GUIDE FOR BUSINESS DISTRICTS TO WORK WITH LOCAL ARTISTS
A free guide for place managers to work with artists on creative placemaking projects. The guide was created for International Downtown Association by Springboard for the Arts from their experience working with artists and consulting on creative placemaking work across the country, the guide contains tools for partnership building between BIDs and artists, collaboration between community stakeholders, budgeting and project management.

HOW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS CHANGE WHEN THEY EMBRACE ARTS AND CULTURE
This webinar features leaders of community-based organizations and the artists with whom they have partnered to hear the stories and learn the lessons from their local strategies and internal transformation. The webinar is based in the four-year journeys and future plans of the Cook Inlet Housing Authority, a tribal housing agency in Anchorage, the Jackson [Mississippi] Medical Mall Foundation, and the other organizations in ArtPlace America’s Community Development Investments (CDI) initiative. These experiences provide lessons for community development corporations, nonprofit housing developers, health services providers, park associations, and economic development agencies on how this creative work gets designed, carried out, and sustained.

HOW ORGANIZATIONS EVOLVE WHEN THEY EMBRACE ARTS AND CULTURE
This is the second in a series of briefs that describe the changes, insights, and lessons when arts and cultural strategies are deployed in service of comprehensive community development and planning. During ArtPlace America's Community Development Investments initiative, six participating organizations which had not previously focused on the arts developed creative placemaking projects and cultural strategies that could help them more effectively achieve their missions. PolicyLink conducted a research and documentation project to measure the progress, immediate outcomes, and impacts of those projects. This brief examines how these organizations grew and changed internally in order to incorporate arts and culture into their overall direction and day-to-day practices.  

INSIDE ARTIST-MUNICIPAL PARTNERSHIPS
Animating Democracy’s Inside Artist-Municipal Partnerships blog salon interviews innovators in the field of local government. 

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD: RELFLECTIONS ON RURAL PLACEMAKING
Over the years, buildingcommunityWORKSHOP ([bc]) and the Housing Assistance Council (HAC) have collaborated to promote creative placemaking as an important tool in comprehensive community development and build knowledge of the practice with in HAC’s Rural Partner Network. In 2017, they published a report, Lessons from the Field: Reflections on Rural Placemaking describing their yearlong initiative and reflecting on the last year of work, outlining key outcomes and lessons learned valuable to the larger practice of rural creative placemaking.

MADE TO LAST: A FIELD GUIDE TO COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
By creating a stronger social bond and improving the resilience of the built environment, neighborhoods can overcome impacts from both physical disasters and chronic challenges. To support organizations to strengthen their toolkit for building community resilience, Enterprise Community Partners launched the Climate and Cultural Resilience Grant Program. This program connected the dots between resilient infrastructure, creative placemaking strategies and social cohesion. They share these experiences in the form of a field guide for community resilience that highlights five diverse community development organizations leveraging culture and creativity to strengthen community resilience.