Community Engagement Leadership Institute (CELI) Resources

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Civic Engagement Organizations and Tools
Guest Presentations and Articles
Notable Research, Reports, and Handbooks
CELI Participants Team Presentations
Useful Resources Shared or Created by CELI Participants

Civic Engagement Organizations and Tools

Resources, Studies, and Practitioners

• National League of Cities
• The Deliberative Democracy Consortium
• America Speaks
  
• Everyday Democracy
• International Association for Public Participation
• Institute for Local Government Civic Engagement
  
• The Harwood Institute
• From Their Experience: Community Focus' Ten Tips on Working with the Community

Online Tools

• The Participatory Budgeting Project (the nonprofit behind participatory budgeting in Chicago and New York City)
• e-democracy.org (online tool for facilitating deliberation and discussion online)
• Mindmixer Virtual Town Halls for Municipalities (online tool for creating interactive virtual town halls)
• People and Participation.net (list of useful tools, the costs and resources required and how they are being used)
• The Knight Foundation's Soul of the Community Project (thoughtful and extensive insight into people's attachment to communities and the concept of "social offerings")

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Guest Presentations and Articles

Dr. Madeline Landau:

Race Poverty and the Cities (1988)

Strengthening Connective Infrastructure (2001)

Powerpoint:

• The Crossroads of Community Engagement: Moving from Temporary Tools to Sustained Plans and Systems (Matt Leighninger, 2012)

PDFs:

• Going Regional: Community-Based Regionalism, Transportation, and Local Hiring (Todd Swanstrom & Brian Banks 2007)

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Notable Research, Reports, and Handbooks

Books

Creighton, James L. The Public Participation Handbook: Making Better Decisions Through Citizen Involvement. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005. [Amazon.com]

Leighninger, Matt. The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule is Giving Way to Shared Governance -- and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same. Vanderbilt University Press: 2006. [Amazon.com | Powells.com]

Spectrum of citizen participation

• A Ladder of Citizen Participation (Sherry Arnstein, 1969)

Engaging diverse communities

• Civic Participation in California: How Local Agencies Are Involving the Public, Building Trust and Making Better (Terry Amsler, 2008)

Traditional and online tools

• Using Online Tools to Engage – and Be Engaged by –The Public (Matt Leighninger, 2011)
• Citizenship and Governance in a Wild, Wired World (Matt Leighninger, 2011)
• Connected Communities: Local Governments as a Partner in Citizen Engagement and Community Building (Alliance for Innovation, 2010)
• Public Deliberation: A Manager's Guide to Citizen Engagement (Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer and Lars Hasselblad Torres, 2006)

What are other cities doing?

• Planning for Stronger Local Democracy (Matt Leighninger and Bonnie Mann 2011)
  

Assessing, navigating, and meeting community capacity and needs

• Assessing Community Information Needs (Richard C Harwood, 2011)
• Navigating The Power Dynamics Between Institutions and Their Communities (Byron White, 2009)
• Collaboration is Not Enough (Margaret Weir, Jane Rongerude and Christopher K. Ansell 2008)

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CELI Participants Presentations

Detroit: CELI Presentation

Brooklyn Park: CELI Presentation | Presentation to City Council

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Useful Resources Shared or Created by CELI Participants

Good Beginnings Alliance

Reports and studies on early childhood programs in Hawai’i.

Participatory Budgeting in New York City

Resources, updates, and a participatory online portal for community members to engage in participatory budgeting for their district.

Clear Vision Eau Claire

A county-wide initiative to develop a collaborative vision for Eau Claire, WI. Includes presentations, tools, and plans.

Seattle’s Race & Social Justice Initiative

Racial Equity Toolkit for Policies, Programs, and Budget

A citywide effort to end institutionalized racism and end race-based disparities. Includes resources, such as translation and interpretation policies.

Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity

Features publications and reports on understanding the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic disparities.

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