Identifying Needs and Assets
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Description: Community decisions require timely and accurate information. This Community Data Tools project was designed to assist individuals in gaining an understanding of the economic, social, and demographic circumstances of their county. Community Data Tools should be of interest to elected leaders, business leaders, nonprofits, grant writers, students and many others in Idaho and beyond. In today’s quickly changing world, it is important to understand local trends before making decisions that will impact communities for years to come.
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.
Description: Website for the Effective Communities Project (ECP), which seeks to help foundations, donors, and nonprofits increase their effectiveness. The website provides an overview of their programs and services, which focus on program evaluation, organizational effectiveness, strategic grantmaking, and capacity building.
Mapping the Assets of Your Community: A Key Component for Building Local Capacity 
Description: In this material, a procedure for mapping the assets of a community is described. The approach is one that has been developed by John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight in their book, Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets. It is a process that can be used in any community, and offers an effective strategy for involving a variety of people and organizations in helping bring about improvements in a communities.While this document embraces many of the key concepts advanced in the Kretzmann and McKnight volume, we seek to extend their work in two important ways. First, we offer a creative strategy for uncovering the pool of individuals who have the ingredients for taking on greater community leadership responsibilities. Second, we discuss the role that community asset mapping can play in promoting the type of community development that is concerned with engaging local people in community enhancement efforts.
Description: The Community Tool Box is the world's largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement, and is growing as a global resource for this work.
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Applying CYFERnet Resources to Evaluate Community Outcomes
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta; Peterson, Donna J.; Jakes, Susan S.
Description: A bulletin that discusses applying CYFERnet resources to evaluate community outcomes. It includes a program and evaluation plan using the Community Assets Survey applied to a program seeking to build the capacity of adult and youth leaders.
Applying CYFERnet Resources to Evaluate Community Outcomes: Drinking and Driving Prevention Program
Author: Jakes, Susan (22 more by this author); Taylor, Shirley H.; Marczak, Mary S.; Shannon, Lisa Cassidy
Description: A bulletin that discusses applying CYFERnet resources to evaluate community outcomes. It includes a program plan, and a process development evaluation plan applied to a drinking and driving community program targeting teens.
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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Applying Resources to Evaluate the National Outcomes: Increasing Community Involvement
Author: Jakes, Susan (22 more by this author); Shannon, Lisa Cassidy; Roper, Robin Goff
Description: A bulletin about applying CYFERnet resources to evaluate community outcomes. It includes program goals and objectives, and an evaluation plan to evaluate Community Voices, a leadership development program.
Assessing Your Collaboration: A Self Evaluation Tool
Author: Borden, Lynne (4 more by this author); Perkins, Daniel F.
Description: A tool that allows professionals and community groups to evaluate collaborations.
Clues to Rural Community Survival Workbook
Author: Luther, Vicki (1 more by this author); Milan Wall
Description: A workbook to accompany the Clues to Rural Community Survival booklet. The workbook provides community assessment tools related to the characteristics of successful communities.
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.
Do's and Don'ts of Community Surveys
Author: Guy, Stan (1 more by this author)
Description: A brief fact sheet on basic tips for conducting surveys in the community. It includes basic and general guidlines involved in conducting community surveys.
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 Comprehensive Community Change
Description: A report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's March 1997 Research and Evaluation Conference that provides an overview of how to conduct useful evaluations of comprehensive community initiatives.
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author)
Description: A resource that provides an example of how one might evaluate citizen development in a program designed to reduce vandalism in a community
Author: Jakes, Susan (22 more by this author); Shannon, Lisa Cassidy
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that gives information about indicators, measures, and tools for evaluating citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resources that introduces citizen development. It includes links to a literature review, indicators and measures, an evaluation example, an essay on citizen participation, and sources and annotations.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Literature Review
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Jakes, Susan S.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides a literature review of citizen development. The review includes discussions of human capital, community assets, empowerment, citizen participation, and community development. It also includes models of citizen development and links to other resources about citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that includes sources and annotations for citizen development.
