The creative community builder's handbook

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Table of Contents

How to use this handbook
Ideas behind this book
The role of culture in community building
Community, culture, art, economics, and "place"
Culture, social change, and community development
Ten economic and social development strategies
Building strong economies through arts and culture
Strategy 1: create jobs
Strategy 2: stimulate trade through cultural tourism
Strategy 3: attract investment by creating live/work zones for artists
Strategy 4: diversify the local economy
Strategy 5: improve property and enhance value
Best practices in building strong economies through arts and culture
Building social connections through arts and culture
Strategy 6: promote interaction in public space
Strategy 7: increase civic participation through cultural celebrations
Strategy 8: engage youth
Strategy 9: promote stewardship of place
Strategy 10: broaden participation in the civic agenda
Best practices in using arts and culture to build social connections
Steps for creative community builders
Step 1: assess your situation and goals.
Task 1.1: define the community
Task 1.2: identify your strengths and leadership capacity
Task 1.3: identify community assets
Task 1.4: clarify values and goals
Task 1.5: write a concept paper
Task 1.6: review readiness
Summary
Step 2: identify and recruit effective partners
Task 2.1: identify potential partners
Task 2.2: develop expectations for potential partners
Task 2.3: recruit partners
Summary
Step 3: map values, strengths, assets, and history
Task 3.1: hold the first meeting to establish group commitment
Task 3.2: build group cohesion
Task 3.3: identify assets
Task 3.4: create a map of community assets
Task 3.5: invite contributions from the larger community
Summary
Step 4: focus on your key asset, vision, identity, and core strategies
Task 4.1: review data and narrow list of top community assets
Task 4.2: choose a key community asset
Task 4.3: envision the future
Task 4.5: name your identity
Summary
Step 5: craft a plan that brings the identity to life
Task 5.1: create outcomes
Task 5.2: set goals
Task 5.3: attach measures to outcome targets
Task 5.4: generate a list of activities
Task 5.5: organize action steps and resource needs into a plan
Task 5.6: celebrate your work!
Summary
Securing funding, policy support, and media coverage
Tips to secure funding
Tips for shaping public policy
Tips for getting helpful media coverage.

Edition Notes

"Special thanks to the McKnight Foundation for support of the research, writing, editing, and production of this work."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-256) and index.

Published in
Saint Paul, Minn

Classifications

Library of Congress
HN90.C6 .B685 2006, HN90.C6.B685 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 261 p. :
Number of pages
261

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22380505M
ISBN 10
0940069474
ISBN 13
9780940069473
LCCN
2006010900
Goodreads
1226290

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OL13579216W

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