PolicyLink has published several reports that build organizational capacity, encourage leadership development in low-income communities and communities of color, and introduce new frameworks to the community building field. Our Leadership for Change publications to date are listed below. Click here for a complete list of our Community Technology publications.
Organized
for Change: The Activist's Guide to Police Reform, Spring 2004
This manual contains strategies to help advocates committed to moving their
police departments closer to a vision of community-centered policing. Organized
for Change: The Activist's Guide to Police Reform , describes the
nuts and bolts of a scope of advocacy strategies-both traditional and nontraditional;
among them: organizing, developing the media, petitioning administrative
agencies, and backing legislation. It provides examples of each advocacy
strategy that can be leveraged to achieve police reform.
Judith
Bell, "Learning to Lobby: Steps to Successful Legislative Advocacy," Race,
Poverty & the Environment: A Journal for Social and Environmental Justice,
Fall 2003.
(Race, Poverty & the Environment is published by Urban
Habitat.)
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Leadership
for Policy Change, PolicyLink, Fall 2003
This report explains why there are so few leaders of color making policy,
why their presence is important, and what must be done to increase their
numbers. Leadership for Policy Change draws on interviews with more than
one hundred leaders from the public sector, private industry, academia,
and nonprofit organizations; a scan of 72 leadership development programs;
and an extensive review of current leadership development literature. The
report describes the barriers to participation of leaders of color in local
and national public policy development and the strategies that can be used
to remove the barriers so that leaders can use their expertise and experience
to benefit low-income communities of color and the nation.
Community
Mapping: Using Geographic Data for Neighborhood Revitalization, November
2002
Community mapping and the use of Geographic Information Systems are increasingly
popular and influential tools in promoting equitable development. This publication
describes how community mapping efforts are being deployed across the country.
It guides readers to the nation's leading resources, and to the most innovative
usages of these new technologies.
Bridging the Organizational Divide: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to the Digital Divide, Fall 2001
Moving beyond the "digital divide," this report offers a new paradigm for the community technology field, advocating not only technology access and training for low-income communities, but also technology capacity building for community-based organizations, relevant content created by and for communities, and development of innovative technology applications-a comprehensive approach that allows technology to be used as a tool to build strong and healthy communities.