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Wealth of Online Resources
There is
an enormous amount of valuable online information about community-based
economic development, community building, asset creation,
capital rooting, wealth ownership and models and innovations
at the local level. Similarly, on the security and disarmament
issue, there are numerous online resources.
The National
Center is committed to providing practitioners, researchers,
funders and the media with assistance in accessing this wealth
of resources. Our intent is to continue to build our links
page during the coming months and years. Please send us information
about your own web site or links you have found particularly
helpful. Of course, we also welcome "return" links
that point to our site.
This page
includes links and online resources that are divided into
the following sections:
Community
and Economic Development
Overall
Asset Based Community Development Institute www.nwu.edu/IPR/abcd.html
Features: Full text of articles (through Adobe Acrobat Reader)
on community building issues; introduction of the book "Building
Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and
Mobilizing a Community's Assets," written by John P. Kretzmann
and John L. McKnight; some case studies of economic development.
Grassroots
Economic Organizing (GEO) Newsletter www.geonewsletter.org
Features:
Contains list of back issues/some articles from GEO newsletter
(topics include cooperatives, worker cooperatives, local currency
and time dollars, ESOPs, community supported agriculture,
etc.) Also full text of some articles on cooperatives, urban
agriculture, etc.
Urban Institute
www.urban.org
Features:
Wealth of articles and reports available; full text of many
economic development publications, such as: "Community Building
Coming of Age; " searchable by topic (a search for "CDC,"
for instance, located more than 20 documents).
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Community
Development Corporations
The Ford
Foundation
www.fordfound.org
Features:
Recent reports, including Ford's annual report, and recent
grants awarded, providing clues about the current trend in
funding community development. Ford is one of the largest
funders of CDCs in the country.
Local Initiatives
Support Coalition (LISC)
www.liscnet.org/
Features:
Descriptions of the approaches developed by LISC and the many
successful community development efforts it has helped fund.
LISC is the nation's premier financial intermediary serving
as a conduit between corporations and foundations wishing
to fund local economic development, primarily CDCs.
The National
Congress for Community Economic Development www.cdfi.org/ncced.html
Features:
A minimal site offering only an overview of the organization
and contact information. NCCED is a national association for
CDCs which conducts studies and produces important studies
charting the progress and future development of community
economic development.
Rockefeller
Foundation
www.rockfound.org/
Features:
Reports, grants awarded, and recent news from another funder
of CDCs and other human development organizations.
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Community
Development Financial Institutions
Coalition
of Community Development Financial Institutions
www.cdfi.org/
Features:
CDFI industry information, legislative analyses, policy papers,
and other information. Many highly useful and informative
publications are available in electronic form. Visitors can
also participate in the CDFI Fund Reauthorization online
campaign. Job bank and list of links to CDFI coalition members
also available.
Woodstock
Institute
www.nonprofit.net/woodstock
Features:
Public statements, policy analysis, applied research and useful
links on Community Reinvestment Act, CDFIs, economic development
and other topics.
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Cooperatives
Cooperative
Information Superhighway (from the International Cooperative
Alliance)
www.coop.org
Features:
Comprehensive collection of documents from ICA's official
records on cooperative history,
definitions, and principles; regional reports, current issues,
book reviews, cooperative news;
links to other cooperative organization web sites; page of
cooperative research links.
National
Cooperative Bank
www.ncb.com
Features: Several online publications (some PDF) providing
a general overview of cooperatives in America; statistics
on the top 100 co-ops in the United States; the quarterly
newsletter "Bank Notes" featuring articles on cooperatives
around the country; links organized by cooperative sector
to individual cooperatives and umbrella organizations.
National
Cooperative Business Association
www.cooperative.org
Features:
Individual informational sites on cooperative sectors, including
general overview of each
sector, statistics, contacts, and links. Provides information
on how to subscribe to NCBA's "Cooperative
Business Journal."
University
of California at Davis Center for Cooperatives cooperatives.ucdavis.edu
Features: PDF files of back issues of "Co-Op Quarterly" newsletter;
a list of the center's publications available for purchase.
University
of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
www.wisc.edu/uwcc
Features:
Excellent source of full-text articles, reports, case studies,
and academic papers covering
nearly every cooperative sector, with an exhaustive collection
of documents related to agricultural
cooperatives. Also provides a searchable bibliography, links
to other cooperative organizations,
and links to cooperative discussion groups.
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Local
Currencies
E.F.
Schumacher Society
www.schumachersociety.org
Features: Current news, a description of their local currency
project and links to other resources. This site also has information
about community land trusts.
Ithaca
Hours
www.lightlink.com/hours/ithacahours/
Features:
This site both explains the local currency system approach
pioneered in this small upstate NY town and provides links
or contact information to many other systems.
Time Dollar
Institute
www.cfg.com/timedollar
Features:
Information about the concept of Time Dollars and descriptions
of various local experiments in implementing the idea.
Transaction
Net
www.transaction.net/money/ithaca/
Features:
A recent addition discussing all the ins and outs of various
currency systems.
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Municipal
Enterprise
American
Public Power Association
www.appanet.org/appahome.html
Features:
Background information on public utilities and the issues
and innovations now taking place. online news releases and
comments on pending legislation. Magazines and other publications
and media to start and promote public utilities.
California
Institute for Smart Communities/International Forum for Smart
Communities
www.smartcommunities.org/index.html
Features:
Information and scholarly research about how telecommunications
can be used to promote job creation, economic development,
and an improved quality of life in communities throughout
California (and elsewhere). online
articles and guides such as "Smart Communities Guidebook"
and "The Smart Communities Implementation Guidebook." Guide
to relevant legislation.
