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.

DESIGN MATTERS TOOLKIT
The Design Matters Toolkit was developed from learnings and research stemming from Enterprise's Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute. Through interviews with developers, funders, architects and policy members, they identified key practices to yield a more people-focused development process that produces better projects for residents and communities.

ELGL EQUITY & JUSTICE RESOURCES
Do you work in local government and looking for equity & justice resources? ELGL has put together a page specifically for crowdsourcing equity and justice resources including upcoming and archived webinars.

HUD: PUBLIC ART AND NOISE MITIGATION
This resource offers guidance on integrating public art into noise mitigation projects to transform noise mitigation into an amenity that is visually interesting and culturally relevant to residential communities. The document outlines: Types of public art that can be developed and the benefits of using public art as a mitigation strategy including possible funding sources for public art projects.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMS MUST INCLUDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC SECTOR INNOVATION
An article discussing how current versions of local government artist-in-residence programs typically stop short of figuring out how to induce social change by focusing too much on the artists’ narrowly defined art projects.

MINNEAPOLIS CREATIVE CITYMAKING
Rainbow Research conducted a Developmental Evaluation of the Minneapolis Creative CityMaking (CCM) program 2015-2016, funded by the Kresge Foundation. CCM was administered and directed through a collaboration of Intermedia Arts (IA) and the Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (ACCE) unit of the City of Minneapolis. It was an arts-based innovation initiative that in 2015-2016 paired city staff in five City of Minneapolis departments with nine experienced community artists to generate new arts-based, field-tested approaches that engage traditionally underrepresented communities and stimulate innovative thinking and practices for more responsive government. This work increased the capacity of municipal government to address inequities in political representation, housing, transportation, and community engagement. Creative CityMaking intentionally cultivates intersections where City staff and artists work together to address issues of disparity among people who live, work, or study in Minneapolis. These intersections give birth to new thinking, allowing diverse voices to be heard, residents to influence decision-making, and government to create a city that works for all.