Getting Started
Assessment
An assessment to help your community understand its strengths and shortcomings through the eyes of a first time visitor.
Learn how to identify and assess community concerns, needs, and assets.
Asset Mapping
This platform offers ways to look at the data interactively, as well as provide more mapped data.
How to facilitate Mind Mapping to identify community repercussions from a disruption.
Asset mapping guidance and worksheet.
Instructional toolkit for applying participatory asset mapping.
Stakeholder mapping is a process of aligning projects or ideas with the people that will be most impacted by it. Connecting to people who could be negatively impacted by the project or issue allows early consideration to change plans with unanticipated consequences or that are not publicly supported. By aligning people or groups that benefit from the effort, the initiative gains resource connections and broader involvement.
Includes a capacity inventory, community participation and leadership inventory, inventory of local institutions, and asset mapping database.
Using case studies of small places around the country, this document shares ways that small towns are building on their assets.
Building Community
Are you excited to make a difference in your community? Have you noticed some things around you that you want to change? Check out our introductory lessons to community building to learn the basics of making lasting, positive change.
Recruiting Teams
Stakeholder mapping is a process of aligning projects or ideas with the people that will be most impacted by it. Connecting to people who could be negatively impacted by the project or issue allows early consideration to change plans with unanticipated consequences or that are not publicly supported. By aligning people or groups that benefit from the effort, the initiative gains resource connections and broader involvement.
Concept Paper Template
Template for creating a concept paper describing a project. This can be used to recruit team members to a project or to gain partners or sponsors.
Strategic Development
Free downloadable visioning canvas to plan your organization’s vision for the future. We aren’t soliciting anyone hire this business, but this free tool they provide may be helpful.