RESOURCES & LINKS

Ashoka
Ashoka's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated, and to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. Ashoka identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs — extraordinary individuals with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities — supporting them, their ideas and institutions through all phases of their careers.

Community Arts Network
Promotes information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based art.

Creative Clusters
Creative Clusters is the international conference, network and events program for people working in the development of creative industries. Participants are interested in regeneration and development projects that deliver outcomes in both cultural and economic terms.

Handmade in America
Handmade in America's founder and executive director, Becky Anderson, is a true visionary. Her organization has helped transform Western North Carolina's struggling economy through cultural heritage tourism. Handmade is empowering local artisans and tradition bearers -- and the communities where they live -- through economically and environmentally sustainable strategies.

Liveable City Project
The main aim of this project is to improve the public space (spatial domain) in historic city centers of Europe by looking at it in a coordinated way, and to balance the need to maintain and promote the heritage of the city with the demands of everyone who lives in, works in or visits the city.

Partners for Livable Communities
This organization "gets it." Partners is a national, nonprofit organization working to restore and renew our communities. Partners has over twenty-five years of experience in solving community problems by providing information, leadership and guidance that help communities help themselves.

The Power of Culture
The Power of Culture is a Web site about culture and development. It reviews art and cultural expressions in conjunction with human rights, education, the environment, emancipation and democratization. The site offers a list of projects, initiatives and objectives of Dutch organizations active in this area, but also reports on the part played by cultural organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Southeast Europe. News and background information illustrate how culture is inextricably entwined with ethics and policy. The Power of Culture also points the way to other online sources, media and organizations.

Project for Public Spaces
At the PPS Web site, find out about PPS's innovative programs around placemaking, public markets, parks and transportation, but also numerous articles and other free resources about how to plan or transform the kinds of public spaces that build strong communities. Bordercross is proud to be a member of PPS.

Rebuilding Place in the Public Space
The blog of my friend and colleague Richard Layman. He writes about placemaking and all that makes it work -- historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts and cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism and destination development, and quality of life advocacy. His blog has links to numerous organizations and projects connected to the kinds of work Bordercross engages in.

Traditional Arts Program Network (TAPNet)
Access information about federal and national folk and traditional arts programs, agencies, grant opportunities, reports and personal Web sites. The site also features sections on folk arts and education, documentation of folk arts, and links to museums and archives.

Who Owns Native Culture?
Resources for understanding current debates about the legal status of indigenous art, music, folklore, biological culture and sacred places.