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21st Century Community Learning Centers
Description: This Web site outlines programs supported by the Presidental Administration to keep children safe, provide academic enrichment, and other recreational and enrichment opportunities, such as band, drama, art, and other cultural events for children; and to provide life-long learning opportunities for community members.
Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Parnterships
Description: This website introduces Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. This initiative was created to strengthen and expand the role of FBCOs in providing social services by allowing FBCO's the ability to be seen as equal to other non-profit organizations when applying for grants.
Comprehensive Planning and Citizen Participation 
Description: This publication is designed to provide an understanding
of the comprehensive planning process
and the complementary role that citizen participation
plays throughout the entire effort.You will be
presented with content-based information related
to comprehensive planning and citizen participation,
examples of its application in real communities
across the state, and resources that will help
you work your way through the development of a
citizen participation plan for your community—a
plan that walks in lock-step with your comprehensive
planning approach.
Description: The Connecticut Assets Network (CAN) is a grassroots nonprofit network of citizens and organizations that promote the integration and successful use of asset-based strategies for community development.
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Applying CYFERnet Resources to Evaluate Community Outcomes: Evaluation Amidst Diversity
Author: Iyechad, Lilli (1 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta; Tepper, Karen Hoffman; Jakes, Susan S.
Description: A bulletin that discusses applying CYFERnet resources to evaluate community outcomes. It includes discussions of promoting regional collaboration, programmatic cohesion, and cross-cultural awareness and preservation. It also introduces an evaluation and education tool called "A Storyboard of Mirconesian Peoples: A Navigation Chart to Better Understanding."
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Building Communities of Conscience and Conviction, Lessons From Recent Experience
Author: Dodson, David; Julie K. Thomasson
Description: This is a report on how MDC has been successful in getting individuals involved in local issues. It speaks of the principles of excellence, equity, and inclusion.
Collaboration Framework: Addressing Community Capacity
Author: Hogue, Teresa (1 more by this author); Ted Iyechad; Arno Bergstrom; Richard Clark
Description: Understanding the complexities of collaboration and applying the key elements involved in collaboration increase the likelihood of achieving shared goals and outcomes. The Collaboration Framework is designed to help individuals and practitioners who are either starting collaborations, or need help in strengthening an existing collaboration. Specifically, the Framework assists people, groups and organizations to achieve clearly defined outcomes. Drawing from a diversity of people and opinions, the Framework is based on a Core Foundation of shared vision, mission, principles and values. It clarifies the Factors, both Process and Contextual, which can either promote or inhibit the effectiveness of a collaboration which, in turn, affects its desired Outcomes. The Framework can be used as a tool while developing and sustaining collaborations.
Community Science Education and Leadership (SEAL) Project
Author: Dasher, Steven
Description: This Power Point presentation from CYFAR 2003 draws from the presenters' experiences with the Animal Ambassadors Community Science Education and Leadership (SEAL) Project. Community SEAL is a research project that focuses on community collaborations, cross-age mentoring, and science education outreach in an at-risk community.
Description: This website offers a host of tools for community building, covering over 200 topics including group management, leadership development, collaboration, the arts, and advocacy. Also included are links to other community resources and information on program evaluation.
Evaluating Collaboratives: Reaching the Potential
Author: Taylor-Powell, Ellen (6 more by this author); Geran, Jean; Rossing, Boyd
Description: An evaluation tool that discusses how to evaluate collaboratives.
Evaluating the Collaboration Process, CDFS-7
Author: Clark, Richard
Description: A factsheet that discusses how to evaluate collaborative processes.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Process Development Introduction
Description: An introduction to process development, which is change either to the process of creating community groups or to the functioning of existing groups that results in improvement in the group's efficiency and effectiveness. It includes links to indicators and measures, overall process development tools, and sources and annotations.
