The Creative Community Builder's Handbook

Tom Borrup

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Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies Part 2 gives you ten concrete strategies for building on the unique qualities of your own community. Each strategy is illustrated by two case studies taken from a variety of cities, small towns, and neighborhoods across the United States. You'll learn how people from all walks of life used culture and creativity as a glue to bind together people, ideas, enterprises, and institutions to make places more balanced and healthy. These examples are followed in Part 3 with six steps to assessing, planning, and implementing creative community building projects: 1. Assess Your Situation and Goals; 2. Identify and Recruit Effective Partners; 3. Map Values, Strengths, Assets, and History; 4. Focus on Your Key Asset, Vision, Identity, and Core Strategies; 5. Craft a Plan That Brings the Identity to Life; 6. Secure Funding, Policy Support, and Media Coverage. Detailed guidance, hands-on worksheets, and a hypothetical community sample walk you through the entire process. Each section includes additional resources as well as an appendix listing books, web sites, organizations, and research studies. By understanding the theoretical context (Part 1), learning from case studies (Part 2), and following the six steps (Part 3), you'll be able to build a more vibrant, creative, and equitable community.

Sujets

• City Planning
• Public Policy
• Political Science
• Urban Development
• urban planning
• The arts
• Arts

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 02 août 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781618589149
• Langue: English

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Library of Congress Data
Borrup, Tom, 1954- The creative community builder’s handbook : how to transform communities using local assets, art, and culture / by Tom Borrup ; with Partners for Livable Communities ; foreword by Robert McNulty. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
9781618589149
1. Community development--United States. 2. Community leadership-- United States. 3. Cultural policy. I. Partners for Livable Communities. II. McKnight Foundation. III. Title. HN90.C6.B6852006 307.1’4068--dc22 2006010900

Cover Images:
A mother and daughter duo take part in In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre’s May Day Parade. Photo by Gayla Ellis.
 
Yak parade-style puppet by Andrew Kim from In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre’s 2001 May Day Parade. Photo by Gayla Ellis.
 
Downtown aerial view of Providence, Rhode Island during a WaterFire event. Photo by Thomas Payne, copyright 2003, WaterFire Providence.
 
“Strutin.” A painting by artist Ta-coumba Aiken.
About the Author
T OM BORRUP has been a leader and innovator in nonprofit cultural and community development work for over twenty-five years. His consulting, writing, and teaching explore intersections between culture, art, community building, civic engagement, urban design, town planning, and the active use of public space. Based in Minneapolis and Miami Beach, Tom consults with foundations, nonprofits, and public agencies across the United States. He has written many articles for publications in the arts, city planning, and philanthropy. Many of these articles can be accessed at www.communityandculture.com/writing.html .
 
Tom explored the topic of this book as a fellow in the Knight Program in Community Building at the University of Miami School of Architecture in 2002, and through a St. Paul/Travelers Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods grant during 2002 and 2003. As executive director of Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis from 1980 until 2002, he developed a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural organization recognized nationally for its innovative work engaging artists and other cultural assets in its diverse urban community.
 
From 1994 to 2003, Tom served on the board of the Jerome Foundation, a progressive funder of emerging artists in New York City and Minnesota, serving two terms as chair. He also served eight years on the board of the San Francisco—based National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, including two terms as co-president. Throughout his career, Tom has actively served on funding and policy review panels for institutions including the Rockefeller, Ford, Wallace, and Andy Warhol foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
 
He has been an invited speaker for the American Association of Museums, the Planners Network, Grantmakers in the Arts, Americans for the Arts, and many other organizations. Tom teaches for the graduate program in arts administration at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and for the Institute for Arts Management at the University of Massachusetts. He received his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Goddard College, and continued there to receive his master’s degree in communications and public policy.

About Partners for Livable Communities
Partners for Livable Communities (PLC) is a nonprofit organization that promotes quality of life, economic development, and social equity.
 
Partners for Livable Communities fosters livable communities through technical assistance, leadership training, workshops, charettes, research, and publications. Using these techniques, PLC helps communities envision bold futures, unleash vital new resources, and build vigorous public-private coalitions that, in combination, strengthen communities, their residents, and their economies. More than 1,200 individuals and groups from all sectors—local, state, national, international, public, private, nonprofit, philanthropy, and media—make up PLC’s resource network. These groups share and build innovative ideas on livability and community improvement.
 
Partners for Livable Communities has a long and distinguished history in the use of culture, heritage, design, and the humanities to help people reclaim their neighborhoods. PLC was a direct outcome of a national conference on inner-city neighborhoods, hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts in New York City in 1975. Urged by then-NEA chair Nancy Hanks, a consortium of conferees concerned with livability and the built environment became officially incorporated in August 1977. Robert McNulty served as organizer-strategist in the creation of the organization, and continues as the president of PLC to this day.
 
In 1993, PLC began an extensive developmental program called Culture Builds Community, which aims to systematically place cultural assets within the portfolio of community development efforts. The project began in New York City under the sponsorship of CitiGroup Foundation with CitiGroup grantees. It expanded to work with the Enterprise Foundation, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, the William Penn Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and others. Nationwide in scope, the program gave rise to a publication, Culture Builds Communities, that inspired this book.
 
Partners for Livable Communities has a board of thirty-five women and men from politics, banking, journalism, and community affairs. This board sees Partners as a resource center to help communities become more livable. PLC views culture in all its forms (and as advocated in this book) as a key resource that should be part of the toolkit of community development leaders everywhere.
 
To learn more about PLC and its many services and publications, visit www.livable.com .
Table of Contents
Title Page Copyright Page About the Author Table of Figures Foreword Author’s Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION - Creative Community Building PART ONE - Ideas Behind This Book
CHAPTER 1 - The Role of Culture in Community Building
PART TWO - Ten Economic and Social Development Strategies
CHAPTER 2 - Building Strong Economies through Arts and Culture CHAPTER 3 - Building Social Connections through Arts and Culture
PART THREE - Steps for Creative Community Builders
CHAPTER 4 - Step 1: Assess Your Situation and Goals CHAPTER 5 - Step 2: Identify and Recruit Effective Partners CHAPTER 6 - Step 3: Map Values, Strengths, Assets, and History CHAPTER 7 - Step 4: Focus on Your Key Asset, Vision, Identity, and Core Strategies CHAPTER 8 - Step 5: Craft a Plan That Brings the Identity to Life CHAPTER 9 - Securing Funding, Policy Support, and Media Coverage
Afterword Glossary References to Organizations and Agencies Bibliography Index
Table of Figures
Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3
Foreword
T EN YEARS AGO Partners for Livable Communities published its pioneering work Culture Builds Community, authored by Kathy Booth. Since then the field of culture and community development has moved considerably. There is strong recognition of asset-based community development, a concept pioneered by Jody Kretzmann and John McKnight that stresses that artists, artisans, and cultural resources are key elements of a community and need to be marshaled and worked with for community improvement.
The work of Bill Strickland at Manchester Craftsman’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center, supported in part by the Ford Foundation, showed other community development corporations the importance of having a cultural strategy as part of a group’s community mission. The research of Shirley Brice-Heath of the Carnegie Foundation of Education showed the relationship between after-school and out-of-school cultural mentoring programs and entrepreneurial training agendas for young people, with young