Community Development Practice is a web-based publication of the Community Development Society. It presents innovative approaches, tools, and techniques that can be readily applied by community development practitioners, applied researchers and prac-academics. 

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CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 20: A Refreshed Community Development Practice  

• Editorial: Revitalizing Practice: Introduction to a Refreshed Community Development Practice (p.2-3)
• Are We Using All the Tools in Our Toolkits? Considering Video Recordings for Community Development (p. 5-13)
• Uncovering Hidden Rental Properties (p.  14-35)
• Community-Responsive Behavioral Research: Translating Data for Public Consumption and Decision Making (p.36-48)
• Community Coaching: Insight into an Emerging Practice (p. 49-55)

PAST ISSUES 

• Issue 19 - Conducting Virtual Facilitated Discussions
• Issue 18 - You Get What You Measure: A Process to Determine and Measure Progress in Community Development
• Issue 17 - The Use of Social Networking in Community Development
• Issue 16 - The Waste Solutions Forum: An Innovative and Cooperative Approach to Support the Agriculture Community and Protect Water Quality
• Issue 15 - Options for Farmers, Farmers Markets and Communities: Homebased Fruit and Vegetable Micro Processing
• Issue 14 - Creating Business Networks
• Issue 13 - Using Community Capitals to Build Assets for Positive Community Change
• Issue 12 - Values, Operational Principles, and Models for Universities to Follow While Implementing Development Programs in Diverse, Rural Communities
• Issue 11 - Entrepreneurial Facilitation: Approaches for Boosting Entrepreneurship in Local Economic Development
• Issue 10 - The CAFE Approach: New Tools to Foster Citizen Involvement in the Community Development Process in Small Rural Towns
• Issue 9 - Strategic Partnering: Partnering for Change
• Issue 8 - Capturing the Character of Rural Communities through Tourism Development
• Issue 7 - Large Group Interventions for Whole System Participation, Development and Change
• Issue 6 - Building Community and Commitment to the Future: The Search Conference
• Issue 5 - Analyzing Local Markets
• Issue 4 - Force-Field Analysis: Incorporating Critical Thinking in Goal Setting
• Issue 3 - Taking Action: Community Development Strategies and Tactics
• Issue 2 - Community Development and Business Location Decision Making
• Issue 1 - Community Issues Gathering: A Tool for Resolving Controversy

If you are interested in submitting a manuscript to CD Practice, please contact:

Craig Talmage, CD Practice Editor
Phone: 315-781-4597, Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.