Dr. Henry Tam has just been named "Head of Civil Renewal"

in the British Government’s Home Affairs Department. He emailed a

list of people to ask their advice about excellent projects in the

US. I gave him my quick "top-ten list" of US projects

in civic renewal:

• Local Initiatives Support Corporation

  (LISC): support for urban renewal

• The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), especially in San Antonio,

  TX: community organizing with a religious flavor

• Asset-Based

  Community Development (ABCD)

• Focus St. Louis: community

  planning in a metropolitan region

• Campus Compact: service-learning

  and civic engagement in higher education

• Public Achivement: civic

  education

• America Speaks: large-scale

  public deliberations, for example, about how to rebuild the World

  Trade Center site in NYC

• Study Circles Resource

  Center: organizing deliberation in communities

• The Quincy Library Group: just

  an example of local stakeholder negotiations that resolve difficult

  regulatory issues in the enviromental field

• Community Based Approaches

  within the Environmental Protection Agency