Description: A list and explanations of indicators, measures, and tools that can be used to measure process development efforts to improve the creation of new linkages. This is one of the Evaluating the National Outcomes resources for community.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resources that lists and describes indicators, measures, and tools for strengthening existing linkages, which is one component of process development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Process Development: Overall Process Development Tools
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about overall process development tools that can be used for evaluation purposes.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Process Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides sources and annotations for process development, which is one component of community change.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Program Outcomes for Communities: Sources and Annotations
Description: A list of sources and annotations for community national outcome resources.
Extension Role In Community Groups: Evaluation Report
Author: Taylor-Powell, Ellen (6 more by this author); Ann McLean; Carol Herman
Description: This evaluation report describes the methodology and findings of a study to identify the role and contribution of Extension staff to community collaborations across the state of Wisconsin.
Lessons from the Field: Community Anti-drug Coalitions as Catalysts for Change
Description: This report provides analytic insights into the organization, operation, sustainability, and impact of community anti-drug coalitions across America. The study involved in-depth case studies of eight highly-effective community coalitions and a cross-site analysis that examines characteristics shared among them, such as leadership, outcomes, planning, institutionalization, and diversification of funding sources.
National Network for Collaboration Training Manual
Author: Borden, Lynne (4 more by this author); Dan Perkins
Description: The goal of community collaboration is to bring individuals and members of communities, agencies and organizations together in an atmosphere of support to systematically solve existing and emerging problems that could not be solved by one group alone. Understanding the complexities of collaboration and applying the key elements involved in collaboration increases the likelihood of achieving shared goals and outcomes. To assist citizens and practitioners in their collaborative efforts, the National Network for Collaboration created a Collaboration Framework. A training manual that discusses collaboration and standards of practice. The manual includes a section with evaluation tools.
Program Development and Evaluation Homepage
Author: Taylor-Powell, Ellen (6 more by this author)
Description: The Program Development and Evaluation Website from University of Wisconsin Extension offers links to information, training and technical assistance to assist in planning, implementation and evaluation of high quality educational programs.
Purposeful Partnerships in the Community Interest
Author: Morton, Lois
Description: A fact sheet that discusses issues related to partnerships and collaboratives in communities. It includes a diagnostic tool to evaluate group functioning and to provide a better understanding of a group's strengths and weaknesses.
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Description: The “AI Commons” is a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change.
Building Communities of Conscience and Conviction, Lessons From Recent Experience
Author: Dodson, David; Julie K. Thomasson
Description: This is a report on how MDC has been successful in getting individuals involved in local issues. It speaks of the principles of excellence, equity, and inclusion.
Building Community Collaboration and Consensus
Author: Petersen, C. R.
Description: The purpose of this site is to provide practical information for buiding collaboration and partnerships. It is designed to help community members locate the assets and resources that already exist in their communities and then develop and complete their goals and objectives. Included are guidelines for building a collaboration, an example of a community collaboration in Madison county, and a power point presentation about collaboration.
Author: Stehulak, Nancy; Beth Flynn; Barb Brahm
Description: Building Dynamic Groups is a web based compilation of activities to build relationships, become dynamic and help them function at their best. It addresses the areas of communication, facilitation, team building, collaboration, and visioning. There are also sections on assessments and ice breakers to use in group development. This curriculum includes procedures and guidelines, along with occasional variations for each activity. Activities can be used individually or several can be used as a series.
Building Strong Communities through School-Extension Partnerships
Author: Rasmussen, Marilyn; Jessica Kirkham; Sonia Mack; Tracey Lehrke; Carrie Johnson; Tina Dangel
Description: In recent years, schools have been expected to address both academic and non-academic needs of children. Extension is well-positioned to partner with schools in meeting numerous social, emotional and physical needs of youth and families. Partnerships or community coalitions can be developed between schools and Extension to meet these critical needs. Examples of current partnerships will be shared.
Catalytic Community Development
Description: This issue brief from the Rural Sociological Society presents a community development model referred to as "catalytic community development." As described by Kenneth Pigg and Ted Bradshaw (2003) emphasis in catalytic community development is on bringing together and mobilizing local people and resources to create change in and of communities.
