No two communities are exactly the same. Our skills are meant to assist you in better understanding your community while enabling you to take creative steps in reshaping our tools to meet local needs.
A Theory of Change is a roadmap that assists in planning to achieve a community's goals.
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A free platform to learn how to identify credible information and find reliable sources.
A free course to learn how to use big data to identify and solve community problems.
A free online course offered by GovLab. Develop the skills to create change in your local community.
These free courses empower you with skills needed to better prepare your community for the future.
A free course to make your community more economically prosperous and resilient.
Gathered from our research and real world experiences, our toolbox is meant to provide you with creative approaches to improving your community.
An open-source design library to assist in building better communities.
Community members decide how to spend part of the public budget through a democratic process.
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A tool to help organizations raise funds for community projects.
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An organization that gathers and organizes resources to meet local needs.
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A wide range of resources to support your ability to advance local change.
Advancing community ownership of land to meet local needs.
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A toolkit for philanthropists to engage residents to improve the impact of their investments.
A low cost approach to local job creation by focusing on local entrepreneurs.
A creative approach to having meaningful conversations about the future of your neighbourhood.
Civic Design Library is a crowdsourced data set of civic design resources by Georgetown University.
A special taxing meant to improve local business environments.
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