CREATIVE PLACEMAKING FROM THE COMMUNITY UP

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PLACEMAKING AND THE POLITICS OF BELONGING AND DIS-BELONGING
An expanded version of Roberto Bedoya's essay “Creative Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-belonging,” first published on the Arts in a Changing America website. Bedoya was asked to prepare it for the GIA Reader audience and to reflect further on the topic of belonging as it relates to their work as a public funder. 

COLLECTIVE IMPACT FORUM COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TOOLS
The Community Engagement Toolkit shares a series of tools for planning community engagement to be more purposeful, equitable, transparent, and strategic so that community members are true partners for achieving impact. This toolkit includes tools exploring these areas: Be Result-Driven & Purposeful, Community Engagement Spectrum, Asset-Based Community Development, Equity – Who is at Our Tables?, Equity – Testing Assumptions & Bias, Assessing Audiences, Building Partnerships, Capacity Building, and Change Management.

THE RISE OF CREATIVE PLACEMAKING

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING 101 FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS
Anne Gadwa Nicodemus takes a look at the creative placemaking trend, its research, and how to confirm it's the right road to pursue. 

BREAKING DOWN CREATIVE PLACEMAKING
Across the country, community leaders are talking more and more about the field of creative placemaking. But what exactly does it mean? What kind of impact could it have on your community, and how can you play a role in deciding what happens? This report looks at two examples of creative placemaking, both supported by The Kresge Foundation: the North Collinwood Waterloo Arts District in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Westside neighborhood in Covington, Kentucky.

10 WAYS TO PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY ARTISTS IN THE NEW YEAR
In their weekly blog, Americans for the Arts, takes a look at the several ways communitys, governments, and other leaderships can partner with local artists from making grants more accessible to community artists to Co-creating grant proposals for projects with community artists.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS TO CREATE CHANGE