Description: An introduction to resources that can be used to evaluate the national outcomes for communities. It includes a discussion of the rationale and background for the community change approach, models for community programming and evaluation, and links to indicators for community change.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Annotated Bibliography
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an annotated bibliography of policy development resources.
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Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: For More Information
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about policy development, including background, models, references, and links to internet resources.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Indicators of Policy Development
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about indicators and measures for evaluating policy development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an introduction to policy development in the community area. It includes links to indicators, measures, and tools, more information, a bibliography, and other related links.
Is Your Community Ready for Economic Development?
Author: Saldana, Luis
Description: This guide is designed to help communities determine how prepared they are to take on an economic development project. It consists mostly of lists of self-assessment questions and possible actions.
Laboratory for Community and Economic Development (LCED)
Description: This is the website for the Laboratory for Community and Economic Development of the University of Illinois Extension Department. It contains information about conferences for community development, community development and strategic planning information, community initiatives and how these can be implemented in specific communities, community evaluation tools and templates for conducting community evaluations, and economic information about specific counties in Illinois. It also contains information about developing tourism resources, and numerous links to other information.
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.
Making a Difference: Needs Assessment for Coalitions: CDFS-9
Author: Archer, Thomas; McCaslin, N. L.; Cripe, Robert
Description: A fact sheet that discusses needs assessment, including how to plan and design a needs assessment and how to report and use the information gained.
Measuring Community Success and Sustainability: An Interactive Workbook
Author: Flora, Cornelia (1 more by this author); S. Ratner, & J. Topolsky; M. Wall, S. Odell,; M. Kinsley, V. Luther,
Description: This resource provides an interactive web-based community assessment guide. It is based on a hard-copy publication of the same title that was published in 1999.
Sample Size for Community Needs and Resource Assessment Surveys
Description: A fact sheet that discusses issues concerning sample size for community surveys.
Author: Jakes, Susan (22 more by this author); Lisa C. Shannon
Description: This group of surveys is designed to measure different aspects of the community development and mobilization process. The surveys are provided in a ready-to-use format.
The Community Development Capacity Index: Measuring Change
Description: This website provides information regarding an assessment tool (the CDCI) designed to provide a framework for communities to evaluate the impact of community development initiatives. The measure allows for the exploration of community characteristics that relate to community and economic development practices. The page includes information about the survey and the survey itself, as well as goals for effective community benchmarking. It also provides a link to an interactive measurement tool.
The Community Survey: A tool for Participation and Fact Finding
Author: Andranovich, Greg; Robert E. Howel
Description: Practical guidance for conducting community surveys that can stand alone or be part of a broader community assessment/ planning effort.
– General Information –
Author: Copeland, Alison; Lisa Hamilton-Hill
Description: 4 Habitat is a partnership between the University of Missouri 4-H Youth Development Program, Human Environmental Sciences Architectural Studies Extension, and Show-Me Central Habitat for Humanity. The 4 Habitat team integrates: (1) 4-H/Extension staff, volunteer, and youth abilities and skills, (2) opportunities for 4-H youth to apply life skills and practice service to others, and (3) support for low-income homeowner families. Working with a Habitat for Humanity family, youth and volunteers engaged in a year-long service experience that enhanced youth skills in the areas of collaborative project planning and execution, home maintenance, interior design, energy efficiency, landscaping and nutrition. The Habitat for Humanity family learned about interior design and to care for their new home in a more energy efficient and cost efficient manner.
Youth focus group data revealed that the program fostered a sense of giving and accomplishment, the development of new skills and the transfer of knowledge to real world experience. In particular, youth learned about energy efficiency and electric bill savings, how to prepare and make meals last longer to save on grocery bills, and interior design concepts such as color and furniture selection. The family appreciated learning practical skills that will help them sustain their new home. They also valued working as a team with the youth, learning together as spouses, and all that 4 Habitat did for the family.
