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There are three long sections of resource links and downloads. Those dealing with homelessness follow the reports listed below. After the section on homelessness you will find a section on violence and violence prevention. Below that are reaources on Nonprofit Organizations: Leadership, Management, and the Nonprofit Environment.
Reducing Violence by Enhancing Human and Social Development: a 40 -Year Plan for Waterloo Region - (72 KB PDF file)
This report has been provided to the Crime Prevention Council of the Region of Waterloo who owns it. Comments, questions, and enquiries about the report and next steps should be directed to the CPC, attention: Christiane Sadeler (schris@region.waterloo.on.ca) and/or watch the CPC website (http://www.preventingcrime.net) for future community processes.
Capacity Building in Arts, Culture, and Heritage Organizations: Knowledge from the Field - (1.5Mb PDF File)
The Donor's Guide to Canadian Charities - (376K PDF File)
A simple guide to becoming an effective donor, including tips on sorting out the good organization from the good pitch.
Working Together: Maximizing the Impact of Community Services - (390K PDF File)
A survey and analysis of best practices in community collaboration from across the United States and Canada, with suggestions for implementing successful community collaboration.
The Effective Donor's Brochure - (25K PDF File)
A two-sided brochure for your clients covering donations planning and dealing with direct mail, phone, and door-to-door donations requests.
Resources On Homelessness and Affordable Housing
A Homebuilders Policy View on Inclusionary Zoning
Aboriginal Peoples and Homelessness: Literature Review
Accessory Apartments: Characteristics, Issues, and Opportunities - (712K PDF File)
Affordable Rental Housing Supply - (112K PDF File)
Alternate Tenure Arrangements - (104K PDF File)
Arguments Against Inclusionary Zoning You Can Anticipate Hearing
Bibliography on Homelessness: Canada A-G
Bibliography on Homelessness: Canada G-W
Bibliography on Homelessness: Children and Youth
Bibliography on Homelessness: Homeless Women
Bibliography on Homelessness: Periodicals
Bibliography on Youth and Housing - (112K PDF File)
Building Partnerships with Local Government
Building Solutions to Homelessness
Canadian Family Income 1999 - (120k PDF File)
Canadian Housing Conditions - (192k PDF File)
Community Plan on Homelessness in London - (584k PDF File)
Demographic Changes and Real Housing Prices in Canada - (96k PDF File)
Documentation of Best Practices Addressing Homelessness - (608k PDF File)
Emerging Solutions - (840k PDF File)
Federation of Canadian Municipalities: A National Affordable Housing Strategy - (176k PDF File)
Homelessness and Health - (80k PDF File)
Homelessness: Parliamentary Research Branch
Homelessness: Responding to the Hard to House
Housing Affordability: A Children's Issue - (328k PDF File)
Housing Canada's Children - (200k PDF File)
Housing Canada's Youth - (176k PDF File)
Housing Conditions in Canadian Metropolitan Areas - (168k PDF File)
Housing Policy Options for Women Living in Urban Poverty - (728k PDF File)
Housing Subsidies Can Help Long Term Welfare Recipients - (40k PDF File)
Housing Trust Funds in Canada - (144k PDF File)
Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 2000 - (296k PDF File)
Impact of Changes in Housing Finance on Older Urban Areas - (136k PDF File)
Impact of Non-Market Housing on Property Values
Inclusionary Zoning and Affordable Housing
Inclusionary Zoning: The Developers Perspective
Inventory of Projects and Programs Addressing Homelessness
Local Responses to Homelessness - (8.2MB PDF File)
Low Income Trends in the 1990s Municipal Planning for Affordable Housing - (96k PDF File)
Municipal Regulatory Initiatives: Providing for Affordable Housing - (96k PDF File)
National Housing Research Committee, Fall 2000 - (232k PDF File)
No Room of Her own: A Literature Review on Women and Homelessness - (232k PDF File)
Ontario Roundtable on Best Practices Addressing Homelessness
Ontario Social Housing Business Transfer: Non-Profit and Co-Op Providers - (1.2MB PDF File)
Philanthropic Support for Affordable Housing - (112k PDF File)
Physical Housing Conditions and the Well-Being of Children
Prevention of Homelessness Among Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Profile and Policy Review of Homelessness in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta - (344k PDF File)
Profile Policy Review, and Analysis of Homelessness in British Columbia - (704k PDF File)
Property Values Unaffected by Non-Market Housing
Relationship Between Homelessness and Health and Social Services - (272k PDF File)
Removing Barriers to the Development of Affordable Housing
Removing Barriers to the Development of Affordable Housing
Research Counters NIMBY Survey of Canadians' Attitudes Towards Homelessness
