Community and leadership

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Many hands make light work

Gardening with others can be both rewarding and challenging. Use the Community Gardening Toolkit to plan, enhance and sustain your community gardening project.

Step up to leadership

A curriculum that provides a foundation for the development of community leaders, including information on specific topics for novice board members. The curriculum also contains a participants’ manual with narrative explanations of each topic and essential learning points.

Local government series

Developed by John Ballard, a local government specialist with MU Extension for 21 years, this series describes basic guidelines and laws for various sizes of local governments in an easily understood format.

Web Sites

The following are general-interest community and leadership Web sites from the University of Missouri. Browse the menu on the left for sites on more specific community and leadership topics.

• Community Decision Support
• Community Deliberation Program
• Community Development Program
• MU Conference Office
• Rural Policy Research Institute
• Youth-Adult Partnerships

Publications

The following are general-interest community and leadership publications. Browse the menu on the left for more specific community and leadership publications.

• DM403, Developing Effective Study Committees
• DM404, The Study Committee and the Community
• DM460, A Plan for Small Group Discussion
• DM461, Defusing Public Decision
• DM463, Decision-Making Techniques for Community Groups
• DM464, Town Meetings That Work
• DM490, Working With Resource People
• DM491, Considering Professional Consultation
• DM7616, Practicing Community Development
• M108, Surveying Community Attitudes
• M133, Small Town Survival Manual
• MP388, Milan: A Case Study of Developing Community Initiative
• MP906, Community Gardening Toolkit
• MX381, Technology Transfer, From Researchers to Users