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Community, Economic, and Career Development Resources

Exploring a Career

Career One-Step (US Dept Labor)

Financial Education Resource Center

Banking and Financial Literacy for Kids and Teens

Grassroots Economic Organizing

The Economic Democracy Training Series: Building Leadership for the Next Economy (free download)

Community wealth and community asset-building practices (Democracy Collaborative)

Prosperity Now local economy policies

Policy Link – equitable policies

Building a Sustainable Business planning guide (free download)

Homegrown Tools local community economic development resources

Placemaking and Commons Strategies

Solidarity Economy overview and strategies

Shareable – the Sharing Economy

New Economy Coalition

Just Transition strategies

Entrepreneurship & small business development (SBA)

SCORE business resources and mentoring

Community Development Financial Institution directory / locator (Opportunity Finance Network)

Self-Help (community development financial institution, credit union +)

Hope Enterprise Corporation (community development financial institution, credit union +)

Center for Responsible Lending

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  • Principles and Poetics of Engagement and Collaboration: an orientation
  • Good Group Characteristics
  • Deeper Community Partnerships: Practices for Beloved Community Building
  • Asset-Based Community Development: A Catalyzing Worksheet
  • Asset Based Community Development resources
  • Strategic Strengths of Congregations
  • Community Tool Box
  • How Are We Beloved Community?
  • Community, Economic, and Career Development Resources
  • Self-Help
  • Spiritual Practices Tool Kit
  • The Activist’s Ally – Contemplative Tools for Social Change
  • Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation
  • Zen Peacemakers Order
  • Exploring Your Spiritual Gifts
  • Tree of Contemplative Practices
  • Buddhism’s “Five Remembrances” Are Wake-Up Calls for Us All
  • Christian Spiritual Practices
  • Discipleship study resources (from Radical Discipleship)
  • Discipleship study resources (from Word & World)
  • Faith & Money Network
  • United for a Fair Economy
  • Solidarity Economy Principles
  • Racial Equity & Dismantling Racism Workbook
  • Being Anti-Racist
  • Racial Equity Tools
  • Landback Manifesto (NDN Collective)
  • Movement 4 Black Lives – Vision & Policy
  • Poor People’s Campaign agenda (also explore principles and policy priorities)
  • Moral Fusion Organizing (Repairers of the Breach)
  • Racial Equity in Policymaking
  • Cultural Survival
  • Companioning Philosophy for Grieving
  • The Pluralism Project
  • Charter of Compassion
  • The Earth Charter
  • Towards a Global Ethic of the Parliament of the World’s Religions
  • 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
  • Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century
  • Center for Applied Nonviolence Resources
  • Yale Forum on Religion & Ecology
  • Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Implementation Guidebook