"Community" means you're all about including and considering all citizens, and creating a warm-blooded infrastructure to meet the challenges of urban living and celebrate its benefits.

Community Building & Community Organizing -- A new model of organizing called "family focused community building." With an organizing/capacity-building component, the community development movement can build the desperately needed political will - and muscle - to change policies that impede the progress of low-income communities.

National Community Building Network The National Community Building Network is an alliance of locally driven urban initiatives working to reduce poverty and create social and economic justice.

Community planning How to resolve any issue in your community.

Community Building Institute (CBI)Founded to help communities improve the way they conduct public business to be more inclusive, more collaborative, and more effective.

ARC - Community Building - All communities need support, training, technical assistance and leadership development to thrive. Atlanta Regional Commission efforts help communities build common values and promote collective goals.

Signs of Community Building - Like many other desirable places to live within commuting distance of major cities, rapid growth shapes the Phoenixville - Kimberton area and threatens some of the qualities that make it a good place to move. This conference revealed the importance of community collaboration.

The Biodiversity Project shares inspiring stories of everyday Americans working to make a difference for biodiversity. Did you know that Lake Tahoe, Nevada, planned its garbage collection with black bears in mind, or that Key West, Florida re-thought its approach to stormwater run-off in order to better protect the nearby coral reefs? See "Great Communities"

The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health: http://www.annenbergfoundation.org

The Community Energy Cooperative is a nonprofit membership organization that enables communities to control their energy use and costs and to benefit from changes in energy technology and regulations. http://www.energycooperative.org/energy-smart-pricing-plan.php

Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, is an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization. Our staff of researchers, editors, and consumer advocates brings you in-depth information on matters that affect your health, your money, and your well-being: http://www.consumersunion.org

The New England Coalition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, with Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, have released an eight-point program to prevent overweight that includes attention to workplaces, social environments, and urban planning that encourages active lifestyles. Willett Obesity Control Strategic Plan

One Economy is a national non-profit organization created to bring access to technology into the homes of low-income people around the country. We use that technology to connect low-income people to information and tools they can use to build assets and improve their lives. http://www.one-economy.com/

Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations is dedicated to advocacy, policy development and technical assistance for CDCs and other organizations in their efforts to rebuild communities and revitalize neighborhoods: http://www.pacdc.org/

Since 1974, Philadelphia Green has worked in partnership with neighborhood residents, community organizations, and city agencies, to create community gardens and greenspaces as a community building tool: http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/phlgreen/index.html

The Sixteenth Street Community Health Center in Milwaukee, WI, is going beyond traditional health care models to link the environment, the economy, and the community to make a difference in the livability of neighborhoods and overall family health. ADJH_Article.pdf

The USC Center for Sustainable Cities engages in multidisciplinary research and education on the environmental, social, and economic sustainability challenges facing metropolitan regions, and contributes to the development of public policy that improves the natural and human environment of cities. http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/ESPE/about_our_mission.html

The Wireless Community Networks (WCN) project, an effort of the Center for Neighborhood Technology and its partners, uses wireless technologies in an innovative network design to provide low-cost broadband connectivity and related opportunities such as job searching capability and skill development, to underserved households, community groups, and small businesses. http://wcn.cnt.org/