February/March 1983 RAIN Page 17 ACCESS: Alternative Service Delivery PUBLICATIONS Community Service Partnerships Milton Kotler Center for Responsive Governance P.O.Box 42120 Washington, DC 20015 $6.00,1982,60 pp. This is the single best overview about new community service partnerships, focusing on neighborhood organization roles. It includes many examples of service being carried out by neighborhood and community based organizations around the country. A Positive Alternative: Redesigning Public Service Delivery Citizens League 84 S Sixth St. Minneapolis, MN 55402 $3.00,1982,21pp. This is a report prepared by the Citizens League to increase the dialogue about alternatives to cutting services or raising taxes by redesigning service delivery at the neighborhood level. Rediscovering Governance Series SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 There are about 50 publications in this series by SRI, several of which are relevant to the search for new partnerships in delivering community services. You can start with An Overview of SRI's Research into Nonservice Approaches to Public Problems ($3.00). Others include Using Nonservice Approaches to Neighborhood Problems — A Guide for Local Officials ($10.00); Nonservice Approaches to Refugee Resettlement — A Guidefor Local Communities ($10.00); and Nonservice Approaches to Problems of the Aged ($5.00). Citizen Coproduction ofPublic Services; An Annotated Bibliography Stephen L. Percy, Paula C. Baker Council of Planning Librarians 1313 East 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637 $4.00,1981,12 pp. This is an annotated bibliography that focuses on public services carried out under a variety of formal and informal compacts between citizens, community based organizations, and government agencies. Economic Development and Law Center Report National Economic Development and Law Center 2150 Shattuck Ave., #300 Berkeley, CA 94704 Quarterly, $16/yr (free, if eligible) The Center's Report is an excellent journal with in-depth description and analyses of innovative economic development projects around the country. Recent articles of note include "Community Based Organizations as Long- Term Care Providers," and "Neighborhood Assistance Programs: A Link Between Business and Community." ORGANIZATIONS Community Partnerships Resource Center Division of Government Capacity Sharing U.S. Dept, of Housing and Urban Development 451 Seventh St., SW Washington, DC 20410 202/755-4370 The Center is a clearinghouse for information about new community partnerships. It seems to be the new administration's equivalent of the old Neighborhood Information Sharing Exchange (NISE). The Center is establishing a database on alternative community partnerships. Entries include information on government contracts in the private sector; sharing between government agencies; grants or vouchers as subsidies; franchises, voluntary organizations, donated labor (volunteers, loaned executives, self-help); and limitation of service demand through fees and user charges, promotion and regulation. An introductory package, the Alternative Services Kit, points the way through various community partnerships. The database is temporarily being put on the LOGIN — Local Government Information Network— which was developed by Control Data Corporation. Control Data itself has sought to develop services for government agencies, including this database management system. Information City Maruigement Association 1120 G St., NW Washington, DC 20005 The Association has prepared several useful publications, including Issues in Contracting for Public Services from the Private Sector ($8.00); and Contracting with the Private Sectorfor Municipal Services: A Dialogue Betiveen Practitioners ($8.00). They are presently preparing a catalog on alternatives to public delivery of services, to be finished in summer 1983. NatiotudAssociation ofNeighborhoods (NAN) 1651 Fuller St., NW Washington, DC 20009 2Qim2-776(, NAN has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide technical assistance to CDBG (Block Grants) entitlement communities for development of neighborhood based service delivery. Urban Institute 2100MSt.,NW Washington, DC 20037 The Urban Institute, with funding from HUD and the National Science Foundation, is identifying ways to evaluate alternatives to local government decision-making about maintenance, replacement, construction, and abandonment of streets, bridges, and sewer and water systems. NatiorudAssociation ofCounties 440 First St., NW Washington, DC 20001 The Association is compiling information about what is called "interlocal service delivery," or methods for different levels of government for sharing the burden of providing services with less tax revenues.
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