Budget Basics and What is Economic Development and What Can Citizens do to Contribute? | CEDI 06/03/2013

• Building and Connecting Communities for the Future | World Future Society
  This eventually will lead to a new concept, “mobile networked governance.” Community leaders will develop knowledge-connection processes that harness the vast resources of disparate community members. We’ll soon see a shift from radical individualism to many new levels of deep collaboration. Ultimately, this mobile networked governance will be transformational, creating a new decision-making structure that engages as many people in the community as are interested.
  Tags: Article, future, economic development, community building, crowdsourcing
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Budget Basics
• National Priorities Project is a national non-profit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to making complex federal budget information transparent and accessible so people can prioritize and influence how their tax dollars are spent. Read on to learn more!
  Tags: budget, federal, budgeting, Participatory Budgeting
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• What is Economic Development and What Can Citizens do to Contribute? | CEDI
  When most people think about economic development, the first thing that often comes to mind is, real estate, infrastructure and the recruitment of businesses. Although, these are indeed elements of economic development, there is more to economic development than only those types of actions. Economic Development generally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of policymakers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health. The scope of economic development includes the process and policies by which a nation or region improves the economic, political, and social well being of its people. Essentially, a nation’s economic development is directly related to its human development, which includes, among other things, health, education, culture and job creation.
  Tags: economic development, well-being, community empowerment, community engagement
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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URBN DSGN | In Pursuit of Better Cities. 05/28/2013

• URBN DSGN | In Pursuit of Better Cities.
  URBN DSGN is a collaboration between professionals and community leaders, doers and thinkers, and every day citizens. We function in pursuit of better cities.
  Tags: design, urban design, community design, community building, collaboration
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Participatory Budgeting in the United States: What Is Its Role? - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly 05/26/2013

• Participatory Budgeting in the United States: What Is Its Role? - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly
  "Participatory Budgeting is perhaps the greatest innovation in municipal governance in the United States in the last five years, and it has grown rapidly. Originating in Porto Alegre, Brazil—where 20 percent of the municipal budget is now allocated this way—PB has spread quickly throughout Brazil and Latin America over the past two decades. It’s currently in place in roughly fifteen hundred municipalities throughout the world, but U.S. municipalities have been late adopters." This is one of the best community empowerment tools out there. Trouble is most communities aren't empowered enough to implement it.
  Tags: Participatory Budgeting, community governance, innovation, Article
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Pipeline | Creative Crowdsourcing | Georgia Tech and Cul-de-Sac Poverty - NYTimes.com 05/22/2013

• Pipeline | Creative Crowdsourcing | Georgia Tech
  Pipeline is free, open-source software for crowdsourcing creative projects.It's based on 5+ years of social computing research by a team at Georgia Tech.Learn about Pipeline's features, try our demo, and tell us what you think. You can also follow the latest updates on our blog.
  Tags: pipeline, crowdsourcing, online, collaboration, creative
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Cul-de-Sac Poverty - NYTimes.com
  In 2011, the suburban poor outnumbered the urban poor by three million; from 2000 to 2011, the number of poor people soared by 64 percent in the suburbs, compared with 29 percent in cities. Today nearly one-third of all Americans are poor or nearly poor. One in three poor Americans live in the suburbs. If you’re poor in the Seattle, Atlanta or Chicago regions, you’re more likely than not living outside the city limits.
  Tags: Article, poverty, suburban poor, economics
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Infographic: The Healthy Farm | Union of Concerned Scientists 05/17/2013

• Infographic: The Healthy Farm | Union of Concerned Scientists
  Industrial food production, which currently dominates U.S. agriculture, is a dead end. It damages air, water and soil, harms rural communities, and limits future productivity.But there's a better way. Scientists call it agro-ecological agriculture. We call it healthy farms. Healthy farms can be just as productive as industrial farms—and a lot more sustainable.
  Tags: infographic, farm, UCS, scientists
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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LA2050 - My LA2050 05/15/2013

• LA2050 - My LA2050
  Tags: community building, innovation, LA2050
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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A Crash Course on Creativity : Center for Social Innovation (CSI) 05/08/2013

• A Crash Course on Creativity : Center for Social Innovation (CSI)
  Whether we are struggling to generate fresh ideas or staring at problems with no solutions in sight, the spark of creative genius often seems out of reach. In this audio lecture from Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Nonprofit Management Institute, Stanford Professor Tina Seelig discusses how we can unlock our creative genius through a set of tools and conditions we each have in our control—our “innovation engine.” Based on real-world examples and a dozen years of experience teaching courses on creativity and entrepreneurship in the Stanford School of Engineering, Seelig challenges traditional assumptions about creativity to show us how we can seek out the right resources and environment to fuel our innovation engines. She contends that just as the scientific method demystifies the process of discovery, there is a formal process for unlocking the pathway to innovation.
  Tags: innovation, creativity, SSIR
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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