The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland has published a new book, Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development. Electronic copies are available at http://www.community-wealth.org/articles/index.html

The preface, authored by Ted Howard, Director of the Democracy Collaborative, appears at the bottom of this email.

The Democracy Collaborative's website includes a section on university-community partnerships (www.community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/universities/index.html) and another that focuses more broadly on anchor institutions (www.community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/anchors/index.html).

They update their website on a quarterly basis and their work on universities, community partnerships, and the economic role of anchor institutions is ongoing. If you have suggestions for additional links and information they might want to add to the site, please email them to the report's principal author Steve Dubb at sgdubb@yahoo.com.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health manages a number of related listservs you may be interested in subscribing to: anchor institutions, community-engaged scholarship, community-based participatory research and community partner peer mentoring/advocacy. To learn more and sign up, go to http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/faq.html#Listservs