CREATING CONNECTIONS: AN ARTS AND CULTURE FRAMEWORK AND TOOLKIT
Developed by Department of Arts and Culture Creative Strategist Sandra de la Loza, an artist-in-residence with the Department of Parks and Recreation in 2019-2020, Creating Connections: An Arts and Culture Framework and Toolkit establishes standards for arts and culture as core programming across all County parks. Using extensive research, collective dialogue, and collaborative envisioning, the toolkit is guided by the importance of the principles of cultural relevance, equity, and inclusion. Inspired by the everyday activities that bring people to parks, Creating Connections contains a framework and practical tools to implement art and cultural programs centered around four themes: Art and Community, Art and Nature, Art and Wellness, and Art and Food. It is designed to support parks in functioning as vibrant, enlivened, and active spaces that provide opportunities for social and environmental connectivity and regeneration. It is primarily written for staff, program providers, community partners, and advocates of the Department of Parks and Recreation.

CREATIVE EXCHANGE TOOLKITS
Loads of Practical toolkits from artists and art organizations for creative, artist-led community projects and programs. Meet the people around the country who are using their art, creativity and connections to shape their communities.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING FROM THE COMMUNITY UP
Creative Placemaking from the Community Up brought together a national cohort of groups through a shared set of values including equity, racial justice, and self determination, and the overall goal of advancing social justice in our communities. Their approach to learning is from the community up, drawing on deep reservoirs of local experience and knowledge and making connections between our communities. They collected several resources including case studies, webinars, toolkits pertaining to their work on cross sector collaborations, peer exchanges and skill building workshops, participatory planning and cultural mapping, thematic convenings, and presentations at local and national conferences. 

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING PUBLIC RESOURCES GUIDE
This resource helps community development practitioners, artists and arts, and cultural organizations survey the landscape and decode the language of federal government funding opportunities that might support creative placemaking efforts. Use this guide to identify public resources and to determine if they are the right fit for your community.

CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION: ARTS, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC HOUSING COMMUNITIES
To explore the role of arts and culture in transforming public housing communities, NOCD-NY convened a diverse range of residents for a roundtable in July 2015. Drawing on interviews carried out in the field, Creative Transformation: Arts, Culture and Public Housing Communities was designed to showcase exemplary partnerships that illustrated equitable, long-term approaches, identify barriers and challenges, develop recommendations and discuss how to move them into action, and more. 

CREATIVITY & THE ARTS: AN EMERGING IMPACT INVESTING THEME
Report from Upstart Co-Lab, LISC NYC, Meow Wolf, E-Line Media, Artspace, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Continuum Partners LLC, the UK’s Investing for Good, actor Mary Stuart Masterson – and others. Talks about the opportunities that art, design, culture, heritage and creativity offer impact investors today. This report is intended to provide a window into the rich array of opportunity to make meaningful and profitable investments that empower entire communities both economically and culturally.