KEYS Publications & Documents to Download
KEYS Counts:
Community Facts & Figures 2004 - Download (PDF)
KEYS Region: Our Future by Design Citizens' Survey 2004 - Download (PDF Form)
Survey Results KEYS Forum April 2004 Read Online (HTML)
Newspaper Article Links
York Weekly April 4, 2007 (pdf)
Weely Sentinel October 20, 2006 (pdfs) Front Page Cont. Page 11
Community Support Organizations
The CWC is a type of organization sometimes referred to as a Community Support Organization (CSO). This article published in the National Civic Review explains the functions of CSOs:
Connor, J. A., (Summer, 2003). Community Support Organizations: Enabling Citizen Democracy to Sustain Comprehensive Community Impact. National Civic Review, 92(2), 113-129 (pdf)
See this webpage for more articles by the same author:
http://thecollaboratory.us/collaboratorycs/pubs.html
Piscataqua Sustainability Initiative
The Piscataqua Sustainability Initiative (PSI) is a grassroots project based in Portsmouth NH. Study circles using the book The Natural Step for Communities are currently (June 2007) being held in Portsmouth and in Eliot, Maine, with new study circles starting soon in other towns in our region. If interested, download the brochure and email info@thepsi.net to be placed on the interest list.
The Natural Step for Communities Study Circle Brochure (pdf)
The Natural Step for Communities Study Circle Guide (pdf)
Papers relevant to the KEYS: Our Future by Design project
Northern New England Sustainable Communities Implementation Project
Report Series
Four reports about this project were written by Elizabeth Kline, while serving as Director of The Sustainable Communities Program at Tufts University in Medford, MA. (With thanks to Elizabeth for sharing her work with us.) The reports are each downloadable as pdf files.
An Evaluation (pdf) (January, 1996)
Lessons Learned (pdf) (November, 1997)
One Year Later Assessment(pdf) (1999)
A Five Years Later Assessment (pdf) (January, 2002)
Quoting from the fourth report in the series:
The Northern New England Sustainable Communities Project was designed in early 1993 as an experiment in learning. While many people in the United States in the early 1990’s were engaged in conflicts over jobs versus the environment, this project was launched with the intent to explore “new ways to balance economic development and revitalization with the need for environmental and natural resources protection."
The Ford Foundation, through its environment and development program, recognized that “real solutions to environmental problems had to be developed in the communities grappling with these conflicts.”
Elizabeth Kline wrote additional papers on sustainable communities, including:
Putting the Community Back in the Center (pdf) : Community-based Planning, and Development (October 2001)
"What does a healthy, sustainable, or livable community really mean? And how can planning and development help produce the essence of community that people espouse, but don’t necessarily know how to define?"
Sustainable Community: Topics and Indicators (pdf) (May 1997) "...developed for Science Applications International Corporation under a contract with the U.S. EPA. The primary audiences are community practitioners and their technical resource people."
Sustainable Community Indicators (pdf) (Tufts University, January 1995)
Defining a Sustainable Community (pdf) (Tufts University, October 1993)
Quality Development in Massachusetts: An Idea in Progress (pdf) (Quality Development Seminar, Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, State of Massachusetts, August 1987) Quality Growth "enhances natural, social, cultural, and aesthetic resources."
And here is a recent (2007) short paper by Elizabeth, titled "A Team of Leaders."
Kline_Team of Leaders (pdf)
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"Learning to Think and Act Like a Region"
Author(s): McKinney, Matthew and Kevin Essington
(January, 2006) An excellent article about how to plan across boundaries. (Thanks to Paul Schumacher at SMRPC for sending this to us.)
Download here as a pdf.
This article mentions "scenario planning." If you'd like to read more about it (a lot more!), download What If? The Art of Scenario Planning for Nonprofits (111 pages) by the Global Business Network http://www.gbn.com/ which was kindly provided to us by Richard Cummings, Director of Research and Communications at the Great Valley Center, http://www.greatvalley.org/ .
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"Municipal Comprehensive Planning" powerpoint presented in Eliot, Maine on 2/21/2007 by State Planning Office staff. (click here to download as a pdf. This is a large file, over 12MB.)