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The Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Kids project educates students on the relationship between the” health” of a neighborhood and personal well-being and engages youth in community planning and revitalization projects.

Dakota Dreams used Appreciative Inquiry to identify opportunities and address the serious poverty and economic depression in northwestern North Dakota and create a comprehensive plan for change.

Biddeford is an old mill city working to reinvent itself through a downtown master planning project, using the Heart & Soul Community Planning approach.

The community of Hillsboro, Oregon needed a strategic vision to direct its rapid growth. With the help of Steven Ames planning, they got just that while simultaneously creating a unique model that broke new ground in the way it engaged the community.

A collaboration between Brown University and the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence RI, this project uses storytelling, photo exhibits, and mapping exercises to understand and celebrate the community character of the historic neighborhood.

After an overwhelmingly positive response by community members to a proposed visioning initiative, the Manistee County Community Foundation embarked upon a community-driven process to produce strategies and action steps to guide the county’s future.

Conservationists and advocates in the Borderlands area of RI and CT are stressing the need to “reinvent the village.” These towns are absorbing new growth while conserving and enhancing the natural amenities that make this region unique.

The “Vision Vessel” was a portable, multimedia booth set up in the city of Portland, Oregon to provide a space for residents to voice their ideas and record their comments about the city as it grows and changes in the 21st century.

Concerned by limited amount of parks and open space in many cities across the U.S., the Trust for Public Land founded their Parks for People program to ensure that all citizens, especially children, have access to outdoor space.

Envision Utah is a “Public/Private Partnership formed to guide the development of a broadly and publicly supported Quality Growth Strategy - a vision to protect Utah's environment, economic strength, and quality of life.”