Resources

ENP Maps

• Google MyMaps – Displays elementary boundaries, council districts, and community partners
• ENP Partnership Map – Displays ENP programs and community partners by elementary school 
• Poverty Map – Displays Fresno concentration of poverty by elementary school
• Pollution Map – Displays Fresno pollution levels by elementary school
• School Ratings – Displays Fresno school ratings according to GreatSchools.org
• Fresno City Council Districts
• Mini Maps – Poverty, Pollution, School Ratings, and Council Districts on one page

Resources

• CalEnviroScreen 5.0 – A screening tool used to help identify communities disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution and with population characteristics that make them more sensitive to pollution.
• Tree Equity Map – Trees are critical urban infrastructure that are essential to public health and well-being. Tree Equity Score was created to help address damaging environmental inequities by prioritizing human-centered investment in areas with the greatest need.
• Census Explorer – Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States. We provide thousands of interactive data maps going back to 1790.

• Money, Race and Success: How Your School District Compares
• Five-by-Five Placement Reports – “at a glance” display on how a district or school is performing on the state indicators. They graphically display which schools or student groups are: a) performing well, or b) in need of additional support.
• School SACR Reports – School Accountability Report Card (SARC) Reports provided to the California Department of Education.
• Greatschools.org School Ratings
• Census Reporter – Census Reporter is an independent project to make data from the American Community Survey (ACS) easier to use. Get detailed information by census block.

Books:

• To Transform a City: Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole City by  Eric Swanson & Sam Williams
• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
• What Every Church Member Should Know about Poverty by Bill Ehlig & Ruby K. Payne
• Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just by Timothy Keller
• Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development by Wayne Gordon & John M. Perkins
• Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor by Robert D. Lupton
• Neighborhood Mapping: How to Make Your Church Invaluable to the Community by John Dr. Fuder
• Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It by Robert D. Lupton
• The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity by Soong-Chan Rah
• A Theology as Big as the City by Raymond J. Bakke

Websites/Blogs:

• Christian Community Development Association  – We strengthen and inspire Christian Community Development practitioners for community transformation through equipping and connecting.
• CCD Collective – Join a Christ-centered movement designed to encourage one another and foster the onboarding of next-generation leaders to the work of Christian Community Development in Fresno
• Missio Alliance – Curating content and conversations around the most pressing needs of the church to foster meaningful change.