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University of Delaware Center for Community Research and Service, http://www.udel.edu/ccrs/ Description: The Center for Community Research and Service provides usable knowledge, education, training and services that enhance the ability of organizations and communities to promote social and economic justice. Topics: Housing, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware University of Delaware DataMIL, http://datamil.udel.edu/ Description: The Delaware Data Mapping and Integration Laboratory (DataMIL) is an interactive, on-line collaboratory to aid decision-makers at the federal, state, county, and local government levels. Delaware citizens can create maps and download GIs data of any location in Delaware as well as take part in maintenance of our state's geographic information. Topics: Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware University of Delaware Local Government, http://www.ipa.udel.edu/topics/local-govt.html Description: The Institute for Public Administration has a long tradition of over 25 years of working with Delaware's municipalities, county governments, local government associations as well as to other governmental agencies and civic organizations concerned with local government issues. The Institute provides policy and staffing assistance to the Delaware League of Local Governments (DLLG) and the Sussex County Association of Towns (SCAT). Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware University of Delaware Nonprofit Community Resource Center, http://www.udel.edu/ncrc/index.html Description: The NCRC provides information, training, and technical assistance to nonprofit and community-based organizations and to public agencies serving low- and moderate income families & communities. It houses a library of resources for community and economic development, nonprofit management, and affordable housing and coordinates several practitioner training workshops and courses. Topics: What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware Return to top of page OTHER DELAWARE LINKS Appalachian Mountain Club Appalachian Mountain Club, http://www.outdoors.org/ Description: The enhancement program reflects a growing recognition that transportation programs, while vital for national mobility and international competitiveness, must also be environmentally sound. The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) encourages local communities to be directly involved in enhancement projects. Enhancement activities are a means to more creatively and sensitively integrate transportation facilities into the surrounding communities. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont Clean Water Action Clean Water Action: Delaware, http://www.cleanwateraction.org/de/index.htm Description: Clean Water Action is a national citizens' organization working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware Delaware Association of Nonprofit Agencies Nonprofit Start-Up, http://www.delawarenonprofit.org/StartUp.htm Description: Information about starting a non-profit organization in the state of Delaware. Topics: What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware Delaware Center for the Inland Bays Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, http://www.inlandbays.org/ Description: The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays was established as a nonprofit organization in 1994 under the auspices of the Inland Bays Watershed Enhancement Act (Title 7, Chapter 76). The mission of the Center for the Inland Bays is to promote the wise use and enhancement of the Inland Bays and their watersheds. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware Delaware Nature Society Delaware Nature Society, http://www.delawarenaturesociety.org/ Description: The Delaware Nature Society is a private, nonprofit membership organization that fosters understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the natural world through education; preserves ecologically significant areas; and advocates stewardship and conservation of natural resources. Topics: Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware Return to top of page Delaware River Basin Commission i-Map Delaware River Basin, http://bassriver.state.nj.us/imap_delbasin/ Description: I-Map Delaware River Basin is DRBC's first interactive mapping application. This application has been designed to serve maps from DRBC and by remote map services over the Web using ESRI's ArcIMS (Internet Map Server) Internet mapping technology. The application provides a map view frame, a popup window for tabular information related to map features, a toolbar for basic GIS analysis, several predefined queries, and the capability to produce a basic map layout that can be sent to the user's printer. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Delaware Riverkeeper Network Delaware Riverkeeper Network, http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/ Description: The Delaware Riverkeeper is the voice of the Delaware River and its streams, championing their rights as living members of our community, and is leader for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. The Delaware Riverkeeper and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network stand as vigilant protectors and defenders of the River, its tributaries and its watershed committed to restoring the natural balance where it has been lost and ensuring its preservation where it still exists. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center, http://www.maelc.org/index.html Description: The Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center is a not-for-profit environmental law firm that provides legal services to public interest organizations in environmental matters. The Center counsels clients, educates the public, submits comments to agencies, and litigates cases when necessary. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Nanticoke Watershed Alliance Nanticoke Watershed Alliance, http://www.nanticokeriver.org/index.html Description: The mission of the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance is to conserve the natural, cultural, and recreational resources of the Nanticoke River watershed for the benefit of present and future generations. Topics: Healthy Communities, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland Return to top of page Natural Resource Conservation Service - USDA Delaware NRCS, http://www.de.nrcs.usda.gov/ Description: NRCS soil conservationists, soil scientists, agronomists, ecologists, engineers, planners, and other specialists promote land stewardship by providing technical assistance through teams to address surface and groundwater quality; wetlands, riparian areas, and biodiversity; aquatic and terrestrial habitat; and impacts of landuse changes. NRCS teams work on all of a state's landscapes: agricultural, wetlands and riparian areas, suburban, rural, urban centers, and forested. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination Coordinating Planning Efforts, http://www.state.de.us/planning/coord/coord.htm Description: The most effective planning takes place at the local level. Delaware relies on county and municipal governments as the first line of planning. The Office of State Planning Coordination works to make sure that planning efforts at all levels of government are coordinated and integrated with one another and to ensure that all have access to planning-related information. Topics: Intergovernmental Cooperation, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination Planning Data and Information, http://www.state.de.us/planning/info/info.htm Description: A goal of the Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination is to make information available to state, county and local planners that will help them make the best decisions possible for Delaware. Good information comes from good data. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware University of Maryland Mid-Atlantic RESAC, http://www.geog.umd.edu/resac/ Description: The Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science Applications Center (RESAC) is one of 7 regional centers funded by NASA's Earth Science Applications Program. The Mid-Atlantic RESAC leverages the UMD Geography Department's expertise in satellite remote sensing and the work of a diverse consortium of 36 partners in Government, Academia, Industry and NGOs to address applications of regional significance. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Return to top of page
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