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(PARK)ing Day is an annual one-day global event during which community members transform parking spaces and parking lots into temporary parks and public spaces.

Energizing Entrepreneurs is a toolkit of resources for communities looking to promote rural entrepreneurship as a mechanism for economic development.

The Center for Rural Entrepreneurship (CRE) is a rural policy research institute that promotes entrepreneurship in rural communities as a tool for a more economically sustainable future.

Priority Spend is web-based software to help groups of people prioritize decisions about proposed actions, spending, or other choices. It allows participants to assign weighted values to multiple choices, for more nuanced decisions than simple polls.

Do you ever think about building, or fixing up, a playground? The KaBOOM! Project Planner is a step by step tool that has everything you need to learn, plan, organize and build a playground or site enhancement project.

When exponential growth and development threatened the quality of life in Bend, Oregon, residents banded together with the city and Steven Ames Planning to create a visionary plan that would protect the unique community character they cherished.

NXT Consulting Group is a national leader in community and regional visioning. The firm offers consulting services as well as strategic visioning plans with a focus on regionalism and sustainability.

Urban Resources Initiative is a not-for-profit partnership with Yale University whose mission is to foster community-based land stewardship, promote environmental education and advance the practice of urban forestry.

Urban Ecology uses urban design, land use planning, and policy reform to help communities plan and build neighborhoods that are ecologically healthy, socially just, and economically fair.

The Rural Policy Research Institute works towards a vision of rural America in which vibrant rural communities embrace entrepreneurship, find new sources of competitive advantage in their inherent assets, and invest in a new, more sustainable future.