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JOURNEY TO CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: LESSONS AND INSIGHTS
Reflections, learnings and insights on Creative Placemaking are shared in this series of white papers from The Kresge Foundation’s Arts & Culture team in concert with partners from different fields and sectors. The goal is to help illuminate the foundation’s multi-faceted approach to grantmaking, share lessons learned, identify challenges and opportunities encountered, and encourage conversations in the field. 

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. 

CREATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REPORT & CASE STUDIES

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

BRINGING TOGETHER ARTS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Who has been behind the large increase in financial support for and attention to what has been termed "creative placemaking" over the past couple years, and why? Miriam Axel-Lute takes a look at the key players behind 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.