Center for Community Builders

Founding Partners

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

Warren/Conner Development Coalition

Marshall Heights Community Development Organization

NEWSED Development Corporation

Germantown Settlement & Germantown Community Collaborative

Urban Strategies Council

 

The Center for Community Builders (CCB) is the joint effort of six community building organizations to improve outcomes for residents of low-income communities by:

  • Strengthening the capacities of resident leaders and other practitioners
  • Elevating their voices and influence in the community building field.

The CCB will work to strengthen practitioners' capacities for peer-to-peer support through:

  • Providing practitioner-led training and technical assistance
  • Supporting practitioners in developing effective program and practice tools
  • Developing innovative financing strategies and sustainability planning
  • Providing direct financial support to local efforts

For a brief overview of the CCB, see our brochure. For more detailed description of the CCB and its three Institutes, see the Executive Summary of our concept paper.

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Building Powerful Neighborhood Organizations-The Detroit Blueprint. 

The Center for Community Builders (CCB) is unveiling Building Powerful Neighborhood Organizations: The Detroit Blueprint as the first in a series of tools that are designed to share information and resources that have been “field-tested,” refined, and improved over years of experience. It is the CCB’s belief that sharing these tools and these experiences gives community builders a chance to learn from one another, and apply lessons learned in one neighborhood to other areas, strengthening the community building field as a whole. Cover and table of contents available here. For purchasing, please contact the administration assistant at admindesk at urbanstrategies.org or (510) 893-2404. Individual books are $20 each plus shipping and handling. $12 each for orders of 10 or more.

More Information

Practitioner Tools Development Institute

The CCB is preparing three toolkits that will provide information, models and tools on a range of topics critical to community building practitioners. The toolkits will help to guide practitioners through event planning, developing mini-grant programs and organizing block clubs in their neighborhoods. For more information, click here to see a brief summary of the project.

Community Building Assessment and Evaluation Tools Project

This project will develop community-friendly assessment and evaluation training materials for community residents, organizers, and the staff of community-based organizations. For more information, click here for a PowerPoint overview of the concept paper and here to see a brief summary of the project.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Liz Johnson, lizj at urbanstrategies.org, (510)893-1377

672 13th Street, Oakland CA, 94612