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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