Partnership Development

AHEC/Community Partners


Association for Progressive Communications    
"The Association for Progressive Communications is a global network of non-governmental organisations whose mission is to empower and support organisations, social movements and individuals in and through the use of information and communication technologies to build strategic communities and initiatives for the purpose of making meaningful contributions to equitable human development, social justice, participatory political processes and environmental sustainability."

Center for Community Change
Center for Community Change - helping low-income people build powerful, effective organizations through which they can change their communities and public policies for the better.

Center For Health Leadership
The Center for Health Leadership & Practice is a leadership training, consultation and resource center serving US and international health leaders and organizations.


The Change Project
The Change Project is dedicated to using the power of the turbulence around us to help build a world that works. We are an independent organization supported solely by our writing, speaking, and consulting.

Civic Practices Network
Born of the movement for a "new citizenship" and "civic revitalization," CPN is a collaborative and nonpartisan project dedicated to bringing practical tools for public problem solving into community and institutional settings across America.

Communication Initiative

Community Involvement in Change and Technology 
This section on Community Involvement provides tools for involving your community in the change and technology planning and implementation processes. Involving the community helps to build support and to ensure that diverse needs and viewpoints are included in future plans for the district.

Community Tool Box
To promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources.

Health Forum - Welcome to Health Forum
The Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services that advance leadership for health. These services empower health care providers, suppliers, payers and consumers with new knowledge and learning toward the advancement of organizational leadership, market leadership, clinical and medical leadership and community leadership.

Hesperian Foundation
The Hesperian Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to improving the health of people in poor communities throughout the world by making health information accessible. We produce books and other educational resources for community-based health care.

Internet Non profit Center: Information For and About Nonprofit Organizations
The library is a repository for publications, information and data about nonprofit organizations and the nonprofit sector, generally by sources other than nonprofits themselves.  INC hosts the original Nonprofit FAQ, an encyclopedia of information for nonprofit leaders.

International Healthy Cities Foundation
This is a place where people interested in addressing urban and community issues along with concerns with health and quality of life issues in their communities can join and share information.

The Kellogg Collection
The Collection contains high quality rural community development materials funded by the Kellogg Foundation and other selected sponsors of recognized rural programs. Guidebooks, manuals, workshop materials, reports, books, and videos are included.

KU Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development
Throughout the world, people are building healthier communities. They join in common purpose to promote community and public health, child and youth development, and community development. We are working together to transform the conditions that matter to local people.

Memorial Health System; South Bend, Indiana
We at Memorial Hospital & Health System strive toward providing access to compassionate, high quality health services. We serve the regional community responsibly by offering needed health services in a manner that benefits the community while preserving the hospital's and system's vitality.

National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency
The National Endowment for the Arts, an investment in America's living cultural heritage, serves the public good by nurturing the expression of human creativity, supporting the cultivation of community spirit, and fostering the recognition and appreciation of the excellence and diversity of our nation's artistic accomplishments.

N.C. Center for Nonprofits
Get information to help you manage, lead, and support your organization effectively.

NC Cooperative Extension
Helping individuals, families, and communities put research-based knowledge to work to improve their lives.

N.C. Justice and Community Development Center
The North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center (Justice Center) is anon-profit, non-partisan organization founded and governed by low-income people, non-profit groups and legal and community leaders. The Justice Center is dedicated to helping low income and working poor North Carolinians escape poverty and achieve economic security.

North Carolina Progress Board
The North Carolina Progress Board aims to form a vision of North Carolina in the next 20 to 30 years. With goals and targets set, state leaders and agencies can work now toward making that vision a reality -- and helping each of us attain the best quality of life possible.

What If . . .
What If . . . is about "bridging the gap between what is and what's possible." In addition to individual coaching, What If . . . offers seminars, talks, consulting and articles that help people and organizations imagine and build toward their own best future.