WV HUB

Community Development

• Placemaking 101
• Community Questions: Engaging Citizens to Address Community Concerns
• Federal Reserve Bank summary and survey on emerging issues in community development

Economic Development

• Developing Entrepreneurial Economics in Rural Regions
• Local Food as Economic Development
• Beginning Farmers/Access to Land and Capital: KISRA Micro-Loan Program

Building Sustainable Farms, Food Systems, etc.

Please visit the WV Food & Farm Coalition's website.  The WV Food & Farm Coalition (WVFFC) is a program of the WV Community Development Hub, created to address a strong community interest in getting more local food from producer to consumer.  WVFFC maintains an extensive list of Resources relevant to local food and farming.

Funding and Resource Development

• Agriculture and Food-Related Funding Opportunities
• Hub Toolkit for Fundraising and Resource Development
  
• Capital Campaign Webinars and Materials
  • Capital Campaign Webinar #1 Materials
    
  • Capital Campaign Webinar #2 Materials

Communications

• New Media Toolkit for digital media and social media tools

Historic Preservation

• Forum News, Historic Preservation

Creating Possibility Forums and Community Teams

• Improving and Increasing Civic Engagement
• Manual for Creating Possibility Forums
  • Talking, thinking and working differently
  • Adopting guiding principles
  • Starting with engaged leadership
  • Engaging both facilitation and coaching
  • Recruiting “team player” participants
  • Providing sufficient space and timeRespecting and using different participant skills and abilities
  • Evaluating results 

 Legal Resources

• LawForChange provides a free, one-stop source of legal information drafted by lawyers and specifically designed to support and strengthen the U.S. social sector.  Some key features of the site include:
  • A collection of Legal Tools and Resources tuned to the needs of the social sector 
    http://www.lawforchange.org/lfc/Legal_Tools.asp
  • Topics in Depth pages, covering such subjects as legal structure, taxation, and intellectual property 
    http://www.lawforchange.org/lfc/Spotlight_Issue.asp
  • Articles and commentary by attorneys and social sector thought leaders 
    http://www.lawforchange.org/lfc/Blogs.asp