Description: This study examines social, medical and economic conditions affecting quality of life for low-income rural families in 3 states; tribal reservations are included. Policy recommendations are generated based focus group interviews and analysis of census data.
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.
Clues To Rural Community Survival
Author: Luther, Vicki (1 more by this author); Milan Wall
Description: Discusses 20 clues to rural community survival, which are characteristics of "winning" communities. Also includes case studies of 18 small towns from 14 states.
Clues to Rural Community Survival Workbook
Author: Luther, Vicki (1 more by this author); Milan Wall
Description: A workbook to accompany the Clues to Rural Community Survival booklet. The workbook provides community assessment tools related to the characteristics of successful communities.
Community Health: What You Need to Get Started
Author: Remenschneider, Mary; Kathleen Tajeu; Bonnie Carew; Barbara Garland
Description: What does the health scene look like these days? Where does your community fit? This Power Point presentation provides an overview of a CYFAR workshop session that shared information from the Southern Extension Region AssociationÂ’s Health Institute that can be used to develop health programs in your community. You will learn about the health system on a national, state, and local level, public health terms and concepts, and the community health assessment process.
Community Needs Assessment Survey Guide
Author: Guy, Stan (1 more by this author)
Description: Local elected officials, appointed staff and volunteer leaders are continually involved with the challenge of identifying community needs in order to work together in solving community problems. One effective method for identifying important problems is conducting a community needs assessment survey. These pages describe one method of community surveys that provides rapid feedback to community leaders.
Coping with Growth: Community Needs Assessment Techniques
Author: Butler, Lorna; Robert Howell
Description: Provides description, background information and processes for various techniques and resources for assessing community needs.
Author: Nordby, Ann (24 more by this author)
Description: This Technology trend explores the Obama administration's new policy of placing all government data online, with few exceptions. Researchers and government contract holders will have an easier time getting information on government spending, contract status, census data, health and safety information and much more as data.gov is rolled out over the next several years.
Do's and Don'ts of Community Surveys
Author: Guy, Stan (1 more by this author)
Description: A brief fact sheet on basic tips for conducting surveys in the community. It includes basic and general guidlines involved in conducting community surveys.
Economic Policy Institute - Economic Snapshots
Description: Updated weekly, EPI’s economic snapshots illustrate key economic trends or data from EPI’s current research.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Literature Review
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Jakes, Susan S.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides a literature review of citizen development. The review includes discussions of human capital, community assets, empowerment, citizen participation, and community development. It also includes models of citizen development and links to other resources about citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that includes sources and annotations for citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Annotated Bibliography
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an annotated bibliography of policy development resources.
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Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an introduction to policy development in the community area. It includes links to indicators, measures, and tools, more information, a bibliography, and other related links.
Evaluation Manual: Step 1 – Engage Stakeholders
Description: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers an introductory guide to program evaluation for public health programs. The first step in the CDC Framework approach to program evaluation is to engage the stakeholders, as described in the “Evaluation Manual: Step 1 – Engage Stakeholders”. This 10-page document outlines typical stakeholder groups in public health programs, explains why stakeholders are important to evaluations and their role in evaluations, and also includes a checklist for steps in engaging stakeholders as well as a number of worksheets to help identify key stakeholders and determine what program related issues matter to them.
Everybody Wins: Involving Youth in Community Needs Assessment
Author: Israel, Glenn
Description: This article presents a strategy for integrating community service learning with community development. It builds upon two methods in rural development: needs assessment and incorporating public schools in the development process. The strategy provides a way to conduct a valid needs assessment using survey research methods, while keeping costs low and involvement of local people high. It also provides an opportunity for students to have classroom and experiential learning on community development and needs assessment
Foundation Readiness for Community Transformation: Learning in Real Time
Author: Brown, Prudence
Description: This article describes the internal structures and
processes adopted by The Skillman Foundation
to support the iterative practice of “learning and
doing” in the first phase of a rapidly evolving, ambitious community change enterprise in six Detroit
neighborhoods
Latino Immigration and Community Development in Richmond, IN
Author: Jensen, Kumar
Description: A survey of Latino integration into the Richmond, IN community
Pew Partnership for Civic Change
Description: A website that offers research-based information on building healthy communities. The information is broken down into several topics, including building safe neighborhoods, living wage jobs, viable economics, healthy families and children, and collaborative leadership.
