COLLECTIVE IMPACT FORUM COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TOOLS
The Community Engagement Toolkit shares a series of tools for planning community engagement to be more purposeful, equitable, transparent, and strategic so that community members are true partners for achieving impact. This toolkit includes tools exploring these areas: Be Result-Driven & Purposeful, Community Engagement Spectrum, Asset-Based Community Development, Equity – Who is at Our Tables?, Equity – Testing Assumptions & Bias, Assessing Audiences, Building Partnerships, Capacity Building, and Change Management.

CREATING PLACE: THE ART OF EQUITABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING
A multimedia collection of explorations, reflections, challenges, and offerings to the national dialogue around creative placemaking, created by ALTERNATE ROOTS members. Start by downloading the Creating Place digital book which contains an excerpt or overview of each Creating Place article, film, and podcast, as well as links to where you can see more.

CREATIVE AGING STRATEGY
The arts contribute to healthy aging, making them an effective tool for addressing the wellness needs of older Americans who are living longer and healthier lives than they did a generation ago. Creative aging—which is a set of practices that leverages the benefits of making, sharing or otherwise engaging in the arts to foster the mental, emotional and physical health and well-being of older adults—will become an increasingly important resource in the health care continuum. State arts agencies are poised to be key facilitators in leveraging the arts and this strategy sampler summarizes the many ways state arts agencies can foster creative aging. It lifts up model programs and discusses how the arts can support older adults in community settings as well as medical facilities. 

CREATIVE PEOPLE POWER
Springboard for the Arts and Helicon Collaborative share their 'Creative People Power,' a report and framework for combining creativity-centered and people-centered development to build strong, healthy, and resilient communities.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING 101 FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS
Anne Gadwa Nicodemus takes a look at the creative placemaking trend, its research, and how to confirm it's the right road to pursue. 

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS
This report frames eight reasons to do creative placemaking and strategies for getting started. It also features case studies of how these strategies are being used by three community development organizations that are leading this practice in the field.