Author: Sharpe, Dave (1 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes three different types of leadership -- autocratic vs. democratic, task vs. maintenance, and leadership roles -- and identifies situations where each type might be most effective.
Community at Work: Resource list for Practitioners
Description: A list of resources from Community at Work which includes links to sites which promote inclusive practice, community participation, and capacity building in the area of citizen participation.
Description: The Community Development Society furthers community work through teaching, practice, and research.
Competition, Cooperation, and Local Government
Description: Issue brief describes the impact that competition, privatization, and decentralization of public services may have on rural communities. Suggestions for leveraging resources and making rural communities better able to compete for services are offered.
Developing a Community Pipeline to Strengthen Education
Author: Laumatia, Laura; LoVina Louie; Chris Meyer; Cheryl Weixel
Description: This workshop will explain how community partners representing Extension, Tribal and Community Health and Wellness programs have collaborated to develop a formal community-based educational pipeline to support student success in a predominantly Native American community. Presenters will share strategies for actively engaging youth, families and educators in articulating a community vision for education.
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author); Katey Walker
Description: A fact sheet that discusses ethical issues that often arise when building and maintaining coalitions. It includes directions for an exercise to help groups think about their values when making decisions regarding ethical issues.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Program Outcomes for Communities: Sources and Annotations
Description: A list of sources and annotations for community national outcome resources.
Extension Role In Community Groups: Evaluation Report
Author: Taylor-Powell, Ellen (6 more by this author); Ann McLean; Carol Herman
Description: This evaluation report describes the methodology and findings of a study to identify the role and contribution of Extension staff to community collaborations across the state of Wisconsin.
Facilitating Strategic Planning
Author: Sharpe, Dave (1 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet providing background and guidance for conducting organizational strategic planning.
Finding Common Agendas: How Young People are Being Engaged in Community Change Efforts
Author: Butler, Benjamin; Thaddeus Ferber; Donna Wharton-Fields; Karen Pittman
Description: This report presents an analytical framework for understanding how and why young people are connected to community youth development organizations and further examines reports on 100 such organizations across the country to explore the role that community organizations are playing in youth development.
Author: Nakazawa, Anthony ; Arlot "Bill" Hall; Anthony Garcia; Edgar Boone; Edgar Blatchford
Description: This is an excellent "how to" guide for community members who wish to effect change within their community. It provides a step-by-step approach to solving a problem, with chapters on Identifying the Issues, Building a Coalition, Making Personal Contacts, Utilizing the Media, Writing Letters, Giving Public Testimony, Understanding the Referendum/Initiative Process and Evaluating Your Progress. At the end of each chapter is an "action checklist" that outlines the steps you need to follow to most effectively solve your problem or resolve your issue.
Healthy Communities Tools and Resources
Author: Wolff, Tom (1 more by this author)
Description: This site includes several free tip sheets on seeking collaborative solutions.
Improving Community-Based Efforts in Diverse Communities Through the Cultural Guide Model
Author: Olson, Kathleen (7 more by this author); Mary Marczak, Cathy Jordan, Arthur Brown
Description: The Partnering for School Success project has worked collaboratively to improve parent-school partnerships and provide parent resources for supporting children in school. The workshop explores the cultural guide model, shares key resources, lessons learned, offers practical tools and guidelines to better meet the needs of parents in diverse communities of Hmong, Somali, American Indian, African American and Latino families.
Independent Sector: Working Better Together
Description: Published by the Three Sector Initiative, seven leading organizations representing business, government and nonprofits, the report details the ways the sectors have used collaboration to form partnerships with each other to address complex problems that no one sector can handle on its own.
Leadership for Healthy Communities
Author: Erickson, Donald
Description: A fact sheet describing the terminology and issues regarding power constituents and decision makers in a community.
Description: A list of resources on faith-based service-learning and collaboration. Faith-based service-learning involves community religiously-based organizations as partners.
