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.

POLICYLINK'S CREATING CHANGE THROUGH ARTS
Arts and culture are essential for building community, supporting development, nurturing health and well-being, and contributing to economic opportunity. This report highlights both promising and proven practices that demonstrate equity-focused arts and culture policies, strategies, and tools. The report describes the role of arts and culture across the nine sectors. Within each policy chart there are goals, policies, and implementation strategies that can help achieve communities of opportunity. 

VOICES FROM THE FIELD
A collection of videos of advice, guidance, and tips gathered from our creative placemaking colleagues!

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING WHITE PAPER
This was the first white paper by Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa to say that Creative placemaking animates public and private spaces, rejuvenates structures and streetscapes, improves local business viability and public safety, and brings diverse people together to celebrate, inspire, and be inspired.