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.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS TO CREATE CHANGE

LEVERAGING INVESTMENTS IN CREATIVITY
This ten year initiative to reinvent arts funding in the United States came to a close in 2013. A series of short documentaries chronicling four of the grantees around the country were commissioned: Urban Bush Women in Brooklyn, NY; The Nickelodeon Theater in Columbia, SC; the Montana Arts Council; and Los Cenzontles in San Pablo, CA. The first and last videos in this six-part series explore the vision and premises of this groundbreaking project in cultural philanthropy.

WEBINAR SERIES FOR CREATING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: ARTS + PUBLIC HEALTH IN AMERICA
This webinar series will present arts in public health program examples that address five critical public health issues - collective trauma, racism, social isolation and exclusion, mental health, and chronic disease - as well as new resources for cross-sector collaboration and program building. ​

MUNICIPAL ARTIST PARNERSHIPS