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This program guides communities through exploring economic development opportunities and building a goal-oriented economic development plan. Building Local Prosperity (BLP) is an economic development planning and engagement process in which members ...

Strategic Doing

This one-day program guides communities through exploring community economic development opportunities they have and taking them through a planning process that leads to a goal-oriented plan. Strategic Doing is a community focused method of helping ...

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Missouri Community LAB: A hub for creating strong, whole communities

Published: Friday, Oct. 27, 2023

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Missouri is stronger when its communities are vibrant and healthy, but people can struggle to find information and programs designed to help build those vibrant communities, says Claire Rippel, University of Missouri Extension ...

Show-Me MO Success podcast: Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia

Published: Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023

COLUMBIA, Mo. – As a palliative care nurse at Boone Hospital, Jackie Reed saw families dealing with the declining health of loved ones have to make difficult financial decisions.Her experience led her to team up with another nurse, Dorreen Rardin, ...

New documentary on Eliot Battle previews Feb. 25 on MU campus

Published: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Local civil rights pioneer Eliot Battle is the subject of a new documentary that chronicles his pivotal role in desegregating schools, housing and the Columbia community.On Feb. 25 at 7 p.m., University of Missouri Extension will ...

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Decision-Making Techniques for Community Groups

Publication date: March 31, 2022

Reviewed by Sarah Hultine MassengaleCommunity Economic DevelopmentJohanna Reed Adams, Charles M. St. Clair and William E. RobertsonDepartment of Community DevelopmentCommunity groups often have a problem coming to a decision about projects to ...

Practicing Community Development, Second Edition

Publication date: June 1, 2019

$30.00

Donald W. LittrellDoris P. LittrellAnadil IftekarStephen C. JeanettaCommunity development is a radical profession. It is based on the belief that people can give purposeful direction to their collective future. How this occurs is based on the ...

Radiation Fact Sheet

Publication date: Sept. 27, 2018

Curt EmanuelExtension Educator, Purdue University Cooperative Extension ServiceExtension Disaster Education Network Radiological Education Team MemberThe penetrating power of radiation. (Image courtesy of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory ...

Community Gardening Toolkit

Publication date: April 1, 2015

The Gardeners' Welcome Packet is a set of documents that can be edited and revised by gardeners and garden leaders. It is available in RTF and PDF formats. The packet is intended to be a tool for organizing your garden, introducing new gardeners to ...

Working With Resource People

Publication date: Oct. 1, 1993

Gerald GabrielDepartment of Community DevelopmentResource people can and should play a vital role in changing communities. City governments, community institutions, organizations and groups are often confronted with issues that make special knowledge ...

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