Taking Responsibility for Homelessness: An Action Plan for Toronto - (1.4MB PDF File)
The Administration of Individual Development Accounts
The Community Action Plan in Hamilton-Wentworth - (280k PDF File)
The Condition of Canada's Housing Stock - (392k PDF File)
The Costs of Homelessness in British Columbia - (408k PDF File)
The Government of Canada's Homelessness Initiative - (64k PDF File)
The Impact of Supportive Housing For Homeless People With Severe MI - (176k PDF File)
The Incidence and Depth of Child Poverty
The Municipal Role in Meeting Ontario's Housing Needs: Environmental Scan - (232k PDF File)
The Municipal Role in Meeting Ontario's Housing Needs: Handbook - (224k PDF File)
The Progress of Canada's Children 2001: Highlights
The Progress of Canada's Children 2001: Summary
The Rental Housing Problem in Ontario and What to Do About It - (280k PDF File)
The Role of Public-Private Partnerships In Producing Affordable Housing - (152k PDF File)
The Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness
Three Studies on Municipal Infrastructure - (56k PDF File)
Understanding Private Rental Housing Investment in Canada - (368k PDF File)
What is the Illinois Affordable Housing Trust Fund?
What We Know About the Effects of Asset Holding
Women on the Rough Edge: A Decade of Change for Homeless Women - (120k PDF File)
Working Group on Homelessness Meeting Summary
Violence and Violence Prevention
A Community Indicators System for Winnipeg
A Community-Wide Approach for the Prevention of Low Birth Weight
A Multi-Level Analysis of Community Coordinating Councils
A Social and Economic Impact Study of the Ontario Safe Streets Act on Toronto Squeegee Workers
Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults
Abuse in Lesbian Relationships: Information and Resources
Advancing Prevention Research on Child Abuse, Youth Violence, and Domestic Violence
Age 21 Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Title I Chicago Child-Parent Center Program Executive Summary
Quality Counts! Assessing the Quality of Daycare Services Based on the Quebec
Longitudinal Study of Child Development
Assessing Violence Against Women: A Statistical Profile
Benefit-Cost Analysis and Crime Prevention
Benefits and Costs of Prevention And Early Intervention Programs for Youth
The Benefits and Costs of Good Child Care
Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth
Blueprint for Building Evidence-Based Community Partnerships in Corrections
Breaking The Pattern: How Communities Can Help
Bridging the Resilience Gap: Research to Practice
Building Bridges Across Systems: State Innovations to Address and Prevent Family Violence
Building Community Capacity for Violence Prevention
Building Emotional Intelligence: Darwin Reconsidered
Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect – 2003
Canadians’ Use of Crime Prevention Measures 2004
Child abuse and neglect investigations in Canada: Comparing 1998 and 2003 data
Child Development is Economic Development
Child Luring Through the Internet
Child Witnesses in Canada: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going
Childhood Aggression and Exposure to Violence in the Home
Children and Youth as Victims of Violent Crime
Community-Based Youth Violence Prevention
The Comparative Costs And Benefits Of Programs To Reduce Crime
A comparison of large urban, small urban and rural crime rates, 2005
Competence and Resilience Research: Lessons for Prevention
Cost-Benefit of Prevention: Review of research literature
The Cost Of Providing Health Care Services: To Women Survivors Of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States
The Costs of Crime: Who Pays and How Much
The Cost Of Violence/Stress At Work And The Benefits Of A Violence/Stress-Free Working Environment
Court Careers of a Canadian Birth Cohort
Court referrals for a group of youth and young adults
The Crime Prevention Digest II
Crime Statistics in Canada, 2006
Criminal Victimization in the Workplace
Cutting Crime Significantly: Investing in Effective Prevention
Cyber-Bullying: Our Kids' New Reality
Dating Violence: An issue at any age
Dating Violence Among Adolescents
The Development of Police-Reported Delinquency Among Canadian Youth Born in 1987 and 1990
Delivering Preventive Services in the New Millennium
Developing a Comprehensive Approach to Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
The Developmental Ecology of Urban Males’ Youth Violence
Discussion Guide for Communities Implementing Child Protection Mediation
Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return
Domestic Violence Prevention: A Workplace Initiative
Early Childhood Education for All: A Wise Investment
The Economic Costs and Consequences of Child Abuse in Canada
The Economic Costs Of Illicit Drugs And Drug Enforcement
The Economic Dimensions of Interpersonal Violence
