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Social Innovation and Community Development

This guide is to assist you in researching topics related to the community economic development field.

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Welcome to the Social Innovation and Community Development Guide

This guide is to assist you in researching topics related to the community economic development field. Here you will find information about finding books, ebooks, journals, databases, videos, websites, and more about community development.

This Guide is under construction (updates coming Winter 2026).

Keywords

Use the following keywords to get started searching this subject area:

  • Asset-based approach
  • Budget management
  • Cash flow
  • Community organizing
  • Connectiveism
  • Cooperatives
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Democracy
  • Economic environment
  • Empowerment
  • Ethical living
  • Evaluation
  • Expenditures
  • Facilitation
  • Food security
  • Foundations
  • Gap analysis
  • Gatekeepers
  • Government funding
  • Grants
  • Group dynamics
  • Human resources
  • Information gathering 
  • Institutionalism
  • Leadership
  • Long range planning
  • Mission statement
  • Mentorship
  • NGO (non-governmental organizations)
  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Outcome goals
  • Oligarchies
  • Participatory research
  • Partnerships
  • Planning
  • Poverty
  • Power
  • Protests
  • Public Foundations
  • Rallies
  • Relationship-based Management
  • Rural communities
  • Stakeholders
  • Social action
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Social justice
  • Sustainability
  • Volunteers