Making Collaborations Work in Dire Economic Times
Author: Dotterweich, Jutta (7 more by this author)
Description: Making collaborations effective is hard work, but it is critical in times of diminishing resources. The asset-based community development framework offers a new, empowering perspective on community coalition work. Hear strategies and tools to re-engage community partners and activate untapped resources in individuals, community groups and organizations.
National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals
Description: NACDEP is an organization dedicated to improving the visibility, coordination, professional status and resource base of community and economic development Extension programs and professionals.
National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals
Description: NACDEP is an organization dedicated to improving the visibility, coordination, professional status and resource base of community and economic development Extension programs and professionals.
Author: Braddy, Vicki
Description: A fact sheet that discusses networking.
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.
Pew Forum Resources on Religion & Social Welfare
Description: The Pew Forum offers a variety of resources that examine the relationship between religious organizations, social service providers and government, including reports, polling data, event transcripts and the latest news.
Purposeful Partnerships in the Community Interest
Author: Morton, Lois
Description: A fact sheet that discusses issues related to partnerships and collaboratives in communities. It includes a diagnostic tool to evaluate group functioning and to provide a better understanding of a group's strengths and weaknesses.
Author: The Forum for Youth Inves, (2 more by this author)
Description: A review of information about factors that contributes to and create barriers to college success. Explanation of the skills that contribute to college success are the same ones needed for workplace success.
Author: The Forum for Youth Inves, (2 more by this author)
Description: A review of information about factors that contributes to and create barriers to college success. Explanation of the skills that contribute to college success are the same ones needed for workplace success.
Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work
Author: Boyte, Harry; Nan Skelton
Description: This publication addresses our declining and fragmented public life that result in ineffective and trivialized public work. It describes a process and ways to use public work in order to reinvent citizenship to renew public life. It can be used with educators or community groups on the nature of public involvement.
Schools can be a powerful partner in community development
Author: Besser, Terry
Description: A news release that addresses the importance of community-school linkages. It includes a discussion about how young people can improve their communities while they also gain personal benefits from being involved.
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.
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.
Supporting Military Families Through Community Partnerships
Author: Baker, Diane (1 more by this author)
Description: Discover how one bi-state community has collaborated to support military families in their area. 4-H, YMCA, Red Cross, U.S. Army and National Guard, and local schools have worked together to plan special events, monthly youth programs, and residential camps all targeted to military kids. Programs are all free to families with support from donors and grants.
Teachable Moments: Rebuilding from the Hurricanes and Preparing for the Future
Description: Extension employees with firsthand experience in responding to the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes will examine important issues about Extension's role in helping devastated communities rebuild. CYFAR representatives will describe how they are helping families cope with the hurricane's aftermath. CYFERnet and EDEN members will discuss ways to use technology during crises and facilitate a dialogue about ways to enhance Extension's responsiveness.
The Community and School as an Economic Development Team
Author: Hinz, Lisa (2 more by this author)
Description: This publication outlines the major aspects of school/community economic development. It includes examples of schools and communities that are working together for economic development.
The Forum for Youth Investment
Description: This web site is the home site for The Forum for Youth Investment, an organization committed to bringing all youth serving organizations to the table to help better serve the needs of youth. The site provides information about the organizational approach of the Forum as well as a listing of partners and supporters, links to research and policy agendas.
The Power of Collaborative Solutions
Author: Wolff, Tom (1 more by this author)
Description: This book interweaves stories with solutions to strengthen coalitions and collaborations.
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Bridging the Divide: Using Relationship Building Strategies with Underrepresented Audiences
Author: Ouelette, Kristy; Mitch Mason
Description: Building credibility and trust in vulnerable, underrepresented communities is a tough job, especially when a community has limited exposure to 4-H or Extension. This workshop will highlight the best practices in creating positive relationships between at-risk communities and Extension. Programs that have been successful at creating sustainable programs for new audiences, especially communities of new Americans, will be presented.