Effects Of Assets And Deficits On The Social Control Of At-Risk Behavior Among Youth
The Effects Of Restorative Justice Programming: A Review Of The Empirical
Engaging Community Residents to Prevent Violence
An examination of sex differences in delinquency
Exploring Crime Patterns in Canada
Family Violence and People with Intellectual Disabilities
Family Violence: Background Paper: Canadian Association of Chiefs Of Police
Family Violence: A Fact Sheet From The Department Of Justice Canada
Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile 2005
Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile 2007
The Financial Risks of Workplace Violence
The Fiscal Impacts of Universal Pre -K: Case Study Analysis for Three States
Forcible Confinement in Canada, 2007
Fostering Resiliency in Kids: Protective Factors in the Family, School and Community
Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women
General Social Survey on Victimization, Cycle 18: An Overview of Findings
The Good Behavior Game: A Best Practice Candidate as a Universal Behavioral Vaccine
Growing Up in North America: Child Health and Safety in Canada, the United States, and Mexico
Harm Reduction: Policy And Practice
Health Related Costs of Violence Against Women in Canada
The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 40
Immigrant Settlement and Social Inclusion in Canada
Impacts and Consequences of Victimization, GSS 2004
Liberal Morality And The Myths Of Drug Criminalization
Measurement Issues In Child Maltreatment And Family Violence Prevention Programs
Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Crime and Justice
Measuring Violence Against Women Statistical Trends 2006
Milestones Of A Global Campaign For Violence Prevention 2005
Myths and Realities about Youth Justice
Neighbourhood Characteristics and the Distribution of Crime: Edmonton, Halifax and Thunder Bay
An Overview of the Differences Between Police-Reported and Victim-Reported Crime, 1997
Peacemaking Circles Pilot Project in St. James Town and Regent Park
Physical abuse of children in Canada
Police Resources in Canada 2007
Policy: Addressing Fear and Violence in Communities
Preventing Crime with Quality Child Care: A Critical Investment in Ohio's Safety
Preventing violence and harassment in the workplace
Nonprofit Organizations: Boards, Management, and Operational Effectiveness
2008 DonorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Analysis
Accountability and Transparency
Analyzing Outcome Information: Getting The Most From Data
Arts and Culture Organizations in Canada
Assessing Performance: Evaluation Practices & Perspectives in Canada's Voluntary Sector
Assigning Economic Value To Volunteer Activity: Eight Tools For Efficient Program Management
Attracting The Next Generation Of Voluntary Sector Leaders: Learning From The CEI Experience
Benchmarks of Excellence for the Voluntary Sector
Better Partnerships, Better Results
Board Practices Of Especially Effective And Less Effective Local Nonprofit Organizations
Boards of Midsize Nonprofits: Their Needs and Challenges
Boomers Are Ready for Nonprofits But Are Nonprofits Ready for Them?
A Brand New World For Nonprofits
Building Blocks for Strong Communities: Key Findings and Recommendations
Building Blocks for Strong Communities: Results of Key Informant Interviews
Building Blocks for Strong Communities: A Profile of Small- and Medium-Sized Organizations in Canada
Building Capacity in Nonprofit Organizations
Building Diverse Community Based Coalitions
The Business Contributions to Canadian Communities
Business Support for Employee Volunteers in Canada
Canada's Charities: Struggling to Make Ends Meet
Canada's Nonprofit Maze
The Canadian Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector in Comparative Perspective
The Capacity Challenges of Nonprofit & Voluntary Organizations in Rural Ontario
Caring Canadians, Involved Canadians
Caring Canadians – Highlights From the 2007 Survey of Giving, Volunteering, and Participating
Caught In The Middle: What Small, Non-Profit Organizations Need To Survive
Civil Society and Public Policy: A Directory of Non-Profit Organizations Engaged in Public Policy
Community Development A Guide For Grantmakers On Fostering Better Outcomes Through Good Process
Competition in the Voluntary Sector: The Case of Community Based Trainers in Alberta
Coping With Change: Human Resource Management In Canada's Non-Profit Sector
Defensive Framing: When It Seems They Are Really Out to Get You
Deliberate Relationships Between Government and the Non-Profit Sector
Developing A Policy Initiative
Developing a Risk Management Strategy
Developing A Typology Of The Voluntary Health Sector In Canada: Definition And Classification Issues
Developing Job Descriptions for Board Members of Nonprofit Organizations
Donating Behaviour And Attitudes: An Exploratory Study Of The Differences In Age Cohorts
