RECURSOS

Estas empresas y organizaciones locales están trabajando para mejorar nuestra comunidad de muchas maneras diferentes. Visite sus sitios web para aprender más.

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Concord Art Association

Concord Communities Alliance

Contra Costa County Elections

Cutting Edge Capital

Ensuring Opportunity Campaign

Family Economic Security Partnership

Family Independence Initiative

League of Women Voters

Monument Crisis Center

Prosperity Now

Rainbow Community Center

The Abundant Community

The Sirolli Institute

"Neto es uno de los mejores grupos de acción comunitaria que he experimentado ... ustedes y todos los participantes son muy acogedores, organizados, aceptados y motivados. La parte de bienvenida realmente me impresiona, siempre se toma tiempo con cada participante y les permite preséntese ... y usted hace que cada persona se sienta valorada. ¡Gracias por todo eso! "

 – Tammy Moulton

HERRAMIENTAS

Informes descargables

• All Politics is Local (and Personal)

• Building Social Capital and Political Will through Place-Based Initiatives

• Missing Links-An Interpersonal Theory of Social Change

• The Opportunity Makers

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Recomendamos estos libros que tratan la relación del capital social con nuestra comunidad, economía y democracia:

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• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, por Robert Putnam

• Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, por Francis Fukuyama

• The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, por Francis Fukuyama

• Political Order and Political Decay, por Francis Fukuyama

• The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future, por Joseph E. Stiglitz

• Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, por Nicholas A. Christakis y‎ James H. Fowler

• The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, por Richard Wilkerson y Kate Pickett

• Capital in the Twenty-First Century, por Thomas Picketty

• Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, por Kevin Phillips

• The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits, por John McKnight

• Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies, por Ernesto Sirolli

• The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty Is Wrong, por Mauricio L. Miller

• In Their Own Hands: How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development, por Jeffrey Ashe,‎ Kyla Jagger Neilan,‎ Frances Moore Lappé

• The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods, por John McKnight y Peter Block