Bringing Everyone to the Table: Meetings with Purpose and Patience
Author: Forstadt, Leslie
Description: Think of a meeting you attended, or one you will be hosting. Who was there? Who was missing? This fun, interactive workshop focuses on effective collaborations so that in working with military or vulnerable families, professionals consider the benefits of bringing multiple voices to the table. You will have opportunities to brainstorm, and leave with tools to use.
Author: Stehulak, Nancy; Beth Flynn; Barb Brahm
Description: Building Dynamic Groups is a web based compilation of activities to build relationships, become dynamic and help them function at their best. It addresses the areas of communication, facilitation, team building, collaboration, and visioning. There are also sections on assessments and ice breakers to use in group development. This curriculum includes procedures and guidelines, along with occasional variations for each activity. Activities can be used individually or several can be used as a series.
Building Effective Community Support Networks
Author: Allen, Darrin ; Eddy Mentzner; Jim Deidrick
Description: Do you build support networks among community agencies? Do they reach potential in accomplishing their mission? Operation: Military Kids (OMK) has developed tools to aide community leaders in developing high functioning Support Networks from diverse groups of individuals and organizations. The tools and strategies used nationally with OMK are directly applicable for developing highly productive teams in any context.
Building Family, School and Community Connections for Greater Program Intensity
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Madelyn Ridgeway, Iowa State University; Susan Jakes, North Carolina State University; Barbara Woods, Iowa State University
Description: This is the archived recording of the Building Family, School and Community Connections for Greater Program Intensity webinar conducted by the CYFERnet Parent/Family and CYFERnet Community Editorial Boards, November 16, 2010. The webinar focuses on using an ecological model to strengthen the interface between families, schools and communities and thus maximize program outcomes.
Coalition Facilitator Guide CFFS-2
Author: Bell, Charles (2 more by this author); Penne Smith
Description: A fact sheet that serves as a guide for coalition facilitators. It discusses roles, qualities, and inhibiting factors, and it gives tips for facilitators.
Community Engagement: Not Taking the Easy Path
Author: Jakes, Susan (21 more by this author); Autumn Guin
Description: Communities are transformed when the whole community comes together to create something new. This grassroots effort grows from people recognizing their own collective capacity and aligning their vision for what their community can be. Extension, while often a catalyst of this coming together, can play a key role in helping the "usual suspects" reach deeper into the community and invite others to join. We believe that this work begins with bringing together stakeholders around issues of possibility, commitment, and accountability. But how do we find those stakeholders and create space for real engagement? Engagement that might include dissent... We have ideas and would love to hear your ideas as well. We invite you to join us as we learn together about how and who to bring to the stakeholder table to begin the work of community transformation.
Competition, Cooperation, and Local Government
Description: Issue brief describes the impact that competition, privatization, and decentralization of public services may have on rural communities. Suggestions for leveraging resources and making rural communities better able to compete for services are offered.
Convergence Partnership Webinars
Description: The Healthy People Healthy Places Webinar Series, which offers examples, information, tools, and connections for those creating healthy places through multi-field, equity focused environmental policy change.
Engaging, Mobilizing, and Impacting Faith-based Communities
Author: Jakes, Susan (21 more by this author)
Description: Online training to learn the challenges and rewards of working with faith-based audiences and organizations and assist Extension professionals partner with the faith-based community in implementing educational programs. Your opportunity to: Increase knowledge of the importance of uniting faith-based audiences/organizations; learn strategies for approaching potential faith-based community partners; increase knowledge of effective practices for working with faith-based audiences/organizations; and hear lessons learned, challenges faced, and exciting results from working with faith-based audiences/organizations.
Author: Braddy, Vicki
Description: A fact sheet that discusses networking.
