TRENDS IN CREATIVE PLACEMAKING ON PROBLEM PROPERTIES

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE CENTER
Visit the hub for Enterprise's online toolkits, research, and more. Here you will find culture & creativity toolkits, Rose Fellowship documentation and records, webinar archives, and tools to guide you in the fields of housing, health, and recovery.

DESIGN MATTERS TOOLKIT
The Design Matters Toolkit was developed from learnings and research stemming from Enterprise's Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute. Through interviews with developers, funders, architects and policy members, they identified key practices to yield a more people-focused development process that produces better projects for residents and communities.

RURAL PROSPERITY THROUGH THE ARTS & CREATIVE SECTOR
A new action guide offers research insights and lessons learned from states that are harnessing the power of the arts to drive rural prosperity. Produced by the National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices, the guide offers creative policy solutions that draw on home-grown arts and cultural assets to address the urgent problems facing rural America.

VOICES FROM THE FIELD: RURAL ORGANIZERS ON WHAT THEY NEED FROM FUNDERS
As a first step in establishing a framework and priorities, the Integrated Rural Strategies Group commissioned a scan of rural organizing work. From this scan, the group has gained literacy in the organizing work already taking place and further defined the group’s role and intended impact in the landscape of rural organizing. Capturing the voices of organizers on the ground, the scan identified the following priorities: infrastructure and capacity, strategizing for impact, and anti-racist organizing.

SUCCESS MEASURES MEASUREMENT TOOLS
Success Measures offers a comprehensive suite of more than 350 data collection instruments that can be used to measure a wide range of contextual, perceived and observable changes in individuals and communities. Success Measures' newest set of tools measure the health-related outcomes of community development work.

CULTURAL COMMUNITY BENEFITS PRINCIPLES TOOLKIT
The Cultural Community Benefits Principles Toolkit was collaboratively developed by ArtChangeUS with Detroit cultural organizers based on their ongoing efforts to seek accountability, through community benefits agreements, from private developers who receive public support for large-scale development projects. ArtChangeUS and its Core Partners are sharing this toolkit with the wider cultural sector to provide a values-driven and pragmatic approach to shifting our field’s institutional practices while building equitable relationships.

2019 ANNUAL ARTPLACE SUMMIT VIDEO ARCHIVE
Our 2019 Annual ArtPlace Summit in Jackson, MS, gathered our community of colleagues from the field of creative placemaking – projects and organizations we have been able to support, our foundation and government partners, and the researchers, advisors, and colleagues who help shape our work. With Jackson as our cultural backdrop we heard from national and local leaders on some of the most pressing issues facing our field and our communities. You can view a record of the 2019 plenaries here. 

CREATIVITY LIVES HERE
A year-long digital storytelling campaign showcasing the people and places behind creative community development. Have a story about how arts and culture is helping address a challenge or opportunity in your community? Click the image to add YOUR VOICE to the growing collection of grassroots stories from across the United States.

WORKING WITH ARTISTS TO DEEPEN IMPACT
The first in a series of briefs by PolicyLink documenting lessons and stories from ArtPlace America’s Community Development Investments program. This brief will explore the theme of collaborative practice, or how community-based organizations cultivated working relationships with artists, and how they have significantly changed the approaches through which community preservation and revitalization can take place.