Idea: Community Empowerment Study Group

'This page is devoted to collecting resources for a group to use towards understanding community in the broadest sense. It will include the study of  traditional "community development" of physical community assets as well as the human assets that make communities valuable socially, politically, and economically. It will also collect study options that relate to empowering communities through community self-awareness, individual participation, and leadership.'

What Is A Community?

Google Search on "What is a community?"

• http://infed.org/mobi/community/

Mutual Aid

Google Search on "Mutual Aid"

Mutual Aid Hub

Asset Based Community Development

• Building Communities from the Inside Out A Key Book!!!
• A basic Capacity Inventory from the book "Building Communities from the Inside Out"
• A 96 page guide to conducting capacity inventories by the authors of Building Communities - "This guide is written for people working in communities and struggling to understand how best to capture the potential of all citizens."

Google search on "Asset Based Community Development"

Community Participation

Google search on "Community Participation"

Google Search: "Community Engagement Strategies Assessment Worksheet"

• Video advice from a 6-yr old: http://www.fahe.org/blog/straight-talk-faith/
• Community Engagement Assessment Worksheet

Source: Building Movement Project

• Article: Coming To Terms With “Latinx” by Arianna Davis

Community Development

Google search on "Community Development"

Google search on "Community Development Philadelphia"

Communities Creating Health

• SSRI Report
• #creatinghealth on twitter
• The Creating Health Movement (more than a supliment company)
• The Children's Hospital Association (CHA)
• North Philadelphia Grassroots Community Summit

Group Process

Google search on "Group Process"

Wikipedia's Category on Group Processes

Meeting Facilitation

Google search on "Meeting Facilitation"

• Facilitation-related Categories in Wikidelphia
• List of "Is-Facilitation Method" in Wikidelphia

Appreciative Inquiry

Google Search on "Appreciative Inquiry"

Decision Making

Google search on "Decision Making"

• Decision-related Categories on Wikidelphia

Project Management

Google search on "Project Management"

Strategic Planning

• Google Search on Strategic+Planning+Philadelphia
• Building Blocks for Strategic Planning

Social Networks

Google search for "Social Networks"

Networked Social Work

• The Connecting People Study

Google search on "Networked Social Work"

Social Capital

Google search on "Social Capital"

Social Innovation

• Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)

Education and Life Long Learning

Google search on "Education and Life Long Learning"

Dunning-Kruger Effect

• The Psychological Effect Creating “Confidently Ignorant” Voters
• Wikipedia Article: Dunning–Kruger effect

See Also

• North Philadelphia Grassroots Community Summit
• Also see Bob Altemeyer's writing on Authoritarianism
• Idea: Diffusion of Social Innovation
• Community Images Collection
• LiquidFeedback