UK national organization dedicated to promoting the vitality and viability of small towns.

British Petroleum subsidiary working to redevelop the former Llandarcy Oil refinery in Neath, South Wales, through loans and partnerships.

Department of University of Wisconsin Extension creates, applies and transfers multidisciplinary knowledge to help people understand community change and identify opportunities.

Builds capacity in Canadian community based organizations by providing technical expertise and resources. Offers details about training, technical assistance, and research.

A bipartisan, nonprofit alliance of U.S. mayors, corporate executives, university presidents and nonprofit leaders, that works with local and national policy-makers to advance the economic competitiveness of cities.

Providing internet solutions for housing and community development organizations. Also includes useful links page.

National CDFI membership organization offering promotion, training, research, and networking. United States.

Helps public and private leadership groups develop and implement collaborative strategies for creating high-performing economic communities.

Membership organization providing capacity building, networking, development, and research. United Kingdom.

A program of the United States Treasury Department. Includes funding opportunities, technical assistance, awards, and links.

Association for community development practitioners and citizen leaders around the world.

Membership organization supporting professionals working in community development venture capital by providing training, publications, networking, and consulting. Promotes the idea CDVC to traditional funders.

Nonprofit organization that provides access to funds for community development lenders.

Extensive collection of writings on downtowns and urban redevelopment.

Leads community-wide economic development efforts by bringing community leaders together to discuss public policy, technology, and finding collaborative projects to encourage financial growth.

University of Oklahoma program providing professional economic developers with training, knowledge, and tools.

Dedicated to improving community and economic development programs by adapting and incorporating best practices into the initiative's operations.

A non-profit corporation that offers training in support of organizations and projects that provide low-income families and communities with resources they need to become more self-sufficient.

Guide to effective involvement of business in partnerships for local economic development and skills.

Part of a government initiative to bring about long lasting regeneration in the UK's most deprived neighborhoods.

Promotes vital and livable urban centers by providing support to business improvement districts and communities. Includes case studies and various resources for planners, developers, and business owners.

Encourages the exchange of information, experience, and best practices on urban development and renewal across the world. Provides an annual conference, publications, newsletters, and networking opportunities.

The National Community Development Initiative helps improve the vitality of urban neighborhoods by supporting community development corporations.

Market research firm specializing in market analysis and economic development services for downtown revitalization projects. [requires Flash]

Dedicated to improving community and economic development extension programs and professionals. Board and committee members, conference information, and a mailing list.

Provides training, information, networking, and representation for regional development organizations in small metropolitan and rural areas of the United States.

Membership organization of community development financial institutions. Capital, technical assistance, and development services supporting the revitalization of economically-disadvantaged urban, rural, and reservation-based communities. United States.

Not-for-profit organization acting as advocates for, and supporting local community credit unions in over 40 states.

Resources and information on how to preserve and revitalize historic downtowns and main streets. Part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

An alliance of non-profit and community based organizations providing current information, advocacy, and support.

A national American campaign to prevent abandonment, redevelop vacant properties and revitalize existing communities.

Online community resourcing and support center. Helping communities support each other with an emphasis on the non-virtual.

A nonprofit organization founded in Baltimore, Maryland by volunteers dedicated to providing urban communities with access to professional, conceptual architectural, landscape, design and planning services.

Minnesota organization working to build partnerships between community-based organizations and local colleges and universities around community building activities.

Information relating to a host of community-revitalization efforts from across the United States, focused on revitalizing declining neighborhoods by stabilizing home ownership and preserving housing affordable to low- and moderate-income families.

Information about policy analyses, advocacy, training courses and workshops.

Am initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation helping to transform troubled neighborhoods into safe environments.

Consultancy specializing in economic, social and environmental regeneration.

Community development bank lending to Pacific Northwest businesses involved with sustainably harvested timber, pollution prevention, water treatment, and affordable housing. Banking and saving products. United States.

A program of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. Provides research and best practices on community development issues.

State-wide trade association of non-profit, community-based development corporations within the state's economically distressed communities.

Consultants specializing in building strategic partnerships, creating policy, developing strategies and securing the financial resources necessary to promote quality economic development and housing opportunities within communities.

Provides consulting services to clients working in, or seeking to start, worker-owned and community-based businesses.

Works to improve quality of life by fostering collaborative public private partnerships.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics.

An academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment.

An independent body (with government backing) that promotes and supports business incubation in Britain.

Provides information and educational programs, and conducts research on economic and social issues that are relevant to communities and community leaders.

An umbrella group for British public-private partnerships devoted to achieving redevelopment strategies for key towns and cities.

Offers support and advice to rural communities across Britain whose village shop or other retail service is threatened.

Hopes to strengthen rural communities by facilitating development research with universities and communities.