Resources for People Doing the Work
These tools, frameworks, and conversations are built from real work in real places. Take what's useful. Share what you learn.
Places People Change Resources
This set of resources equips you to build belonging and shared action in your neighborhood. They take you from understanding the case for neighborhood-centered engagement to facilitating it alongside the people who live there, with what you need at every stage of the work.
Quick Start
A free, introductory resource for belonging and shared action
Blueprint
A detailed methodology for community engagement
101 Tools
An action-oriented companion, with ready-to-use tools
Quick Start Guide
What you Get
Foundational Concepts
Best For
Orientation
Price
Free
Action
Download
Full Blueprint
What you Get
The complete methodology of Blueprint
Best For
Principles & Strategies
Price
$20
Action
Purchase
Toolkit
What you Get
101 tools for action
Best For
Putting the framework to work
Price
$35
Action
Purchase
Work With Us
What you Get
Coaching, facilitation, and on-the-ground support
Best For
Teams ready to go deeper
Price
Contact us
Action
Get in touch
"We knew community engagement mattered, but our attempts always fell short. Places People Change gave us the language and a practical path forward. Anyone doing authentic neighborhood work will find real value here."
— Samantha Shaak, PhD, Executive Director, Leonard Parker Pool Institute for Health
The team behind Places People Change brings hands-on experience in dozens of neighborhoods across the US —founders, executives, practitioners, public health leaders, and creatives who are your co-conspirators in place-based, people-centered change.
Place-Based vs.
Based-in-a-Place
This is a portion of a White Paper developed for an emerging place-based partnership in Sugar Hill, GA. It serves as a primer for the meaning of place-based social impact, comparing it to efforts that are simply based-in-a-place. Along with foundational frameworks in the field, it introduces thought leaders and exemplars shaping the future of the work. This is a great introduction to the place-based industry.
Ecosystems of Belonging
Congruence developed a model we call the “Ecosystem of Belonging." It emerged while researching and writing a white paper for The Pool Institute for Health in Allentown, PA. The white paper explores the evidence that place-based investments (housing, education, etc) are more effective when implemented in people-centered ways (social infrastructure, civic muscle, etc).
The full paper will be available this Fall. For now, click to download the visual model of the Ecosystem of Belonging.
Listen to the Podcast!
Places People Change Podcast — Conversations about the places shaping people's lives, and the ways people are shaping those places.