Sustainable Collaboration in Support of Military Families: A Public/Private Partnership Model
Author: Winkel, Nicola ; Chris Melvin
Description: Strong and functional cross-sector collaboration between the military, government and community is essential for meeting the needs of service members, veterans and their families. The Arizona Coalition for Military Families is a public/private partnership focused on sustainable collaboration. This workshop will discuss the development of the Coalition with a focus on specific approaches that can be replicated in other communities.
The Forum for Youth Investment
Description: This web site is the home site for The Forum for Youth Investment, an organization committed to bringing all youth serving organizations to the table to help better serve the needs of youth. The site provides information about the organizational approach of the Forum as well as a listing of partners and supporters, links to research and policy agendas.
Winning, Not Whining: Effective Teamwork Strategies for Any Organization
Description: This CYFAR 2009 workshop presents information on the qualities of good team members, creating strong teams, and analyzing team characteristics for improving teamwork.
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About IFAS Leadership Development: Have a Good Group
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: Part 3 of the IFAS Leadership curriculum. Discusses the stages of group process and gives suggestions for making groups more productive and effective.
Applying CYFERnet Resources to Evaluate Community Outcomes: Evaluation Amidst Diversity
Author: Iyechad, Lilli (1 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta; Tepper, Karen Hoffman; Jakes, Susan S.
Description: A bulletin that discusses applying CYFERnet resources to evaluate community outcomes. It includes discussions of promoting regional collaboration, programmatic cohesion, and cross-cultural awareness and preservation. It also introduces an evaluation and education tool called "A Storyboard of Mirconesian Peoples: A Navigation Chart to Better Understanding."
- More about "Applying CYFERnet Resources to Evaluate Community Outcomes: Evaluation Amidst Diversity"
Description: Extract and Summary of a comprehensive guidebook to a set curriculum addressing purposive community change.
Author: Stehulak, Nancy; Beth Flynn; Barb Brahm
Description: Building Dynamic Groups is a web based compilation of activities to build relationships, become dynamic and help them function at their best. It addresses the areas of communication, facilitation, team building, collaboration, and visioning. There are also sections on assessments and ice breakers to use in group development. This curriculum includes procedures and guidelines, along with occasional variations for each activity. Activities can be used individually or several can be used as a series.
Coalition Facilitator Guide CFFS-2
Author: Bell, Charles (2 more by this author); Penne Smith
Description: A fact sheet that serves as a guide for coalition facilitators. It discusses roles, qualities, and inhibiting factors, and it gives tips for facilitators.
Author: Bell, Charles (2 more by this author); Penne Smith
Description: A fact sheet that discusses the elements of successful coalition functioning.
Author: Bell, Charles (2 more by this author); Jeffery King; William Smith
Description: A fact sheet that discusses goal setting for coalitions.
Collaboration Framework: Addressing Community Capacity
Author: Hogue, Teresa (1 more by this author); Ted Iyechad; Arno Bergstrom; Richard Clark
Description: Understanding the complexities of collaboration and applying the key elements involved in collaboration increase the likelihood of achieving shared goals and outcomes. The Collaboration Framework is designed to help individuals and practitioners who are either starting collaborations, or need help in strengthening an existing collaboration. Specifically, the Framework assists people, groups and organizations to achieve clearly defined outcomes. Drawing from a diversity of people and opinions, the Framework is based on a Core Foundation of shared vision, mission, principles and values. It clarifies the Factors, both Process and Contextual, which can either promote or inhibit the effectiveness of a collaboration which, in turn, affects its desired Outcomes. The Framework can be used as a tool while developing and sustaining collaborations.
Communication in Coalitions: CDFS-5
Author: King, Jeffrey; Kathryn Beckham
Description: A factsheet that discusses communication in coalitions. Specifically, it discusses developing members, group facilitation skills, group cohesion, decision-making, and critical thinking.
Communication in Coalitions: What Is It? How do we do it? CDFS-6
Author: Beckham, Kathryn; Jeffrey King
Description: A fact sheet that discusses communication, including how it is done, effective communication, and miscommunication.