Description: Update of an excellent status of the south report. Covers a number of dimensions related to social change.
Description: Take Charge is a an interactive data base developed and supported by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development that provides leadership and community development relevant data at the county and city level.
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 Survey: A tool for Participation and Fact Finding
Author: Andranovich, Greg; Robert E. Howel
Description: Practical guidance for conducting community surveys that can stand alone or be part of a broader community assessment/ planning effort.
Author: Strolla, Leslie; Kim Gans, Patricia Risica
Description: Nutritional information for low-income families
– Professional Development –
Avoiding a Can of Worms: Basic Risk Management
Author: Seibold, Sheri; Patricia McGlaughlin, University of Illinois Extension
Description: Avoiding a Can of Worms: Basic Risk Management is a CYFAR 2009 presentation designed to help community program leaders 1)
Understand the basic terms & principles involved in managing risks; 2) Use a process for identifying, analyzing, and managing risks; and 3)Develop a risk management plan.
Beyond Environmental Scanning: Holistic Needs Assessment & Planning for Success
Author: Guin, Autumn (3 more by this author); Amy Chilcote
Description: Power point presentation from the Forging the Partnership 2011 DoD/USDA Family Resiliency Conference. This workshop presentation explored how environmental scanning and organizational climate studies can be used for needs assessment and strategic planning using examples from Cooperative Extension and K-12 partnerships.
Capturing Positive Youth Contributions using the Community Capitals Framework
Author: Baker, Barbara; Mary Emery; Sharon Kinsey; Matt Calvert; Richard Enfield; Bonita Williams
Description: Recognizing and utilizing community assets, such as social capital (bridging or bonding relationships) is beneficial to at-risk communities. A USDA research group aims to demonstrate how social capital is fostered and supported through 4-H. This presentation shares ways to document positive youth contributions through community mapping through active learning.
e-Commerce as a Strategy for Improving Business Vitality: Lessons Learned from Rural Businesses
Description: Entrepreneurs considering using e-commerce as a business development strategy can learn from the experience of others. Case studies can provide insight into the opportunities, challenges and potential impacts of e-commerce on business. Since many business owners seek assistance through counseling and classes, these case studies may be used by instructors to help illustrate the promise and the reality of e-commerce strategies.
Standing as examples of other entrepreneurs, these case studies help relate the story behind the business and serve as inspirations for small business owners seeking to develop or enhance their Web presence. In addition, they can relate to the processes which other small businesses undertook to develop and manage their e-commerce strategies and accompanying Web sites. These case studies focus on locally – owned rural businesses as opposed to branch plants or franchises. The selected businesses include rural firms of different sizes and in different stages of business development. These firms represent different types of communities with populations ranging from 300 to 57,053.
Maximizing Assets of Diverse Communities to Enhance Program
Author: Broadwater, Gae
Description: A popular tool that is used in program development is asset mapping. This teleconference will discuss key strategies for uncovering and accessing the assets within a community, particularly diverse groups, neighborhoods, and communities. Participants will consider how to apply these assets, resources, protective factors, and netowrks to maximize and enhance CYFAR / Extension programs and activities. Materials supporting this teleconference were developed for the CYFAR curriculum Strengthening Programs to Reach Diverse Audiences.
– Programming Resource –
Author: Copeland, Alison; Lisa Hamilton-Hill
Description: 4 Habitat is a partnership between the University of Missouri 4-H Youth Development Program, Human Environmental Sciences Architectural Studies Extension, and Show-Me Central Habitat for Humanity. The 4 Habitat team integrates: (1) 4-H/Extension staff, volunteer, and youth abilities and skills, (2) opportunities for 4-H youth to apply life skills and practice service to others, and (3) support for low-income homeowner families. Working with a Habitat for Humanity family, youth and volunteers engaged in a year-long service experience that enhanced youth skills in the areas of collaborative project planning and execution, home maintenance, interior design, energy efficiency, landscaping and nutrition. The Habitat for Humanity family learned about interior design and to care for their new home in a more energy efficient and cost efficient manner.
