- Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA) is a website dedicated to helping prevent housing and neighborhood conditions from deteriorating. NKLA provides tools for accessing property and neighborhood data and works with neighborhood residents, community organizations, and policymakers to mobilize support for community improvement in the Los Angeles area.
- Community Technology and Community Building a research project on the consequences of using asset based community development in a community using a community technology centre.
- PovNet is an internet site for advocates, people on welfare, and community groups and individuals involved in anti-poverty work. It provides up-to-date information about welfare and housing laws and resources in British Columbia, Canada. Behind the website is an extensive network of anti-poverty advocates who exchange information and collaborate using mailing lists on particular topics. PovNet is currently developing an online national network of anti-poverty advocates.
- Rethinking telecentres in the Second World:
Knowledge demands, remittance flows, and microbanks - Scott Robinson proposes using community based internet telecentres to lessen the huge commissions that migrants pay to send remittances back to their home villages. "Mexican migrants in the "north" now send an estimated six billion U.S. dollars a year home to their largely rural based families" and often face commissions of 18%. Telecentres could be sustained by charging a small commission.
- Local Connections: Making the Net Work for Neighbourhood Renewal is a British report from Communities Online and examines how inormation and communication technologies can be used in creative ways and for creative purposes to nurture the potential for deprived communities to take charge, develop their own opportunities and change their fortunes around.
- Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network Worldwide, people working on Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM), as practitioners, managers and researchers, are talking about an urgent need for capabilities that enable direct communication between them. Such CBNRM networking capabilities would make it possible for people to exchange experiences, manage relevant knowledge, and support learning across countries, sectors, cultures, and languages, and in this way achieve better results.
- Catalytic Communities empowers and engages low-income communities around the world to develop their own local improvements by providing a set of online tools to foster and strengthen leadership and innovation in their communities.
- Sustainable Communities Network. It is in the interest of urban and rural residents to work together in mutually supportive ways. In this section are examples of cooperative efforts in land preservation, sustainable agriculture, growth management, appropriate development of rural resources, improved trading and tourism, and development of low-impact regional planning and transportation systems.
- The aim of Rural Renaissance is: "To help rural communities in the South West respond to and influence economic change, by supporting the development and implementation of sustainable projects that use innovation and enterprise to: create prosperity and generate employment; improve delivery and access to services; and realise the value of the environment as an economic asset."
- Community Development Society
- Rural Boomtowns: the relationship between economic development and affordble housing
- CED links
- Urban and rural renewal links from Ireland.
- Minnesota Library links
- http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/ecdev.html
- http://caster.ssw.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html
- Oregon based Rural Resource Center useful for reviewing US rural development programs.