Community Science Education and Leadership (SEAL) Project
Author: Dasher, Steven
Description: This Power Point presentation from CYFAR 2003 draws from the presenters' experiences with the Animal Ambassadors Community Science Education and Leadership (SEAL) Project. Community SEAL is a research project that focuses on community collaborations, cross-age mentoring, and science education outreach in an at-risk community.
Description: This website offers a host of tools for community building, covering over 200 topics including group management, leadership development, collaboration, the arts, and advocacy. Also included are links to other community resources and information on program evaluation.
Community-Based Collaboration: Community Wellness Multiplied
Author: Hogue, Teresa (1 more by this author)
Description: A programming resource designed to help communities effectively plan, develop and
implement community based collaboration.
Competition, Cooperation, and Local Government
Description: Issue brief describes the impact that competition, privatization, and decentralization of public services may have on rural communities. Suggestions for leveraging resources and making rural communities better able to compete for services are offered.
Cross-Cutting Tool Stakeholder Analysis
Description: From the World Wildlife Federation, this 8-page document defines stakeholder analysis and provides guidance on stakeholder identification.
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author); Katey Walker
Description: A fact sheet that discusses ethical issues that often arise when building and maintaining coalitions. It includes directions for an exercise to help groups think about their values when making decisions regarding ethical issues.
Evaluating Collaboratives: Reaching the Potential
Author: Taylor-Powell, Ellen (6 more by this author); Geran, Jean; Rossing, Boyd
Description: An evaluation tool that discusses how to evaluate collaboratives.
Evaluating the Collaboration Process, CDFS-7
Author: Clark, Richard
Description: A factsheet that discusses how to evaluate collaborative processes.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Process Development Introduction
Description: An introduction to process development, which is change either to the process of creating community groups or to the functioning of existing groups that results in improvement in the group's efficiency and effectiveness. It includes links to indicators and measures, overall process development tools, and sources and annotations.
Description: A list and explanations of indicators, measures, and tools that can be used to measure process development efforts to improve the creation of new linkages. This is one of the Evaluating the National Outcomes resources for community.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resources that lists and describes indicators, measures, and tools for strengthening existing linkages, which is one component of process development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Process Development: Overall Process Development Tools
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about overall process development tools that can be used for evaluation purposes.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Process Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides sources and annotations for process development, which is one component of community change.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Program Outcomes for Communities: Sources and Annotations
Description: A list of sources and annotations for community national outcome resources.
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.
Guidelines for program priority setting 2000-2004.
Description: From the University of Wisconsin Extension, “Guidelines for program priority setting 2000-2004” outlines an approach to statewide and county program planning which includes situational analysis, priority setting, action planning, and implementation, and evaluation. The first section focusing on situational analysis elaborates upon identification of community needs and assets, and the process of building community involvement and ownership in asset-based programming.
Author: Nakazawa, Anthony ; Arlot "Bill" Hall; Anthony Garcia; Edgar Boone; Edgar Blatchford
Description: This is an excellent "how to" guide for community members who wish to effect change within their community. It provides a step-by-step approach to solving a problem, with chapters on Identifying the Issues, Building a Coalition, Making Personal Contacts, Utilizing the Media, Writing Letters, Giving Public Testimony, Understanding the Referendum/Initiative Process and Evaluating Your Progress. At the end of each chapter is an "action checklist" that outlines the steps you need to follow to most effectively solve your problem or resolve your issue.
Author: Jackson, Daney; William Maddey
Description: A fact sheet that provides an introduction to future fact sheets concerning the Ohio Center for Action on Coalitions.
Lessons from the Field: Community Anti-drug Coalitions as Catalysts for Change
Description: This report provides analytic insights into the organization, operation, sustainability, and impact of community anti-drug coalitions across America. The study involved in-depth case studies of eight highly-effective community coalitions and a cross-site analysis that examines characteristics shared among them, such as leadership, outcomes, planning, institutionalization, and diversification of funding sources.
