Managing Collaboration - $10.00
This informative booklet is written for the community builder who wants to learn how to manage collaboration at the grassroots level. Learn how the “ARC” method – Alignment, Relationships, and Communication – can help to grow and maintain a collaborative effort.

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Energizing Entrepreneurs - $23.00
This book is written for directors of local community development agencies, entrepreneurship practitioners, village managers, or any community leader who embraces change and reaches across regions to connect with people and agencies to strengthen hometown entrepreneurial assets. Visit the companion website to the book at www.energizingentrepreneurs.org.

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Your Field Guide to Community Building - $18.50
The purpose of this publication is to advance peer learning among rural community practitioners. What makes this project unique is that the final product is more than just another textbook. The project, funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, also includes a CD ROM, along with a web site at http://www.heartlandfieldguide.info

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Clues to Rural Community Survival - $15.00
In this new edition, The Heartland Center updates its classic study of thriving small towns, including the widely cited "20 Clues to Rural Community Survival," a list of characteristics these winning communities emanate. The soft cover edition also features an in-depth profile of 14 communities in 13 states and 2 reservations, and includes a new "how-to" section on using the Clues list in local development efforts.

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Clues to Rural Community Survival Workbook - $7.00
This new workbook offers a step-by-step guide for community assessment and action planning using the "20 Clues to Rural Community Survival" as a tool for discussion and strategic analysis. Use the workbook to bring your community together to identify hidden strengths, weaknesses and opportunities and to create strategies for short- and long-term development.

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The Entrepreneurial Community:
A Strategic Leadership Approach to Community Survival - $35.00
This step-by-step leadership approach is perfect for smaller to medium-sized community strategic planning. This comprehensive guide discusses the phases of work involved in community effort and includes practical, hands-on activities for each phase. Published in a 3-ring binder to facilitate duplication and use of materials in a group setting.

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Better Schools through Public Engagement - $20.00
This guidebook for school and community leaders describes a practical step-by-step approach to public engagement in a process of school reform. Taking a community-based approach, the guidebook will help you and other community leaders work together to envision where your community needs to go and the role your school can play to get there.

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• Ideas for creating a vital, challenging learning atmosphere
• Practical, hands-on activities emphasizing teamwork and partnership
• Strategies for increasing local commitment and support
• A toolkit of reproducible materials for use in your program

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Six Myths about the Future of Small Towns - $5.00
Misconceptions about small town vitality are counterproductive to rural community development and often reinforce inaction. By exposing six commonly held "myths" about rural community survival, this booklet allows small town leaders to begin to build on the positive aspects of their communities for a strong future.

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Seven Secrets to Coping with Change in Small Towns - $5.00
Resistance to change is one of the greatest challenges facing rural leaders. Explore seven attributes that smart leaders use to navigate through a social and economic environment in which change is the only constant.

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Eight Challenges Facing Community Leaders - $5.00
Today's community leaders face a set of challenges that are different from those of previous generations. Here's a discussion of these challenges, with suggestions on what leaders can do to respond to them.

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Ten Ideas for Recruiting New Leaders - $5.00
Here's a highly useful guide to recruiting and maintaining community and organizational leadership and volunteerism. Combining leadership and motivational theory with our experience in community development, this booklet is a must for community builders everywhere.

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