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Run by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Knowledge Center compiles resources for individuals and groups, sharing information gained through the Foundation’s efforts to connect people with their communities and create lasting change.

Google Earth is the web’s most comprehensive set of maps, images and geographic data with an interface that allows users to zoom into detailed satellite images of nearly every corner of the globe and to layer on their own datasets.

The Placemaking process involves identifying community sites that need revitalization, determining a vision for the site, and crafting a new place that will fulfill that vision. The Placemaking approach can be effective on various levels of scale.

A number of websites and software programs offer online survey capabilities, which allow communities or organizations to collect and analyze data more efficiently and cost-effectively than is possible with mail and phone surveys.

uMAP is a participatory youth community mapping process that facilitates social action and neighborhood change. Mapping is based on young people’s everyday lives, perceptions, values, assets and needs.

Modeled after traditional storytelling gatherings, Story Circles allow people to come together to share experiences and stories. This process can help communities explore and identify unifying values, which can inform the planning process.

Wealth Creation in Rural Communities is an approach to create multiple forms of wealth that are owned and controlled locally. This systems approach links together assets, producers, and consumers in ways that encourage economic development in rural a

This Michigan-based non-profit is dedicated to “helping people shape better communities through participation, education, information and the effective use of technology.” Main foci include land use, environmental, and resource management.

The Sonoran Institute inspires and enables community decisions and public policies that forge effective and enduring conservation solutions for the land and people of western North America.

Luke Planning, Inc., under the direction of Henry Luke, has facilitated Community Vision and Community Strategic Planning projects in over sixty communities in eighteen states since 1983.