The Creative Community Builder’s Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture

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Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas in the back of culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You can be aware the arts have an effect on on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies Part 2 provides you with ten concrete strategies for building on the unique qualities of your own community. Each strategy is illustrated by two case studies taken from numerous cities, small towns, and neighborhoods across the United States. You can learn how people from all walks of life used culture and creativity as a glue to bind together people, ideas, enterprises, and institutions to make places more balanced and healthy. These examples are followed in Part 3 with six steps to assessing, planning, and implementing creative community building projects: 1. Assess Your Situation and Goals; 2. Identify and Recruit Effective Partners; 3. Map Values, Strengths, Assets, and History; 4. Focus on Your Key Asset, Vision, Identity, and Core Strategies; 5. Craft a Plan That Brings the Identity to Life; 6. Protected Funding, Policy Beef up, and Media Coverage. Detailed guidance, hands-on worksheets, and a hypothetical community sample walk you through all the process. Each section includes additional resources as well as an appendix listing books, web sites, organizations, and research studies. By understanding the theoretical context (Part 1), learning from case studies (Part 2), and following the six steps (Part 3), you are able to build a more vibrant, creative, and equitable community.

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