The following is just a partial list of resources available to Neighborhood Groups at Neighborhood Connections: Information City and Community Services Brochures & Pamphlets City Documents & Maps • Architectural & Historic Inventories • City of Pasadena Street Map • City Telephone Directory • General Plan • Pasadena Capital and Operating Budgets • Pasadena Municipal Code • Zoning Map • Committee and Commission Files (includes rosters, minutes, etc.) • Community Bulleting Board Current Neighborhood Issues (subject files by council district i.e. Community Health Center, N. Lake Specific Plan, Rose Bowl, etc.) Current City-Wide Issues (subject files i.e. Traffic Calming, Street Vendors, Graffiti, etc.) Neighborhood Groups (information from cities across the country) • Pasadena Journal • Pasadena Neighborhood Group's Directory • Pasadena Star News • Pasadena Weekly • Telephone Directories (including the Haines Criss-Cross Directory) • Zip Code Directories Starting a Neighborhood Group Building a Better Neighborhood pamphlet By-laws (outline and other neighborhood examples) Non-profit Corporation Handbook (with 3 1/2" disc) Publication Assistance Computer, Printer Examples of neighborhood group's flyers, newsletters, etc. Staplers Typewriter Variety of colored paper Copier Other Services • Coffee Pots - 2 (for use at meetings and block parties) • Easels and chart-sized paper • Folding chairs - 20 (can be reserved for meetings and block parties) • Name tags and markers • Cash boxes - 4 • Bullhorn - 1 • 5 gallon igloo beverage cooler - 1 • 19 gallon ice tubs - 1 • Orange reflective work vests - 10 • 6' by 2 1/2' table - 2 • Rooftop number stencils Publications Bibliography • Building Communities from the Inside Out • The California Nonprofit Corporation Handbook • Check it Out: Learn the Secrets of Using Publicly Available Sources to Get the Facts... • The Citizens Guide to Planning • City of Quartz • Collect Your Court Judgment: 19 Ways to Get Paid When You Win a Lawsuit • "Common Ground: Magazine for Condominium and Homeowner Associations" • Common Purpose: Strengthening Families & Neighborhoods to Rebuild America • Community and the Politics of Place • Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving: Now and Beyond • Creating Community Anywhere: Finding Support and Connection in a Fragment World • The Death and Life of Great American Cities • The Geography of Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century • Home from Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape • How to Make Meetings Work • The Impacts of Supportive Housing on Neighborhoods and Neighbors: Final • Report • "Including Everyone; Ensuring Neighborhood Organizations Represent the Neighborhood" • The Landlord Law Book Vol.2: Evictions • Let the People Decide: Neighborhood Organizations in America • The Living City • Making Cities Work • Making of a Drug-Free America • Neighbor Law: Trees, Fences, Boundaries and Noise • Non-Money: That "Other Money" You Didn't Know You Had • "Prerequisites to Power: Six Principles for Building Community Preservation" • The Quickening of America: Rebuilding our Nation, Remaking Our Lives • Rebirth of Urban Democracy • Safe Homes - Safe Neighborhoods Stopping Crimes Where You Live • Saving the Neighborhood: You can Fight Developers and Win! • The Simple Act of Planting a Tree: Healing Your Neighborhood, Your City, and Your World • Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood • "Successful Neighborhood Self-Help: Some Lessons Learned" • Solving Sprawl • The Tipping Point • "Traffic Calming: The Solution to Urban Traffic and a New Vision for Neighborhood Livability" • What Kids Need to Succeed • The Winnable War: A Community Guide to Eradicating Street Drug Markets • Wrights Complete Disaster and Survival Manual