Organization development

Features

Organizational Development for Nonprofits

This program helps Missouri's small nonprofit organizations, which are in many ways the backbone of civic life in our communities.

Community Planning

Groups, organizations and communities develop a vision, identify priorities, develop an action agenda, and successfully develop and implement programs and projects. Find a specialist in your area who can help.

Vision to Action: Take Charge Too (PDF) — Resource guide for facilitating participatory community and organizational planning.

Community Development Academy

The series of three courses combines leading-edge thinking with practical application to enhance the capacity of people to work effectively with a broad range of community issues. Each five-day course is an intensive, experiential experience that explores ideas and develops practical skills.

About the Community Development Program

MU Extension helps people create communities of the future. Community development education helps citizens tap into local strengths and university resources. Read about impacts the program has had on Missouri communities.

News

• MU Extension program director honored with justice award
  Monday, April 29, 2013
  ST. LOUIS, Mo.– Nina Balsam, St. Louis County program director for University of Missouri Extension, received the Citizenship Award April 25 at Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s 15th annual Women’s Justice Awards ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown St. Louis.
  
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• Voluntary board service means more than attending meetings
  Monday, June 18, 2012
  BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. — If you are ever asked to volunteer on an organization’s board, make sure you know what you’re getting into before saying yes,says a University of Missouri Extension community development specialist.

Websites

Browse these University of Missouri websites:

• Affordable Housing Through Community Partnership
• Alianzas
  The Alianzas partnership enhances the ability of communities to collaborate with the growing immigrant Hispanic population.
• Community Decision Support
  Enhances local capacity to make sound policy choices.
• Community Deliberation Program
  Through face-to-face meetings, people learn more about each other's viewpoints and discover they have things in common.
• Community Development Academy
  Provides high-quality, relevant community development education through a series of three courses.
• Community Revitalization and Sustainability
  Extension specialists work with the community to enable residents to take charge and make decisions about their own communities.
• CPAC - Community Policy Analysis Center
  Provides research, outreach and training to support improved policy decisions in Missouri communities.
• ExCEED - MU Extension Community Economic and Entrepreneurial Development
  Program to stimulate entrepreneurial communities and foster a climate of entrepreneurship.
• Global Leadership Education
• Missouri Farmer's Market Directory
• MU Labor Education Program
• OSEDA - Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis
• PPRC - Public Policy Research Center
• Youth-Adult Partnerships
  Engages youth and adults in decision making and governance.

You may be interested in these external websites:

• CIM - Community Issues Management

Publications

• MP568, Community Development Theory

You may be interested in these related 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
• DM490, Working With Resource People
• DM491, Considering Professional Consultation
• DM7616, Practicing Community Development
• EC961, Why Development Projects Don’t Work as Planned: Pitfalls and Solutions
• MP906, Community Gardening Toolkit
• NCR203, Public Policy Education: Key Concepts and Methods