Community Development


When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It)
Walking With the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Community: The Structure of Belonging
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Community development: A critical approach (BASW/Policy Press titles)
With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development
Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It Right
Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development
Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Abundant Community by John McKnightThe Great Good Place by Ray OldenburgThe Great Neighborhood Book by Jay WalljasperBetter Together by Robert D. PutnamThe Careless Society by John McKnight
Best Community Building Books
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Dean Foley
Every sustainable decision today honours future generations.
Dean Foley

Thomas L. Friedman
One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain wi ...more
Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

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