Land of Opportunity 12/19/2013

• Land of Opportunity
  LandofOpportunity is an experimental web platform that explores post-crisis community (re)building in America. The innovative platform merges compelling multimedia storytelling with curated data, research, and calls to action in one collaborative interactive space. Currently in Beta
  Tags: storytelling, multimedia, data, research, collaboration, curation
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America - The Washington Post and Recalibrating a sustainability narrative | Charles Landry 08/31/2013

• Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America - The Washington Post
  “The shift in what employers think of as their role not just in the community but [relative] to their workforce is quite radical, and I think it has led to the last two jobless recoveries,” said Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
  Tags: shareholder, value, goal, Economic, corporate values, Article
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
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• Recalibrating a sustainability narrative | Charles Landry
  We face an entangled communications challenge. Becoming a sustainable city is less a technological issue than one of mindset, understanding and behavioural. Too many people still believe there is no problem. How can this be overcome? Do we approach it by engendering fear, cajoling, or persuasion? By providing evidence of the threats or examples of good practices? Do we jolt people into focus by ascending graphs of problems or imagery of iconic events like Katrina or Superstorm Sandy? It is best to show how the shift is doable and already happening and that those at the forefront have a better life economically and socially. The image of the sustainable city needs to feel as emotionally satisfying as the lure of consumer culture.
  Tags: Article, sustainability, wicked problem, complexity
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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LLGA | Cities pilot the future 07/11/2013

• LLGA | Cities pilot the future
  LLGA offers you a program to inspire your city, build international recognition, gain in-depth market intelligence, learn from other leading cities and create growth opportunities for local businesses. Every year we interview 300+ cities to select the most committed partner cities for the LLGA program.By identifying opportunities for improvements early on in the process and inviting a market response, LLGA delivers an average of 10 times more intelligence on inspiring new solutions. Pilots are proven to deliver an important learning experience to city leaders and other stakeholders.
  Tags: cities, innovation, sustainability, ROI, future
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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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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Results Based Community Planning and Welcome to LCSA - Local Community Services Association 05/07/2013

• Results Based Community Planning
  Results Based Community Planning implements RBA™ population accountability within a local community. It is …..- Working with a cross section of members of a local community (eg Maitland or Coonamble)- To decide what are the big picture results or outcomes they want for their local community (eg People Belong and are Connected to their Community)- Then work out how they would measure if they had achieved that result (eg Percentage of People with an Effective Neighbourhood Network)- To consider what factors effect that measure and how the local community is going against that measure at the moment- And brainstorm potential partners and potential strategies that could be undertaken to “improve” this measure (eg increase the percentage of people with an effective neighbourhood network)- With some of the strategies having to be Low Cost or No Cost, and some of them Off the Wall because who knows what just might be possible!!- And it is not just about planning, but then getting on and doing it!
  Tags: community engagement, community planning
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Welcome to LCSA - Local Community Services Association
  The Local Community Services Association (LCSA) is the peak body for Neighbourhood Centres in NSW. Formed in 1974 LCSA supports its members' focus on social inclusion and all facets of community development through resources, networking and advocacy.
  Tags: community services, community engagement, advocacy, networking
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Interactivity Foundation | Engaging citizens in the exploration and development of possibilities for public policy. and LA2050 - Shaping the future of Los Angeles 05/03/2013

• Interactivity Foundation | Engaging citizens in the exploration and development of possibilities for public policy.
  The Interactivity Foundation works to enhance the process and expand the scope and health of our public discussions by bringing people together in small group discussions of broad topics of public policy concern. Our Fellows conduct Project Discussions that engage separate panels of selected generalists and specialists on a public policy topic for a year or more of private (or “sanctuary”) discussions to develop and explore multiple policy possibilities, which are then worked into a Discussion Report. We also conduct and sponsor shorter series (3-4 sessions) of small group Public Discussions, which are open to all interested participants and use the possibilities from our Discussion Reports as the starting point for further exploration and development. Finally, we collaborate with certain college faculty to develop and support facilitated, student-centered Classroom Discussions.
  Tags: NCDD, deliberation, citizens, interactivity, public, discussion, community engagement
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Civil Society Politics « Power to the People 04/23/2013 (p.m.)

• Civil Society Politics « Power to the People
  You are warmly invited to participate in Civil Society Politics – a new politics that is grounded in communities and social relationships, and an alternative to the failed ideologies of Left and Right. Civil Society Politics is: A movement – which individuals may join. Global in scope – civil society is global, and a movement to strengthen it is needed in every country. Open to members of existing parties and members of none, including those who seek new parties based on civil society.
  Tags: civil society, network
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Democracy at Work Network 04/06/2013 (p.m.)

• Democracy at Work Network
  The Democracy at Work Network (DAWN) is a network of certified peer advisors, all with strong social and professional ties, who cooperate in training themselves and providing technical assistance services to worker cooperatives. Our goals are tomeet the demand for technical assistance and development advice with high-quality services, and increase worker cooperative technical assistance capacity from inside the movement.
  Tags: worker cooperatives, economic development, job creation
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Urban Data Challenge: Zürich | San Francisco | Geneva | Urban Prototyping 03/15/2013 (p.m.)

