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Appendix
We’ve provided these extra resources for those who want to dig deeper and learn more.
1. Community Economic Development Resources:
Excellent Websites for downloadable manuals, checklists, strategies, guidelines, etc.
- Enterweb Communty Development A “Linking website that connects you to many other websites which address Community Economic Development issues around the globe.
- Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Specific Country Background Data This organization’s set of links to everything you need to know about a country is unparalleled.
- Center for Community Enterprise Contains essential resources such as the Community Resilience Manual of Techniques for Community Recovery and Renewal which can be downloaded from the site.
- Community Tool Box Promoting community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources.
- Praxis: Provides access to a vast array of archival resources on international and comparative social development. The intellectual commitment of PRAXIS is to the promotion of positive social change through informed action.
- Methods to Strengthen Communities: This is Phil Bartle’s website – creator of great handbooks. It provides additional resources to raise the capacity of low-income neighbourhoods & communities, with grass roots protocols, tools, & handbooks for getting projects up & running & gaining local support
- Livelihoods: Institute of Development Studies is one of the world's leading organisations for research, teaching and communications on international development to create sustainable local development
- World Bank Poverty Network: Provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners
- Institute for Social & Economic Development: Publications on Poverty Programs
- Peace Corps Library: Information about issues and countries. Find out what Americans in the Peace Corps are working in the country. Contact them and find out how to partner/support their efforts and create alliances with local organization with which they have a relationship
- Oxfam International: A World Leader in providing food and poverty programs to needy people
2. Excellent Books
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