Tools and Training

Exploring Our Town Insights: Understanding Community
Part of the Exploring Our Town Creative Placemaking resource, this webpage gives recommendations on how…

Workforce Professionals
This webpage houses resources, tools, updates and links intended to assist the nation’s workforce professionals…

Educate and Empower: Tools For Building Community Wealth
This report draws on case studies of 11 different community economic development initiatives from across the…

Americans for the Arts’ Creative Industries reports
These reports help to paint a picture of the impact of the arts on a…

Arts & Economic Prosperity IV
Arts and Economic Prosperity IV (AEPIV) is a study of the nonprofit arts and culture…

Planning for a More Resilient Future: A Guide to Regional Approaches
Every year, people and communities across the United States experience disasters and major disruptions. These…

Coal Atlas 2015
The Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the Earth International have published the first English edition…

Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems
To help U.S. communities better withstand and rebound from the shocks of severe weather, earthquakes…