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Also Try Volunteering Materials Voting for Small Organizations (Votenet.com) Provides for online voting for a small organization. 8-05 Multimedia Debunking Third-World Myths (PBS.org) "You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called 'developing world' using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling's hands, global trends -- life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates -- become clear, intuitive and even playful." 07-07 Papers Broken Windows Measure of Neighborhood Safety (TheAtlantic.com - Wilson and Kelling) "Above all, we must return to our long-abandoned view that the police ought to protect communities as well as individuals. Our crime statistics and victimization surveys measure individual losses, but they do not measure communal losses. Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police--and the rest of us--ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows." 1-04 Community Development Program for Youth (Ten-Point Coalition) Provides 10 points for successful grassroots community development programs for youth that are designed to increase participation of neighbors and clergy in positive alternatives to violence and crime. 1-04 Projects Community Development Stories (grass-roots.org) Provides stories of community development heroes. 10-00 Not-Communes (US News) "The idea that like-minded individuals should forge a community is on something of a comeback tour. An online directory of 'intentional communities' has more than doubled in the past two years to 1,295 in North America, and 20 new listings are added each month." 08-07 Time Banks and Bartering (TimeBanks.org) Provides articles for for starting time banks to trade your services for the services of others. Visitors are sometimes looking for bartering organizations or brokers. 01-07 Trips Community Development (Journey to Forever - Addison) Provides articles, links, and discussions of how we can help improve the situation in some of our communities in the world with the most need, rural reconstruction. 12-00

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