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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