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Social Capital & Community Building

Australian Government Websites

Community.gov.au
Contains extensive resource information for building social capital, community development resources, community networking, community partnerships, rural communities.
url: http://www.community.gov.au/

A Guide to Community Grants
Produced by the Australian Parliamentary Library this gide provides information on "sources of Commonwealth, State and Territory financial assistance to community groups, links to non-government organisations which may provide community grants & commercial services providing grant information via subscription.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/sp/spgrants.htm

communitybuilders.nsw
This website is an "...interactive electronic clearing house for everyone involved in community level social, economic and environmental renewal including community leaders, community & government workers, volunteers, program managers, academics, policy makers, youth and seniors."
url: http://www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/

Community Services Commission
"The Commission is an independent government watchdog for consumers of community services in New South Wales. We work to ensure that your needs, interests and rights are protected and that you have access to quality services"
url: http://www.csc.nsw.gov.au/csc/index-csc.html

Stronger Families Learning Exchange
An Australian Institute of Family Studies website, "the Stronger Families Learning Exchange aims to contribute to the formation of an evidence base from which to inform policy, practice and research in strengthening families and communities."
url: http://www.aifs.org.au/sf/

Australian Bureau of Statistics Social Capital Theme Page
Includes definitions, discussion papers and information and data for a statistical framework for social capital.
url: ABS Social Capital data

Advocacy & Research

Australian Communities Garden Network
Resources for communities planning to develop community gardens, include case studies.
url: http://www.magna.com.au/~pacedge/garden/

Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research
"Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research (ANZTSR) is a network of people interested in pursuing or encouraging research into the Third Sector in Australia and New Zealand, the hundreds and thousands of private not-for-profit, community or voluntary organisations and the activities of volunteering and philanthropy."
url: http://arts.deakin.edu.au/anztsr/

Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities
Based at Latrobe University in Victoria this Centre is an "...active community development and partnership agent that supports partnership projects with communities." Includes the full text of publications. Publications relate mainly to Victoria.
url: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/csrc/

Institute for Rural Futures
Independent non-profit research centre undertaking applied socio-economic research into rural issues. Includes full text for some publications.
url: http://www.ruralfutures.une.edu.au

University of Queensland Community Research and Research Centre
Web site currently being developed.
url: http://www.uq.edu.au/csrc/

WESTIR: Western Sydney Regional Information and Research Service
"WESTIR is the acronym for Western Sydney (WEST) Information and Research (IR) Service. WESTIR is a not-for-profit community organisation, which is partly funded by the NSW Department of Community Services."
url: http://www.westir.org.au/

Management Alternatives
Paul Bullen's website "...ideas, information, tools, resources and publications that will be useful for small non-profit, community based, welfare, church organisations, particularly those providing human services. The information in the site has been developed through working with people in these organisations."
url: http://www.mapl.com.au/index.html

Overseas & International Websites

IMF Social Capital and Civil Society
url: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/seminar/1999/reforms/fukuyama.htm

Social Capital for Development
"This web site is the World Bank’s link with external partners, researchers, institutions, governments and others interested in understanding and applying social capital for sustainable social and economic development." The website includes a database of abstracts of articles on social capital and a comprehensive bibliography.
url: http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/scapital/

Centre for the Study of Public Policy: Social Capital
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
url: http://www.socialcapital.strath.ac.uk/

National Statistics (UK). Social Capital Information
Includes data and paers relating to the developmeny of a Social Capital project in the UK.
url: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/socialcapital/

Capitale Sociale.it
"Capitale sociale.it is edited by Fabio Sabatini, Phd student in Political Economy at the Department of Public Economics, University of Rome "La Sapienza". " Includes Reading list, Digital Libraries, Web sites and a Directory of Social Scientists interested in social capital and social interactions
url: http://dep.eco.uniroma1.it/~soccap/eng-index.htm

Electronic Documents

Social Capital: Ideas and Articles
Collection of articles on Social Capital part of the Management Alternatives website created by Paul Bullen.
url: http://www.mapl.com.au/

Social Capital Literature Review
Literature review from National Statistics the official UK statistics web site.
url: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/socialcapital/downloads/soccaplitreview.pdf

Social Capital: a Discussion Paper
Analysis of literature and evidence on Social Capital from the Performance and Innovation Unit (UK)
url: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/su/social%20capital/socialcapital.pdf

Social Capital: Literature Review
Published by National Statistics (UK) available for downloading in PDF format.
url: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/socialcapital/downloads/soccaplitreview.pdf