Subscribers may be interested the Community Mapping Collaboratory (CMC), which continues to grow and build community mapping and engagement initiatives within and between the community and the University of Victoria campus in Canada.

The Center for Governmental Studies of Northern Illinois University (NIU) has welcomed its resident scholar in a fledgling program that promotes community engagement in sustainable regional development through a cohort of international researchers.  Hugo Gutierrez, serves as head of Social Programs in the Social Development and Citizenship Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico.  He is co-founder of Mexico Rural and Mexico Urbano community outreach programs.