• Urban Data Challenge: Zürich | San Francisco | Geneva | Urban Prototyping
  Designers, programmers, data scientists, and artists alike are invited to take up the challenge: merge and compare mobility data sets from three cities—San Francisco, Geneva, and Zurich—and draw meaningful insights. Winning projects will showcase the power of open governmental data and facilitate the knowledge exchange between cities. Juried prizes include round-trip airfare to one of the participating cities and funding from Fusepool, the European / Swiss Datapool, for developing the project into an app.
  Tags: urbanism, urban planning, urban design, visualization, innovation, data
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Institute for Local Self-Reliance 03/10/2013 (a.m.)

• Institute for Local Self-Reliance
  The Institute’s mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens.
  Tags: community development
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Hypercities and Haynes LA Research Collections 03/05/2013 (a.m.)

• Hypercities
  Built on the idea that every past is a place, HyperCities is a digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces. Developed though collaboration between UCLA and USC, the fundamental idea behind HyperCities is that all stories take place somewhere and sometime; they become meaningful when they interact and intersect with other stories. Using Google Maps and Google Earth, HyperCities essentially allows users to go back in time to create and explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment.
  Tags: hypercities, visualization, web2.0, research, techtools, technology, education
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Haynes LA Research Collections
  The “Los Angeles Research Collection” empowers citizens and researchers to use the tools of interactive “time mapping.” With HyperCities, you can explore social, cultural, and political history in Los Angeles over time. The site can be accessed from a web-browser in any school, community center, government office, home, and academic setting, allowing citizens to delve into and create their own collections of mappable knowledge and cultural heritage. Community-generated content exists side-by-side with scholar-produced research data, thereby creating new interactions between traditionally separated domains of knowledge.
  Tags: Los Angeles, hypercities, visualization, web2.0, research, techtools, technology, education
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
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About - Citizinvestor 02/13/2013 (p.m.)

• About - Citizinvestor
  HOW IT WORKS MUNICIPALITIES SUBMIT PROJECTS TO CITIZINVESTOR.COM. These are projects that have already been scored, department-approved and only lack one thing - funding. Projects range from building a new park to installing speed bumps or adding a few parking spaces to your neighborhood library. The list of these projects for any city is nearly endless. Currently, these projects sit on a long-list behind other budget priorities, especially now when local government budgets are tighter than ever before. CITIZENS INVEST IN THE PROJECTS THEY CARE ABOUT MOST. For the first time ever, we are giving citizens the opportunity to tell government exactly where they want their dollars spent. Citizens can find projects that their local government has posted on Citizinvestor.com and pledge to invest any amount they wish towards the project. Not only can citizens invest in projects from their local governments, but Citizinvestor also gives citizens the opportunity to petition for new projects that local government either hasn’t thought of or hasn’t approved. ONCE A PROJECT IS 100% FUNDED, THE PROJECT IS BUILT!
  Tags: Participatory budgeting, community funding
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Resources — Pathways Through Participation 01/29/2013 (a.m.)

• Resources — Pathways Through Participation
  What is Pathways through Participation?Pathways through Participation is a two-and-a-half year (April 2009 – Nov 2011) qualitative research project that aimed to improve our understanding of how and why people participate, how their involvement changes over time, and what pathways, if any, exist between different activities.
  Tags: community engagement, community participation
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Home - Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Crowdfunding Offerings, Limited and Main Street Crowd 01/26/2013 (p.m.)

• Home - Ellen MacArthur Foundation
  The circular economy is a generic term for an industrial economy that is, by design or intention, restorative and in which materials flows are of two types, biological nutrients, designed to reenter the biosphere safely, and technical nutrients, which are designed to circulate at high quality without entering the biosphere.
  Tags: Economic, circular economy, sustainability
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Crowdfunding Offerings, Limited
  On April 5, 2012 the Crowdfund Act of 2012 The best solution payday loans was approved. This groundbreaking legislation enables start-ups and existing businesses an opportunity to raise funds for their companies directly from the public who can invest small amounts of money in return for shares in the company. Americans will be allowed to invest in ways that have historically been reserved only for the wealthy. Together, America's entrepreneurs and investors will launch the next great ideas of our time!
  Tags: crowdsourcing, finance, Community
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Main Street Crowd
  Main Street Crowd is designed to bring projects directly to the investors who are most likely to be looking specifically for projects of that kind. We do this with our exclusive network of Clowdz™. Here's how it works:
  Tags: crowdsourcing, finance, Community
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Purdue Center for Regional Development 01/15/2013 (a.m.)

• Purdue Center for Regional Development
  The Purdue Center for Regional Development will foster Indiana becoming the nation's leader in supporting creative, regional approaches to development, that build on three core values:a voluntary approach;the power of data, analysis, ideas and information; and the importance of dialogue, social capital development, and collaborative partnerships.
  Tags: regional economic development, economic development
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• What is a Strategy Net? - Strategy-Nets
  Strategy-Nets is a spin-out from the Purdue Center for Regional Development. The principals of Strategy-Nets understand the dynamics of developing and implementing complex strategies in open networks.The primary challenge of civic leadership today is to create and sustain adaptive regional economies. By definition, an adaptive economy has the built-in ability to renew itself by continuously developing new strategies to thrive.
  Tags: strategy net, regional economic development, complexity, complex strategies, open networks
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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