Organizing Community Improvement Projects
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Resources for National Community Action Month 
Description: A "Hot Topics" compilation of resources for National Community Action month.
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Author: Hahn, Andrew
Description: A summary report of a study that examined the long-term outcomes and sustainability of community initiatives for children, youth and families. Describes what happens in the community after funding ends.
Skills Development through Community Computing: The Irondale Community Computer Lab
Author: Dunn, Elizabeth (3 more by this author); J. Gordon Arbuckle
Description: The purpose of this report is to present a study examines the impact of community computer labs on participants Â’ computer skills, even when no formal on-site training is provided.
Skills Development Through Community Computing: The Irondale Community Computer Lab (report summary)
Author: Dunn, Elizabeth (3 more by this author); J. Gordon Arbuckle
Description: A brief summary of a report that presents a study examines the impact of community computer labs on participants Â’ computer skills, even when no formal on-site training is provided
– General Information –
Author: Stevens, Debbie (1 more by this author)
Description: This guide for 4-H Clubs and members suggests ways youth can participate as an active
asset in their communities to promote emergency and disaster planning. It includes sample activities, links to resources, and action steps for serving as a catalyst in jump-starting preparedness planning in business, community and families. The guide can be used by traditional 4-H clubs, specialty clubs, school enrichment or 4-H Afterschool programs.
Author: Hahn, Andrew
Description: A summary report of a study that examined the long-term outcomes and sustainability of community initiatives for children, youth and families. Describes what happens in the community after funding ends.
Community Trees: Establishing a Community Tree Program
Author: Iles, Jeff
Description: A fact sheet that explains the benefits of community tree programs and how to start a community tree program
Description: Webpage for Hands On Network, which leads a national civic movement bringing people together to tackle tough community problems through service. This is a growing Network of local nonprofit organizations that act as civic action centers—helping people “be the change” in their communities through effective volunteer action. The Hands On approach inspires volunteers, creates leaders, and changes lives.
Description: From the National Gardening Association, this webpage provides links to curriculum and information to get children interested in gardening. Information about funding to promote children’s learning through gardening is included.
Description: This web-site is designed to inform and aid people in celebrating National Get Outdoors Day. Featuring, news, project ideas, contact information, this site is a great resource for After school educators.
OMK—A Gold Mine for Civic Engagement
Author: Cross, Charlotte (2 more by this author); KEn Grey
Description: Sharing NH Operation: Military Kids (OMK) successful strategies for implementing civic engagement activities related to military kids will be the workshop focus. Participants will explore engaging: youth organizations (4-H, scouts), university connections (ROTC, student volunteers), community partners (veterans, spiritual community, after school groups), and public and private schools. In addition, participants will generate civic engagement plans for use back home.
Organizing Your Community Garden
Author: Hundhammer, Marjorie (1 more by this author); Kleffner, Joyce
Description: Brief description of social and horticultural factors related to establishment of community gardens
Steps to Organizing Your Community Garden
PRAGmatics: The Journal of Community-Based Research: Exploring Access for Communities
Description: This newsletter, which highlights university community partnerships, highlights action research projects. This newsletter includes articles on improving voter turnout, involving low-income communities in the government budget process, and addressing the digital divide.
Sowing the Seeds of Success: All the Tools You Need to Cultivate Community with Gardening
Author: Bushway, Lori ; Marcia Eames-Sheavly
Description: Participants will leave this workshop with all the tools needed to launch any type of gardening program in any community setting. Gardening is one of the most notable positive trends in the nation today. Enthusiasts state that this creative, inter-generational environment has many opportunities. This workshop includes: introduction to garden benefits, program planning and evaluation, gardening 101, and fundraising.
Description: This web site is designed to provide information and ideas for celebrating Space Day.
Description: Here is a fact sheet is designed to give many different groups the basic information they need to get their gardening project started. There are links to additional sources that provide helpful hints for starting a community garden project.
Starting from Seed: The Fort Riley Community Victory Garden—From the Ground Up!
Author: Schoneweis, Susan
Description: This workshop will cover how to initiate and develop a community garden. The Fort Riley Community Victory Garden was built in 2010 to promote community, resiliency, and sustainability. The gardens provide Soldiers & Families space to grow food to improve their nutrition & finances. In 2011, it will produce fresh vegetables for an on-post food bank, and nutrition and cooking classes.
The American Community Gardening Association
Description: The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) is a bi-national nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities. The Association recognizes that community gardening improves the quality of life for people by providing a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, stimulating social interaction, encouraging self-reliance, beautifying neighborhoods, producing nutritious food, reducing family food budgets, conserving resources and creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy and education.
The National Gardening Association
Description: The National Gardening Association
has been working to renew and sustain the essential connection between people, plants, and the environment through gardening for more than 30 years. This website provides links to programs and initiatives and highlights the opportunities for plant-based education in schools, communities, and backyards across the country. The National Gardening Association serves as a bridge to connect people to gardening in five core fields: plant-based education, health and wellness, environmental stewardship, community development, and responsible home gardening.
