• Rural Tracker Polling
• Community Philanthropy Initiative
• A Place in the Country
• The Rural Desk
• Rural Reality Campaign
• CRA Campaign
• Vacant TV Channels
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A FIELD GUIDE TO COMMUNITY BUILDING
A Field Guide to Community Building, a web site and forthcoming publication of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, combines "how-to" information about community development with stories that illustrate the impact of community work. Drawn from combined experiences of more than 40 community development experts, the Field Guide will include a Web site and CD-ROM providing first-person accounts of professionals and volunteers who have worked in hundreds of rural communities throughout the United States. The Center for Rural Strategies is collecting these stories in digital video and helping adapt them for presentation in digital and print formats. The project is part of our efforts to demonstrate how the innovative use of media can help organizations achieve their strategic goals.
THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS
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My hope for the future is that people really begin to see that they have a role to play in delivering their own salvation, that they really are the key to solving the problems in their communities. If I can be of any assistance at all, it's to provide people with examples. To provide them with a mirror, a useful mirror through which they can see what they are doing. Or to see themselves really be geniuses and risk takers in developing their economies, in developing people.
Gordon Goodwin
San Antonio, Texas
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Success [for a community developer] is when the community says: "We don't need you any more. We can do this just as good or better than you can." That's empowerment. And I think that's the essence of community development, the very heart of what we do. We create the potential, I hope, for liberation - human liberation.
Ron Hustedde
Lexington, Kentucky
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