Innovative and constructive partnerships between different sectors and interests often provide significant progress toward creating sustainability. Partnerships may evolve from successful visioning, inventory, or indicator projects, or they may form around specific issues or areas of concern. This section offers examples and resources for building partnerships.
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Alliance for Regional Stewardship (ARS), 350 Cambridge Avenue, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Tel: 650.614.0230, Fax: 650.614.0240, Email: info@regionalstewardship.org, Website: http://www.regionalstewardship.org. The Alliance is a civic community national network of regional leaders addressing the long-term well-being of their regions in four spheres: new economy, livable community, social inclusion and governance.
Center for Chesapeake Communities, 209 West Street, Suite 201, Annapolis, MD 21401, Tel: 410.267.8595, Fax: 410.267.8597, Email: shall@chesapeakecommunities.org , Website: http://www.chesapeakecommunities.org. The CCC provides local governments in the Chesapeake Bay watershed with technical and financial assistance. It serves as a clearinghouse of models, tools, and strategies pertaining to stormwater management, site planning, pollution prevention, etc. that local governments are successfully utilizing to implement restoration and protection activities. It is building a network of local governments and their partners to build awareness and implementation of sustainable communities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
The Harmony Project, P.O. Box 2165, Charleston, SC 29413, Tel: 843.577.2103, Fax: same, Email: mgoodwin@cerf.net , Website: http://www.hpchas.org. The Harmony Project is a non-profit partnership which advocates sustainability and is a catalyst for sustainable development and sustainable building design
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED), 433 Chestnut Street, Berea, KY 40403, Tel: 606.986.2373, Fax: 606.986.1299, Email: info@maced.org , Website: http://www.maced.org. MACED provides opportunities and resources to help citizens build sustainable, healthy, equitable, democratic, and prosperous communities in Kentucky and Central Appalachia. It combines research and public policy analysis with technical assistance and financial investments to stimulate development that benefits low-income people.
Program for Community Problem Solving (PCPS), 1319 F Street, NW, Suite 204, Washington, DC 20004, Tel: 202.783.2961, Fax: 202.347.2161, Email: billpotap@aol.com , Website: http://www.ncl.org/ncl/pcps.htm. PCPS, a program of the National Civic League, assists communities in using collaborative approaches for a wide array of undertakings, such as long-range planning, service delivery, conflict resolution, program implementation, and problem solving.
The Heartland Center for Leadership Development, 941 O Street, Suite 920, Lincoln, NE 68508, Tel: 402.474.7667, Fax: 402.474.7672, Email: vluther@unlinfo.unl.edu , Website: http://www.4w.com/heartland. The Heartland Center develops local leadership that responds to the challenges of the future and researches practical resources and public policies for rural community survival.
The Sonoran Institute, 7650 E. Broadway, Suite 203, Tucson, AZ 85710, Tel: 520.290.0828, Fax: 520.290.0969, Email: si_info@sonoran.org, Website: http://www.sonoran.org The Sonoran Institute promotes community-based strategies that preserve the ecological integrity of protected lands, and at the same time meet the economic aspirations of adjoining landowners and communities.
Sustainable Racine, P.O. Box 725, Racine, WI 53401-0725, Tel: 414.632.6440, Website: http://www.sustainable-racine.org. Sustainable Racine is a comprehensive sustainable community initiative established to help bring to reality a vision of what the residents of Racine, WI, would like Racine to be.
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Action Coalition for Global Change. Building A Sustainable Community: An Organizer's Handbook. (California: Action Coalition for Global Change ). This handbook can be used as a primer to educate people on sustainability or as a guide to create a full sustainable community project. To obtain this resource contact ACGC at: 415.341.1126.
Kaye, Gillian and Tom Wolff, eds. From the Ground Up!. (AHEC/Community Partners, 1995). This interactive workbook on coalition building and community development provides worksheets and has an easy-to-follow format. To obtain this resource contact the Center for Living Democracy, 289 Fox Farm Road, P.O. Box 8187, Brattleboro, VT 05304; Tel: 802.254.1234; Fax: 802.254.1227; Email: info@livingdemocracy.org .
McDougall, Harold M. "Community Building in Partnership", (ch7). Black Baltimore: A New Theory of Community. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1993). This excerpt tells how Baltimore's mayor, Baltimoreans United in Leadership (BUILD), and the Enterprise Foundation attempted a broad-based, comprehensive renovation of an entire neighborhood. This resource can be found online at: http://www.cpn.org/sections/topics/community/index.html.
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Brownsville Eco-Industrial Park, Brownsville, Texas.
Colonias Program, College Station, Texas; A university department is assisting the residents of substandard sites that house several hundred thousand minority workers, by building community resource centers, which provide services.
Tri-State Implementation Council, Sandpoint, Idaho; Federal and state agencies established a community-based coordinating council to improve water quality in a key river basin, through education, treatment, and land use initiatives.
United Nations, Habitat Conference Follow-up, Website: http://www.un.org/Conferences/habitat/unchs/press/bestpr.htm. A summary of best practices featured at Habitat II.
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