Youth focus group data revealed that the program fostered a sense of giving and accomplishment, the development of new skills and the transfer of knowledge to real world experience. In particular, youth learned about energy efficiency and electric bill savings, how to prepare and make meals last longer to save on grocery bills, and interior design concepts such as color and furniture selection. The family appreciated learning practical skills that will help them sustain their new home. They also valued working as a team with the youth, learning together as spouses, and all that 4 Habitat did for the family.
A Practical Guide for Engaging Stakeholders in Developing Evaluation Questions
Description: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides “A Practical Guide for Engaging Stakeholders in Developing Evaluation Questions” that is 48 pages in length and thoroughly describes the value of stakeholder engagement, and a step-by-step guide to involving stakeholders in developing evaluation questions. This guide also includes 4 planning worksheets that can be used to help identify relevant stakeholders; determine stakeholder roles, priorities and motivations; consider stakeholder engagement strategies; and select a proper stakeholder engagement strategy.
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011
Description: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011 is a compendium of indicators depicting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from our most reliable statistics, are easily understood by broad audiences. This report compiles the most recent national figures about the 75 million youth between ages zero and 17 in the U.S in seven different domains: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.
An Inventory of Measurement Tools for Evaluating Community Coalition Characteristics and Functions
Description: Prevention Research Center at University of South Carolina offers “An Inventory of Measurement Tools for Evaluating Community Coalition Characteristics and Functions” which is 33 pages in length. The entire document is essentially one long table listing published measurement tools, their primary and associated constructs (and definitions thereof), the number of items, and validity and reliability coefficients (where applicable and available) of each measure.
http://prevention.sph.sc.edu/tools/CoalitionEvalInvent.pdf
Applying CYFERnet Resources to Evaluate Community Outcomes
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta; Peterson, Donna J.; Jakes, Susan S.
Description: A bulletin that discusses applying CYFERnet resources to evaluate community outcomes. It includes a program and evaluation plan using the Community Assets Survey applied to a program seeking to build the capacity of adult and youth leaders.
Applying CYFERnet Resources to Evaluate Community Outcomes: Drinking and Driving Prevention Program
Author: Jakes, Susan (22 more by this author); Taylor, Shirley H.; Marczak, Mary S.; Shannon, Lisa Cassidy
Description: A bulletin that discusses applying CYFERnet resources to evaluate community outcomes. It includes a program plan, and a process development evaluation plan applied to a drinking and driving community program targeting teens.
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"
Applying Resources to Evaluate the National Outcomes: Increasing Community Involvement
Author: Jakes, Susan (22 more by this author); Shannon, Lisa Cassidy; Roper, Robin Goff
Description: A bulletin about applying CYFERnet resources to evaluate community outcomes. It includes program goals and objectives, and an evaluation plan to evaluate Community Voices, a leadership development program.
Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention
Author: Thornton, Timothy
Description: A resource about preventing youth violence. It includes the following chapters: 1) a section discussing planning, implementing, and evaluating an intervention; 2) strategies to prevent youth violence. It also includes a fact sheet about youth violence and information about a public health approach. In addition, it lists books and organizations involved with Violence Prevention.
Building a Foundation for Community Leadership: Involving Youth in Community Development Projects
Description: This handbook is designed to guide Extension agents, high school teachers, or adult leaders of youth organizations in creating and implementing their own youth leadership and community development project.
Building Communities for Tomorrow
Description: Comprehensive tool kit provides directions for a community building program involving visioning, planning, and data gathering. Includes checklists and extensive resource links. Discusses five kinds of community capital: financial, physical, environmental, human, and social. Includes tutorials and worksheets to carry out, analyze, and present a community data analysis.