National Network for Collaboration Training Manual
Author: Borden, Lynne (4 more by this author); Dan Perkins
Description: The goal of community collaboration is to bring individuals and members of communities, agencies and organizations together in an atmosphere of support to systematically solve existing and emerging problems that could not be solved by one group alone. Understanding the complexities of collaboration and applying the key elements involved in collaboration increases the likelihood of achieving shared goals and outcomes. To assist citizens and practitioners in their collaborative efforts, the National Network for Collaboration created a Collaboration Framework. A training manual that discusses collaboration and standards of practice. The manual includes a section with evaluation tools.
Author: Braddy, Vicki
Description: A fact sheet that discusses networking.
Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work
Author: Boyte, Harry; Nan Skelton
Description: This publication addresses our declining and fragmented public life that result in ineffective and trivialized public work. It describes a process and ways to use public work in order to reinvent citizenship to renew public life. It can be used with educators or community groups on the nature of public involvement.
Southern Rural Development Center
Description: The Southern Rural Development Center brings together the region's 29 land-grant institutions to address critical contemporary rural development issues impacting the well-being of people and communities in the rural South.
Structure- Construction of a Coalition CFFS-11
Author: Smith, Penne (1 more by this author); Charles H. Bell
Description: A fact sheet that discusses who should initiate a coalition, support the coalition, belong in the coalition, and how to recruit members and maintain the coalition.
Author: Wasteney, Sharon; Suzanne Johnston
Description: This presentation provides an overview of a CYFAR workshop in which presenters shared some concrete tools, principles and guidelines that can be the catalyst for sustainability of funding and programming.
Sustaining Effective Youth Programs by Building Organizational Capacity
Author: Dotterweich, Jutta (7 more by this author)
Description: CYFAR 2009 workshop on sustaining effective youth programs. Relies on the principles of positive youth development and strategies to involve youth in key roles in the community. This presentation illustrates the steps to building organizational capacity needed to help sustain youth programs.
Working with Diverse Cultures, CDFS-14
Author: Smith, Bill; Carla Hague; Thomas Archer; Ann W. Miller
Description: A fact sheet that discusses diverisity in coalitions, including how to manage and value diversity.
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Building Communities of Conscience and Conviction, Lessons From Recent Experience
Author: Dodson, David; Julie K. Thomasson
Description: This is a report on how MDC has been successful in getting individuals involved in local issues. It speaks of the principles of excellence, equity, and inclusion.
Finding Common Agendas: How Young People are Being Engaged in Community Change Efforts
Author: Butler, Benjamin; Thaddeus Ferber; Donna Wharton-Fields; Karen Pittman
Description: This report presents an analytical framework for understanding how and why young people are connected to community youth development organizations and further examines reports on 100 such organizations across the country to explore the role that community organizations are playing in youth development.
Independent Sector: Working Better Together
Description: Published by the Three Sector Initiative, seven leading organizations representing business, government and nonprofits, the report details the ways the sectors have used collaboration to form partnerships with each other to address complex problems that no one sector can handle on its own.
Lessons from the Field: Community Anti-drug Coalitions as Catalysts for Change
Description: This report provides analytic insights into the organization, operation, sustainability, and impact of community anti-drug coalitions across America. The study involved in-depth case studies of eight highly-effective community coalitions and a cross-site analysis that examines characteristics shared among them, such as leadership, outcomes, planning, institutionalization, and diversification of funding sources.
Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work
Author: Boyte, Harry; Nan Skelton
Description: This publication addresses our declining and fragmented public life that result in ineffective and trivialized public work. It describes a process and ways to use public work in order to reinvent citizenship to renew public life. It can be used with educators or community groups on the nature of public involvement.
The Forum for Youth Investment
Description: This web site is the home site for The Forum for Youth Investment, an organization committed to bringing all youth serving organizations to the table to help better serve the needs of youth. The site provides information about the organizational approach of the Forum as well as a listing of partners and supporters, links to research and policy agendas.