– Programming Resource –
Description: The feature article in this publication from the American Community Gardening Association describes community garden's applications as an academic tool for teaching a
variety of subjects. The feature article also presents case studies of successful gardens and data on academic achievement gains by students who participate in school gardens.
Community Trees: Establishing a Community Tree Program
Author: Iles, Jeff
Description: A fact sheet that explains the benefits of community tree programs and how to start a community tree program
Cross-Cutting Tool Stakeholder Analysis
Description: From the World Wildlife Federation, this 8-page document defines stakeholder analysis and provides guidance on stakeholder identification.
CYFERnetSEARCH's Online Logic Model Builder
Description: CYFERnetSEARCH offers an online logic model builder that allows the user to type in responses to five elements (identified needs and assets, desired results, indicators, activities, and resources) and generates a printable document at the end.
Food for your Community: Gleaning and Sharing
Author: Hundhammer, Marjorie (1 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet describing steps in setting up a crop gleaning hunger relief project.
Futures Festival: An Intergenerational Perspective to Community Development
Description: An instructional guidebook outlining how to implement “Futures Festival†special events as a strategy for engaging people of all ages in constructive dialogue about community development issues. Community residents of all ages and public officials come together at a community event to share their ideas about community development.
Getting the Lay of the Land on Health: A Guide for Using Interviews to Gather Information
Description: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Access Project produced this guide for conducting key informant interviews. The guide includes information about purposes of key informant interviews, who and how many people to interview, factors to consider when deciding who should conduct the interviews, and how to record, analyze, and report the results. Sample interview protocols are included.
Grow Your Impact with Community Gardens
Author: Jakes, Susan (22 more by this author); Keith Baldwin, Lucy Bradley
Description: Using Extension's wide content expertise, community gardens create ideal educational opportunities for practically all of the content areas of Extension: Nutrition, physical activity, youth development, entrepreneurism, horticulture, family resource management, community development, agriculture education, senior friendly communities, etc. A garden can be a powerful community hub for Extension education activities. Since community garden's will be at various stages of development, presentation and materials will be applicable for many stages, from planning, to partnership formation, to land and funding acquisition, to full fledge gardens, to redevelopment after land or leadership loss. Participants will increase their knowledge of gardening's benefit to children, youth, families and communities; increase their knowledge of a community garden's ability to integrate expertise of Extension; and gain access to online community gardening technical assistance materials
Author: Abi-Nader, Janette; Kristen Markley; Kendall Dunnigan
Description: This curriculum, framed around the topic of community gardens, presents basic community development how-to information such as community organizing, asset assessment, building partnerships, and facilitating meetings.
Logic Models from the Center for Civic Partnerships
Description: The Center for Civic Partnerships explains “Logic Models” and links to additional online tools, how-to guides, and practical resources about logic models.
Organizing Your Community Garden
Author: Hundhammer, Marjorie (1 more by this author); Kleffner, Joyce
Description: Brief description of social and horticultural factors related to establishment of community gardens
Steps to Organizing Your Community Garden
Skills Development through Community Computing: The Irondale Community Computer Lab
Author: Dunn, Elizabeth (3 more by this author); J. Gordon Arbuckle
Description: The purpose of this report is to present a study examines the impact of community computer labs on participants Â’ computer skills, even when no formal on-site training is provided.
Skills Development Through Community Computing: The Irondale Community Computer Lab (report summary)
Author: Dunn, Elizabeth (3 more by this author); J. Gordon Arbuckle
Description: A brief summary of a report that presents a study examines the impact of community computer labs on participants Â’ computer skills, even when no formal on-site training is provided
Description: Here is a fact sheet is designed to give many different groups the basic information they need to get their gardening project started. There are links to additional sources that provide helpful hints for starting a community garden project.
The National Gardening Association
Description: The National Gardening Association
has been working to renew and sustain the essential connection between people, plants, and the environment through gardening for more than 30 years. This website provides links to programs and initiatives and highlights the opportunities for plant-based education in schools, communities, and backyards across the country. The National Gardening Association serves as a bridge to connect people to gardening in five core fields: plant-based education, health and wellness, environmental stewardship, community development, and responsible home gardening.
The Roadmap to a Community-Build Playspace
Author: Le, Hahn; Stephanie Nelson
Description: This presentation from CYFAR 2006 describes the process of creating a community playground. From start to finish, a description of a KaBoom! playground build is given.
What Works Wisconsin: Program Fidelity and Adaptation
Author: O'Connor, Cailin (1 more by this author); Stephen Small; Siobhan Cooney
Description: Program fidelity and adaptation: Meeting local needs without compromising program effectiveness. What Works, Wisconsin – Research to Practice Series. This is a 6-page “research to practice brief” that explores the types of modifications that are sometimes made to evidence-based programs and the effects of such adaptations. Also explored are strategies for maintaining program effectiveness in regards to program fidelity, implementation, and adaptation.
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PRAGmatics: The Journal of Community-Based Research: Exploring Access for Communities
Description: This newsletter, which highlights university community partnerships, highlights action research projects. This newsletter includes articles on improving voter turnout, involving low-income communities in the government budget process, and addressing the digital divide.