Community Health: What You Need to Get Started
Author: Remenschneider, Mary; Kathleen Tajeu; Bonnie Carew; Barbara Garland
Description: What does the health scene look like these days? Where does your community fit? This Power Point presentation provides an overview of a CYFAR workshop session that shared information from the Southern Extension Region AssociationÂ’s Health Institute that can be used to develop health programs in your community. You will learn about the health system on a national, state, and local level, public health terms and concepts, and the community health assessment process.
Description: A program overview discussing a program in which community teams visit a different community while another team visits theirs. The information gained can help them learn about their respective communities.
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.
Conducting a Survey in Your Community
Author: Fesenmaier, Julie (2 more by this author)
Description: On-line guide and mechanism for conducting community surveys.
Coping with Growth: Community Needs Assessment Techniques
Author: Butler, Lorna; Robert Howell
Description: Provides description, background information and processes for various techniques and resources for assessing community needs.
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.
Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s Capacity
Description: • J. Kretzmann & J. McKnight (2005) of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University makes available a 36-page community-building workbook called “Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s Capacity”. It is designed to help nonprofit organizations strengthen themselves, the community, and their projects by enhancing and investing in connections with the community’s assets. The focus is primarily on asset-based frameworks, but in thinking about the community asset map and relationship-building inherent in the asset-based framework, stakeholder engagement (e.g., with residents, local institutions, associations, and community) is embedded in the approach.
Do's and Don'ts of Community Surveys
Author: Guy, Stan (1 more by this author)
Description: A brief fact sheet on basic tips for conducting surveys in the community. It includes basic and general guidlines involved in conducting community surveys.
Downtown and Business District Market Analysis
Author: Ryan, Bill; Bill Pinkovitz; Todd Barman; Matt Kures
Description: This market analysis workbook is designed to help local business leaders, entrepreneurs, developers, and economic development professionals understand the changing marketplace and identify business and real estate development opportunities that are realistic and make sense for their communities. It will introduce and guide the user through many of the analytical techniques used in analyzing specific development opportunities for a downtown area.
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.
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author)
Description: A resource that provides an example of how one might evaluate citizen development in a program designed to reduce vandalism in a community
Author: Jakes, Susan (22 more by this author); Shannon, Lisa Cassidy
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that gives information about indicators, measures, and tools for evaluating citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resources that introduces citizen development. It includes links to a literature review, indicators and measures, an evaluation example, an essay on citizen participation, and sources and annotations.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Literature Review
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Jakes, Susan S.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides a literature review of citizen development. The review includes discussions of human capital, community assets, empowerment, citizen participation, and community development. It also includes models of citizen development and links to other resources about citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that includes sources and annotations for citizen development.
Description: An introduction to resources that can be used to evaluate the national outcomes for communities. It includes a discussion of the rationale and background for the community change approach, models for community programming and evaluation, and links to indicators for community change.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Annotated Bibliography
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an annotated bibliography of policy development resources.
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Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: For More Information
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about policy development, including background, models, references, and links to internet resources.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Indicators of Policy Development
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about indicators and measures for evaluating policy development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an introduction to policy development in the community area. It includes links to indicators, measures, and tools, more information, a bibliography, and other related links.
Evidence-Based Practice for the Helping Professionals - Selecting a Database
Description: This site includes a table of evidence-based sources and web links sorted by discipline (Social Work, Psychology, Nursing, Medicine) and client type (e.g., Teaching & Learning EBP, Children, Families and Groups, Mental Health).
Evidence-Based Program Directory
Description: Find Youth Info provides an “Evidence-Based Program Directory” featuring evidence-based programs that aim to prevent and/or reduce delinquency and other problem behaviors among young people. This online directory is searchable by keywords, risk factor, or protective factor.
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.
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.
Is Your Community Ready for Economic Development?
Author: Saldana, Luis
Description: This guide is designed to help communities determine how prepared they are to take on an economic development project. It consists mostly of lists of self-assessment questions and possible actions.
