Resources
Maps
ENP Map & Asset Map (Organizations)
CalEnviroScreen 3.0 – 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.
Health and Active Transportation in Fresno County Map – Fresno County Transportation Needs Assessment map for health conditions compared their locations with existing active transportation opportunities.
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.
Race by Census Tract – Browse population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations and patterns of housing development.
Education
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
Church & Theology
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
- A New Kind of Big: How Churches of Any Size Can Partner to Transform Communities by Chip Sweney & Kitti Murray
- 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 – Good book on how white churches need to wake up to the coming city reality.
- A Theology as Big as the City by Raymond J. Bakke
Websites/Blogs:
- Christian Community Development – ccda.org
- Neighborhood Transformation – neighborhoodtransformation.net
- Verge – vergenetwork.org
- Missio Alliance – missioalliance.org