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Assessment

Learn how to develop a plan for community assessment to guide efforts to better understand community needs and resources.

Learn how to identify and assess community concerns, needs, and assets.

A toolbox of resources for assessing if your community is a “Climate Receiver” Place, ready to accept climate refugees.

An assessment to determine the need for housing in your community. 

This is a step-by-step guide intended to help communities and workers start the process of planning or responding to economic and social changes resulting from the energy transition or any major economic shift. It is a planning and action tool for community leaders, volunteers, and change agents

An assessment to help your community understand its strengths and shortcomings through the eyes of a first time visitor.

The Energy Communities IWG is here to support stakeholders with information about resources available to communities experiencing an energy transition. Connect with the Navigator team to help you navigate federal agencies and the opportunities they offer.

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.

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.

This toolkit provides a high-level overview of certain perspectives and practices that support leadershipfor comprehensive community development. It is for anyone involved or interested in neighborhood-based
community building.

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.

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.

Facilitation techniques to increase dialogue and decision making.

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