Links to other telecommunications /community development sites.
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Nonprofit
Enterprise
Creating
Community Wealth
www.communitywealth.org
Features:
Site is just coming online as of February 1999. Bills itself
as: "the new online home for leading nonprofit and businesses
creating community wealth – resources generated through profitable
enterprise to promote social change." Will eventually feature
case studies, best practices, contacts. Complete the online
information form and CCW will notify when the site is officially
launched in early 1999.
National
Center for Social Entrepreneurs
www.socialentrepreneurs.org
Features:
Case studies of six nonprofits that have successfully launched
income-generating strategies, business, etc; NCSE's consulting
services and programs available to assist nonprofits in beginning
new ventures; useful articles about nonprofit social entrepreneurship
by NCSE staff.
Roberts
Enterprise Development Fund
www.redf.org
Features:
Basic information/brief case studies about nonprofits with
profit-making businesses. REDF's book on nonprofit enterprise,
"New Social Entrepreneurs: The Success, Challenge and Lessons
of Nonprofit Enterprise Creation," can be downloaded in its
entirety.
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Worker/Employee
Ownership
The ESOP
Association
www.the-esop-emplowner.org/
Features:
Current news and contact information for local chapters of
the professional association of ESOP companies.
The ICA
Group
http://www.ica-group.org/
Features:
A number of documents defining and exploring the transition
to employee ownership or a cooperative structure.
National
Center for Employee Ownership
www.nceo.org/
Features:
This extensive site provides excellent background materials
on employee ownership and includes multiple links to professional
and nonprofit organizations in the field.
Ohio Employee
Ownership Center
www.kent.edu/oeoc/index.htm
Features:
Excellent introduction to the Center's full range of activities.
OEOC
is the single most successful state organization at promoting
employee ownership.
Ownership
Associates
www2.shore.net/~oa/index.html
Features:
The Ownership Culture Survey which gauges progress within
worker-owned companies in increasing their participation and
culture of ownership. OA is a professional consulting firm
that works with ESOP companies.
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Security
and Disarmament
Top
Sites for Links
Canadian Forces College
www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/index.html
Features:
The War, Peace and Security Guide boasts over 8,700 links
and we believe it! Armed forces of the world, contemporary
conflicts, international organizations, international relations,
military art and science, military biography, military history,
and peace and disarmament are the major categories, with many
sub-categories within. Covers a huge variety of issues in
disarmament.
ISN — International
Relations and Security Network
www.isn.ethz.ch
Features:
The site provides a comprehensive list of links to governments,
institutes, and international organizations. Links are divided
up by issues, region, or type of organization. One of the
most comprehensive sites for links in security studies on
the web. ISN is coordinated by the Centre for Security Studies
and Conflict Research in Zurich, Switzerland.
University
of Colorado
csf.colorado.edu/peace/academic.html
Features:
Colorado's Communications for a Sustainable Future has put
together a comprehensive list of peace study programs, centers,
institutes and organizations, including links to centers outside
of the United States.
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Top
Sites for Information
Bonn Information
Center for Conversion (BICC)
bicc.uni-bonn.de/
Features:
BICC focuses on defense conversion, including demobilization
and reintegration issues, and problems related to surplus
weaponry. Complete texts of many reports and papers are online.
Don't miss the extensive events databases and the weapons
collection profiles.
British
American Security Information Council (BASIC)
www.basicint.org
Features:
BASIC focuses on European security, nuclear issues, and the
weapons trade. This frequently updated site is brimming with
excellent research papers that are available online in their
entirety. It also offers primary source documents, and an
extremely useful calendar of international events.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
www.ceip.org
Features:
Carnegie's Non-Proliferation Project hosts the pre-eminent
international non- proliferation conference annually, but
also holds frequent non-proliferation roundtables with scholars
and policy makers from all over the globe. The web site includes
transcripts from many of the project's meetings.
Federation
of American Scientists (FAS)
www.fas.org
Features:
The FAS web site is packed with government documents, analysis
and links relating to arms sales monitoring, chemical and
biological weapons, intelligence resources, military analysis,
nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, space policy, and
the Arms Transfer Working Group (ATWG) web site. Be sure to
look at the what's new section, as this site is updated frequently.
Hague Appeal
For Peace
www.haguepeace.org/
Features:
The Hague Appeal for Peace is a civil-society based conference
that aims to delegitimize armed conflict and create a culture
of peace for the 21st century. The four main themes of the
Hague Peace Appeal campaign are: strengthening international
humanitarian and human rights laws and institutions; advancing
the prevention, peaceful resolution, and transformation of
violent conflict; developing and linking disarmament efforts,
including nuclear abolition; and identifying the root causes
of war, and developing a culture of peace.
Monterey
Institute of International Studies
www.miis.edu
Features:
Monterey has three research centers of interest to those working
on disarmament: Center for Non-proliferation Studies (CNS)
— CNS journal The Nonproliferation Review, has selected articles
online. Program for Arms Control, Disarmament and Conversion
(PACDC) — Has a good chronology of events that highlight problems
of small arms and light weapons in regions around the world.
Stimson
Center
www.stimson.org
Features:
Stimson's regularly updated site is full of discussion papers,
reports, and speeches relating to confidence building measures,
cooperative security, chemical and biological weapons, non-proliferation,
nuclear policy, weapons of mass destruction and the UN and
peacekeeping. Check out the publications section!
Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) www.sipri.se/
Features:
This site includes statistics, graphs and research studies
on arms transfers and production, military expenditure and
technology, chemical and biological weapons, European security,
and export controls. Site includes selections from the SIPRI
yearbook, an annual source for comprehensive coverage of armaments,
disarmament and conflict.
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