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A Community Planning & Development professional in a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administers the grant software online that serve communities project & finance their incubation & development, increase their capacity to govern, & provide shelter & services for homeless people. HUD occurs as national program, however HUD will bring funding directly to big cities & counties, & for little cities & counties, usually to state government. HUD's computer software include a Community Development Prevent Grant Program & a Page program.

National Association of Development Organizations
Provides training, information, networking, and representation for regional development organizations in small metropolitan and rural areas of the United States.

National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
Not-for-profit organization acting as advocates for, and supporting local community credit unions in over 40 states.

UK Business Incubation
An independent body (with government backing) that promotes and supports business incubation in Britain.

Neighborhood Communities
Online community resourcing and support center. Helping communities support each other with an emphasis on the non-virtual.

Collaborative Economics
Helps public and private leadership groups develop and implement collaborative strategies for creating high-performing economic communities.

NeighborWorks Net
Information relating to a host of community-revitalization efforts from across the United States, focused on revitalizing declining neighborhoods by stabilizing home ownership and preserving housing affordable to low- and moderate-income families.

Western Rural Development Center
Hopes to strengthen rural communities by facilitating development research with universities and communities.

Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development
Information about policy analyses, advocacy, training courses and workshops.

The New Rules Project
Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics.

Neighborhood Design Center
A nonprofit organization founded in Baltimore, Maryland by volunteers dedicated to providing urban communities with access to professional, conceptual architectural, landscape, design and planning services.


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