Civic Leadership Development – Additional Resources
The following sites provide frameworks, training materials, and/or assessment tools related to civic leadership development. If you have questions – or additional resources you’d suggest we list here – please email snichols {at} compact(.)org.
- +Acumen: Online, often free, courses in social change strategies
- Asset-Based Community Development Institute, DePaul University: training resources, podcasts, and toolkit
- Bonner Program Resources: An array of resources including an extensive training and enrichment curriculum
- Building Regular Interfaith Dialogue through Generous Engagement (BRIDGE): Free downloadable modules that equip campus professionals to train their peers and student paraprofessionals on interfaith cooperation.
- Campus Compact: Books and articles, organizations, and tools on specific learning outcomes related to student civic leadership development (Note: select resources from MNCC’s past Civic Leadership Development Online [CLIO] project are being integrated into this national site)
- Community Commons: Data sets and mapping tools for supporting community change
- Community Tool Box: Free toolkits on 16 distinct stages of enacting a community-based initiative
- Imagining America: Civic Professionalism white paper and draft rubric
- Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, Tufts University: Facilitating Political Discussions guide
- Institute of Applied Human Excellence: 60 free “Finding Your Flow” tools
- IUPUI’s Civic-Minded Graduate Scale
- Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota: “And Who Is My Neighbor?” Curriculum and Leader Guide
- The Merrimack College Center for Engaged Democracy: “Core Competencies in Civic Engagement” report
- Public Achievement: program guides, lessons, and activities, plus the University of Denver Public Achievement Curriculum
- Seeing Things Whole: Resources for organizational leadership
- Sustained Dialogue Institute: campus dialogue training information and issue sheets
- UCLA Higher Education Research Institute: “A Social Change Model of Leadership Development”