Browse Content: Resource, values-based planning

The Heart & Soul Community Planning Implementation Guides provide resources for taking action on issues, including issue introductions, methods, case studies, and policy examples.

One of the most important aspects of Heart & Soul Community Planning, this chapter on Outreach and Communications explains how to reach out to the entire community to foster effective relationships and discussions.

This chapter in the Heart & Soul Community Planning Handbook provides tips for engaging youth in community planning.

To help communities build a strong, cooperative relationship with their local government, this resource describes how to increase inter-sector collaboration and foster open government.

The Community Heart & Soul™ Field Guide is Orton Family Foundation’s guide to its tested and proven method of community planning and development.

This Tactical Urbanism guide outlines tools and case studies for quick, easy, cheap, fun, and often temporary projects that improve livability and public spaces - from chair bombing to guerilla gardening to temporary parks.

A qualified coordinator is vital to the success of Community Heart & Soul™. The coordinator must be mindful of far more than project management, and he or she will do more than coordinate.

This online information network organizes services, legal and technical data such as maps and photos, organizations, and articles relating both to Californian and national land use and environmental planning issues and initiatives.

A guide to preventing big-box development and invigorating local businesses and a strong local economy, the Big Box Tool Kit provides concrete advice, information, and a place for groups fighting big-box development to connect.

With examples and tips for forming an effective team, this resources provides a community with the tools to assemble a team to guide their Community Heart & Soul™ project to successful completion.