Donors To Arts And Culture Organizations In Canada
Empowering the Nonprofit Sector
Essentials Of Operational Risk Management
An Environmental Scan on Volunteering and Improving Volunteering
Financial Challenges of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations
Formal and Informal Volunteering and Giving: Regional and Community Patterns in Canada
Funding Matters for Our Communities
The Future of Social Innovation in Canada
Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2008 Generosity Index
Getting Ready for Media Advocacy or How to Get Your Ducks in a Row
Getting What We Pay For: Low Overhead Limits Nonprofit Effectiveness
Giving and Volunteering: The Role of Religion
Global Civil Society Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector
Governance in the Voluntary Sector: Summary of Case Study Findings
The Government-Non-Profit Relationship: Contracted Service Delivery, Governance &
Grassroots Governance: Governance and the Non-Profit Sector
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts
High-Engagement Philanthropy: A Bridge to a More Effective Social Sector
How to Assess Nonprofit Financial Performance
Impacs Media Communications Toolkit
Indicators of Effectiveness: Understanding and Improving Foundation Performance
The Inter-agency Services Collaboration Project
The Interchangeability of Paid Staff and Volunteers in Nonprofit Organizations
Job Quality In Non-Profit Organizations
Knowledge Sharing In Charities
Knowledge, Skills And Strength: Achievements In The Voluntary Sector 2001-2005
Learning As We Go: Making Evaluation Work For Everyone
Learning Outside the Lines: Six Innovative Programs That Reach Youth
Lessons In Leadership: How Young People Change Their Communities And Themselves
Making American Foundations Relevant
Measuring the Value That Your Organization Contributes to the Community
Meeting Funder Compliance A Case Study of Challenges, Time Spent, and Dollars Invested
Moving Policy Forward Through Collaborative Practice
National Study Of Board Governance Practices In The Non-Profit And Voluntary Sector In Canada
The Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector in Ontario
Nonprofit Governance Index 2007
The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle
Nonprofit Strategic Alliances Case Studies: Lessons from the Trenches
Not All Grants are Created Equal
On The Front Lines Of Toronto's Community Service Sector
Ontario Hospital Volunteers: How Hospital CEOs Perceive their Contributions
Passion and Commitment Under Stress: Human Resource Issues in Canada's
Non-profit Sector - A Synthesis Report
Patterns of Citizen Participation and the Civic Core in Canada
PLAN THE WORK: A Handbook for Strategic Communications Planning for Not-for-Profit Organizations
A Portrait of the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector in Rural Ontario
Practical Considerations for Conducting Research with Marginalized Populations: A Case Study
Privacy Legislation Increasingly Applied To Charitable And Non-Profit Organizations
Project Evaluation Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
Retirement Plans In The Voluntary Sector A Primer For Discussion
The Role And Impact Of Chairs Of Nonprofit Organization Boards Of Directors: An Exploratory Study
Satellite Account of Nonprofit Institutions and Volunteering: 1997-2001
Satellite Account of Nonprofit Institutions and Volunteering 1997 to 2003
Satellite Account of Nonprofit Institutions and Volunteering 1997 to 2004
Satellite Account of Nonprofit Institutions and Volunteering 1997 t0 2005
Small and Rural Charities: Making a Difference for Canadians 2008
Strategic Information for Community Organizations on Volunteering and Donating in Ontario
Strengthening Canada's Charitable Sector: Regulatory Reform
Strengthening Organizational Capacity
Strengthening the Capacity Of Executive Directors
Strengthening the Capacity of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations to Serve Canadians
Strengthening Voluntary Sector Capacity Through Technology
Ten Keys to Successful Strategic Planning
Toward a Labour Force Strategy for Canada's Voluntary & Non-profit Sector
Treading the Boards: A Self-Assessment Framework For Board Performance
Understanding Canadian Volunteers
Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Project Discussion Paper Demonstrating Community Benefit
Volunteers in Arts and Culture Organizations in Canada
We Can't Afford to Do Business This Way
What all Board Members of Non-profits Need to Know
What Do Voluntary Sector Leaders Do?
What do we know about the voluntary sector? An overview 2000
What You Should Know About Nonprofits
Where Canadians Donate: Donating by Type of Organization
Why Should Your Non-Profit Develop A Communications Plan
Women in Poverty – Online Resources 2009
Women in Poverty – Toolkit 2009
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