Community and leadership

Features

Teenage artist helps lead community arts pilot project

Seth Ritter’s studio is tucked away in a rehabbed 1850s-style grocery store building in historic Lexington. Bare light bulbs cast a dim light over a workbench scrawled with an artist’s random sketches.

Voluntary board service means more than attending meetings

If you are ever asked to volunteer on an organization's board, make sure you know what you're getting into before saying yes.

New documentary on Eliot Battle

Battle: Change From Within explores the educator's role in desegregating Columbia's schools.

2010 Census shows increase in seniors

Missouri’s senior population, those 65 and older, grew at a faster rate than the overall population from 2000 to 2010, according to 2010 Census data analyzed by MU Extension’s Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis.

Tool helps counties assess fiscal performance

A new publication, DM4011, Missouri's Third Class County Budget Trend Analysis, is an electronic workbook counties can use to identify fiscal trends, analyze budgets and set benchmarks for fiscal performance.

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.
  
  Media available: photo
• 3 keys to emergency preparedness
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
  COLUMBIA, Mo.– While security experts and law enforcement personnel are determined to make sure events like the Boston Marathon bombing never happen again, emergency preparedness and personal safety begin with the individual, says a University of Missouri Extension emergency management specialist.
• Lexington chosen for MU Extension Community Arts Pilot Project
  Tuesday, January 29, 2013
  LEXINGTON, Mo. – The historic community of Lexington will be the site of a University of Missouri Extension Community Arts Pilot Project designed to provide an economic boost through community development.
  
  Media available: photos; video
• Teenage artist helps lead community arts pilot project
  Tuesday, January 29, 2013
  LEXINGTON, Mo. – Seth Ritter’s studio is tucked away in a rehabbed 1850s-style grocery store building in historic Lexington. Bare light bulbs hang austerely from the ceiling, casting a dim light over a wooden workbench scrawled with an artist’s random sketches.
  
  Media available: photos; video
• University of Missouri Extension 4-H summer camp encourages youth to develop their own small business
  Thursday, August 2, 2012
  COLUMBIA — In a striped button-up shirt, black slacks and styled hair, Brandon Banks looks like a typical businessman ready for a day’s work in the office.
  
  Media available: photos
• 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.
• Grocery co-op ends fresh food drought in inner city
  Thursday, August 5, 2010
  ST. LOUIS – It used to require a car trip or a bus ride, but now shopping for fresh produce in the inner city only requires a short walk for Nadia Russell and her children.
  
  Media available: video

Websites

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

• 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 Program
• Missouri Training Institute
  Provides training and consulting services to improve business performance and organizational effectiveness for public, private and not-for-profit organizations.
• MU Conference Office
  Accommodates conference needs for groups preparing to host an event.
• MU Labor Education Program
• Rural Policy Research Institute
• Youth-Adult Partnerships
  Engages youth and adults in decision making and governance.

You may be interested in these external websites:

• eXtension Community Planning and Zoning Resources

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

You may be interested in these related publications:

• MP205, Extension Publications Catalog