CREATIVE PLACEMAKING FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS
This report frames eight reasons to do creative placemaking and strategies for getting started. It also features case studies of how these strategies are being used by three community development organizations that are leading this practice in the field.

CREATING PLACE: THE ART OF EQUITABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING
A multimedia collection of explorations, reflections, challenges, and offerings to the national dialogue around creative placemaking, created by ALTERNATE ROOTS members. Start by downloading the Creating Place digital book which contains an excerpt or overview of each Creating Place article, film, and podcast, as well as links to where you can see more.

NATIONAL OPERA CENTER OF AMERICA'S INTRODUCTION TO CIVIC PRACTICE
Without shared spaces to bridge divides, develop empathy and be pushed beyond the comfort zones of personalized news feeds, democracy will break down. The National Opera Center America lays out it's civic practice responsibilities.

RURAL PLACEMAKING: MAKING THE MOST OF CREATIVITY IN YOUR COMMUNITY (A RURAL VOICES ISSUE)
This issue of Rural Voices examines Creative Placemaking as it is practiced in rural communities. The term “creative placemaking” is only about a decade old, but rural community organizations have long taken on community-building endeavors that have included the arts. Creative placemaking offers the explicit recognition that arts and artists, when fully engaged with local stakeholders, are often a gel or a catalyst toward sustained community betterment and economic growth.

NACO CREATIVE PLACEMAKING TOOLKIT FOR COUNTIES
NACo, in partnership with Americans for the Arts and with support from the NEA has launched the Creative Counties Placemaking Initiative to support counties as they work to identify and strengthen ways to integrate arts into solutions to local challenges.

THE NEXT GENERATION DIGITAL EXCHANGE
This series draws on the power of connection to bridge further conversation across the regions, sectors, and place-based philosophies that make the work of creative placemaking so essential to the future of our rural places. Roughly every three weeks, these Digital Exchanges offered an opportunity for folks to come together and engage with leaders working across the dynamic range of fields that compose the foundation of rural creative placemaking.

FIND AN ARTIST TOOLKIT
Artists are everywhere, and have enormous capacity to shape the world around us! This toolkit was created by Springboard for the Arts as a tool to help organizations in finding, commissioning and hiring artists to create work. This toolkit walks through different types of calls, budgeting and timeline processes, and sample templates to inspire your work.

GUIDE FOR BUSINESS DISTRICTS TO WORK WITH LOCAL ARTISTS
A free guide for place managers to work with artists on creative placemaking projects. The guide was created for International Downtown Association by Springboard for the Arts from their experience working with artists and consulting on creative placemaking work across the country, the guide contains tools for partnership building between BIDs and artists, collaboration between community stakeholders, budgeting and project management.

SMART GROWTH AMERICA'S CREATIVE PLACEMAKING RESOURCES
Smart Growth is an approach to development that encourages a mix of building types and uses, diverse housing and transportation options, development within existing neighborhoods, and community engagement. There are multiple resources in their website.

TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA'S THE SCENIC ROUTE
Getting started with creative placemaking in transportation? See case studies, different approaches and useful tools.