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/

Community Participation

Google search on "Community Participation"

Video advice from a 6-yr old: http://www.fahe.org/blog/straight-talk-faith/

Community Development

Google search on "Community Development"

Asset Based Community Development

Google search on "Asset Based Community Development"

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

Group Process

Google search on "Group Process"

Wikipedia's Category on Group Processes

Meeting Facilitation

Google search on "Meeting Facilitation"

Appreciative Inquiry

Google Search on "Appreciative Inquiry"

Decision Making

Google search on "Decision Making"

Project Management

Google search on "Project Management"

Networked Social Work

Google search on "Networked Social Work"

Social Capital

Google search on "Social Capital"

Education and Life Long Learning

Google search on "Education and Life Long Learning"