Description: From the University of Wisconsin-Extension this brief outlines the process of involving key informants including possible questions to ask during key informant interviews and a sample invitation.
Laboratory for Community and Economic Development (LCED)
Description: This is the website for the Laboratory for Community and Economic Development of the University of Illinois Extension Department. It contains information about conferences for community development, community development and strategic planning information, community initiatives and how these can be implemented in specific communities, community evaluation tools and templates for conducting community evaluations, and economic information about specific counties in Illinois. It also contains information about developing tourism resources, and numerous links to other information.
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.
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.
Making a Difference: Needs Assessment for Coalitions: CDFS-9
Author: Archer, Thomas; McCaslin, N. L.; Cripe, Robert
Description: A fact sheet that discusses needs assessment, including how to plan and design a needs assessment and how to report and use the information gained.
Mapping Spiritual and Cultural Assets for Native American Students
Author: Fiscus, Carolyn; Cornelia Butler Flora
Description: A brief, concise slide show on assessing cultural and spiritual assets of Native American individuals, groups, and institutions for healthier and empowered Native American Communities. Specific context is university students, but principles are generalizable.
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Description: A project from the New York Times that allows users to browse population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations and patterns of housing development. This is an interactive map that presents national and county data.
Measuring Community Success and Sustainability
Author: Flora, Cornelia (1 more by this author); Ratner, Shanna; Kinsley, Michael; Odell, Susan
Description: An interactive workbook that describes how to measure impacts of economic and community development processes that enhance rural community sustainability.
Measuring Community Success and Sustainability: An Interactive Workbook
Author: Flora, Cornelia (1 more by this author); S. Ratner, & J. Topolsky; M. Wall, S. Odell,; M. Kinsley, V. Luther,
Description: This resource provides an interactive web-based community assessment guide. It is based on a hard-copy publication of the same title that was published in 1999.
Multi-stakeholder Community Inventory Modules
Description: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides a 59-page tool called “Multi-stakeholder Community Inventory Modules” which is designed to help communities engage diverse stakeholders to develop and implement a communitywide vision for improving health care quality and managing costs. Within each of 8 modules (Collaborative leadership, Public at-large engagement, Quality and efficiency measurement, Public reporting, Provider incentives, Consumer incentives, Strategy for improving quality, and Health information technology and exchange), this tool describes in detail why, when, how, and who to contact as relevant stakeholders. Although this guide is geared towards the health care arena, it provides an extensive framework for thinking about stakeholder engagement that can be applied in other settings as well.
Description: The Child Survival Technical Support Project and Catholic Relief Services produced an 86-page “Participatory Program Evaluation Manual: Involving Program Stakeholders in the Evaluation Process (2nd Ed.)” This manual is very thorough in its elaboration of a participatory evaluation methodology, describes 20 steps to be followed in planning and implementing a participatory evaluation process, and also discusses the caveats related to this methodology. The final section of this manual covers the role of community members in monitoring and evaluation activities as they relate to evaluating community programs.
Planning Together: How (and How Not) to Engage Stakeholders in Charting a Course
Description: The Community Problem-Solving Project at MIT offers a strategy tool called “Planning Together: How (and How Not) to Engage Stakeholders in Charting a Course”. This 27-page guidebook recognizes that engaging stakeholders in problem-solving is important, but also comes with a number of pitfalls, and thus presents strategic questions, related decision issues, and common caveats to consider when planning participatory approaches to problem-solving. This is a fairly extensive write-up covering a relatively broad-base of information, and references a few examples of stakeholder engagement in participatory problem-solving from around the world.
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.
Description: 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.
To make data readily available to local leaders, agencies, and organizations, the SRDC created this Data Center to provide information on more than three dozen variables for every county in the region.
Author: Richardson, James; Jonathan London
Description: This article describes the transformation of the National Rural Funders Collaborative (NRFC), a ten-year rural funding initiative to reduce rural poverty, from an initiative focused on increasing wealth, family self-sufficiency, and civic participation as necessary strategies for overcoming poverty to an initiative that understands the insufficiency of these strategies alone, without also addressing race, class, and power as structural and historical conditions that must be mitigated, if not eventually eliminated.
