Apr 2008	New Directions offers a summer research fellowship at Stony Brook University for a study of "Local Business and the Community." It is hoped that the findings will help us discover ways to support local business as a community asset.
Mar 2007	"Town-Civic Partnerships" starts a dialog on how to organize the suburbs. Summary
Feb 2007	Civic Dialog offers a place for people to express their views. The first entries are a comment about the meaning of "deliverable" in the context of civic renewal and a Newsday editorial about community land trusts--Civic Dialog.
Jan 2007	"A Man on a Mission," Newsday LI Life cover story about Bob Mulvey, New Directions and promotion of community land trusts--pdf file. text-only version.

News

Promotion of Community Land Trusts as a civic tool for provision of permanently affordable housing received big boosts in January 2008 with grants from Citi Foundation and Ford Foundation.

The Alliance for Stronger Communities is working to organize a Farmingdale Community Forum, and incorporation of a Farmingdale Community Land Trust is planned. New Directions, in partnership with the Alliance for Stronger Communities, has submitted project applications to a number of funders. See Communities--Farmingdale.

New Directions Community-Based Research Institute, Inc. attracts and assembles multi-disciplinary teams of university researchers and their students and brings them to work with civic groups which have demonstrated a willingness and a desire to become active stewards of their neighborhoods or communities.

New Directions designs and facilitates customized leadership training sessions which allow the civic groups to profitably initiate community-based research with, by and for the mutual benefit of the researchers, their students and the community.

For information about the schedule of upcoming events, the institute's mission, a description of the services offered, history of New Directions, the Board of Directors, staff and supporters please see section, The Institute.

The civic groups that have worked with us, the projects they have undertaken and the neighborhoods and communities they represent are introduced in the section, Communities.

The section, Academic Associates, is a Web site for members of the Academic Associates Network, consisting of university educators and researchers who are interested in doing community-based research and placing their students in service-learning positions with civic groups.

Community-Building Partners are indispensible to the final implementation of plans formed in response to the results of research into the needs and opportunities of local communities. Here we introduce some of the business, non-profit and local government partners and review the steps that led them to be thus engaged.


	Finding ways to build community assets