The Community Development Capacity Index: Measuring Change
Description: This website provides information regarding an assessment tool (the CDCI) designed to provide a framework for communities to evaluate the impact of community development initiatives. The measure allows for the exploration of community characteristics that relate to community and economic development practices. The page includes information about the survey and the survey itself, as well as goals for effective community benchmarking. It also provides a link to an interactive measurement tool.
The Community Survey: A tool for Participation and Fact Finding
Author: Andranovich, Greg; Robert E. Howel
Description: Practical guidance for conducting community surveys that can stand alone or be part of a broader community assessment/ planning effort.
The Main Street Managers Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain
Author: Fesenmaier, Julie (2 more by this author)
Description: Identifies 5 basic principles of community development:
C is for creating capital without which communities cannot complete.
L is for creating a learning community which is flexible and adaptive to change in today's global marketplace
I is for involving community groups and following principles of inclusiveness.
M is for the mission of our community development strategies.
B is for building broad based support for our mission.
Also includes worksheets and self-evaluation materials for program and organization workers to determine the needs of their community and how well they are facilitating community development.
The Teen Assessment Project: Supporting Youth, Strengthening Families, Building Strong Communities
Author: Cross, Charlotte (2 more by this author)
Description: A program overview descrbing the teen assessment project in New Hampshire. It also provides information for doing local community-wide teen assessment projects.
Using Asset-Based Community Development to Build Youth Programs
Author: Street, Beth; Connie Heiskell; Chasity Rice
Description: This Power Point presentation provides an overview of a workshop presented at CYFAR 2003 in which presenters shared how to incorporate community development into future or existing programs by developing asset-based inventories, catalog assets and incorporate a youth program called Building Communities to build youth/adult partnerships.
WHO Stakeholder Analysis PowerPoint
Description: World Health Organization's PowerPoint presentation on “Stakeholder Analysis” includes introductory information on stakeholder analysis.
World Bank Stakeholder Analysis
Description: From the World Bank, a brief guide to stakeholder analysis. This document describes who stakeholders are, 4 important characteristics to consider for stakeholder inclusion, and when and how to do stakeholder analysis.
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Description: This study examines social, medical and economic conditions affecting quality of life for low-income rural families in 3 states; tribal reservations are included. Policy recommendations are generated based focus group interviews and analysis of census data.
Clues To Rural Community Survival
Author: Luther, Vicki (1 more by this author); Milan Wall
Description: Discusses 20 clues to rural community survival, which are characteristics of "winning" communities. Also includes case studies of 18 small towns from 14 states.
Evaluating Comprehensive Community Change
Description: A report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's March 1997 Research and Evaluation Conference that provides an overview of how to conduct useful evaluations of comprehensive community initiatives.
Laboratory for Community and Economic Development (LCED)
Description: This is the website for the Laboratory for Community and Economic Development of the University of Illinois Extension Department. It contains information about conferences for community development, community development and strategic planning information, community initiatives and how these can be implemented in specific communities, community evaluation tools and templates for conducting community evaluations, and economic information about specific counties in Illinois. It also contains information about developing tourism resources, and numerous links to other information.
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.
Pew Partnership for Civic Change
Description: A website that offers research-based information on building healthy communities. The information is broken down into several topics, including building safe neighborhoods, living wage jobs, viable economics, healthy families and children, and collaborative leadership.
Description: Update of an excellent status of the south report. Covers a number of dimensions related to social change.
The Community Development Capacity Index: Measuring Change
Description: This website provides information regarding an assessment tool (the CDCI) designed to provide a framework for communities to evaluate the impact of community development initiatives. The measure allows for the exploration of community characteristics that relate to community and economic development practices. The page includes information about the survey and the survey itself, as well as goals for effective community benchmarking. It also provides a link to an interactive measurement tool.