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Community Connections and Community Building
Community Collaboration and Coalitions
Community Connections and Community Building
Why Community Connections & Community Building
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Community Building Skills -- Practice Guides
Multiple Skills
- Community Building Toolbox
Major site to learn community work skills; to find tasks, examples and 16 core
competencies to plan the work; troubleshooting guides; best processes and
practices; and connect with others.
- The Citizen's
Handbook: A Guide to Building Community (Charles Dobson,
Vancouver Citizen's Committee) Community organizing, community
building activities, full text articles, citizen's library
describing useful books, short case studies (UNESCO) and links
are at this site. Vancouver info is in a separate section.
- Building
Coalitions Fact Sheets Index (Ohio State University Extension)
More than 15 fact sheets with bibliographies on topics such as: turf issues,
working with diverse cultures, tapping private sector resources, as well as coalition
basics including facilitator guide, needs assessment, and evaluation.
- CYFERNET:
Community
Resources on public involvement, community building, skills for working with
community groups, community assessment and development, resource and policy
development, and current community based program areas include community support
for families, child care, and schools. Practical research based information
from the Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network.
- Coalition
Building (Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources)
Annotated links to major coalition building sites on: Building a team, coalition
member checklist and responsibilities, facilitators guide, coalition tools
such as coalition job descriptions and sample by-laws, and tips sheets.
- Coalition
Building: Resources and Tipsheets (Community Partners,
Inc)
More than 30 downloadable pdf tipsheets on all aspects of coalitions, from
starting and building to barriers, sustaining, evaluating, involving youth,
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Community Assessment
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Promoting Participation
- Mobilizing
the Community (Ohio State University Extension)
Mobilizing a community: What and who needs to be involved, methods, strategies,
plannning, public relations, problems and payoffs.
- Working
with Diverse Cultures (Ohio State University Extension)
Tips for working with culturally diverse coallitions.
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Strategic Planning
Leadership and Group Facilitation
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Conflict and Turf Negotiation
Funding
- Foundations
in Wisconsin: A Directory
Check your public library to see if this is available in print or electronic
form. Published by Marquette University Raynor Library, it's the "only
directory of its kind which covers every active, grantmaking foundation in
the state of Wisconsin. 1,184 foundations are profiled, including contact information,
total assets, grants paid and areas of interest." The 3 centers below,
part of the 200 New York Foundation Center network,
should have this as well as other in-library access to additional grant databases
and funding information resources.
- U.S. Office
of Community Services (OCS), Administration for Children & Families,
DHHS
"Supports the 3,000+ neighborhood-based Community Action Agencies (CAAs)
and Community Development Corporations (CDCs) that address the economic and social
needs of the urban and rural poor at the local level by providing grant monies
and technical assistance to these organizations."
(Boyd: I added this since draft 2)
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Sustaining Collaboration
Evaluation and Coalition Self Assessment
- (Boyd, I think we should only have the Partnership Self Assessment
Tool, but then we lose the downloadable book on Medicine & Public
Health collaboration which you had me move from Research and
Evaluation Studies on Collaborations: Health and Nutrition. What
do you want me to do with the downloadable book? Forget about
it?)
- Center for the Advancement of
Collaborative Strategies in Health
Has a free web based Partnership Assessment
Tool, and a downloadable book on Medicine and Public Health collaboration.
From the New York Academy of Medicine.
- Partnership Self
Assessment Tool (Center for the Advancement of Collaborative
Strategies in Health, New York Academy of Medicine) Register
your partnership to conduct a free web based questionnaire
survey. " This information is analyzed by the system,
which then generates a report that describes the strengths
and weaknesses of the partnership. The Tool can be used to
track partnership progress over time."
- Community Tool
Box: Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives
"Information on developing a plan for evaluation, methods for evaluation,
and using evaluation to understand and improve the initiative."
- Wilder
Collaboration Factors Inventory
An online tool for assessing the 20 factors that influence the success of a
collaboration.
- Measures for Community Research (Aspen Institute)
Includes descriptions of primary data collection instruments, such as survey instruments, interview protocols, and self-assessment guides, used to evaluate outcomes in 8 strands such as Community Building, Youth Development and more.
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General Community Building Sites
- Community Building Toolbox
Major site to learn community work skills; to find tasks, examples and 16
core competencies to plan the work; troubleshooting guides; best processes
and practices; and connect with others.
- CYFERNET:
Community
Resources on public involvement, community building, skills for working with
community groups, community assessment and development, resource and policy development,
and current community based program areas include community support for families,
child care, and schools. Practical research based information from the Children,
Youth and Families Education and Research Network.
- Community Building Resource
Exchange (Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community
Initiatives for Children and Families.)
"Resources and information about innovative community building efforts to
revitalize poor neighborhoods and improve the life circumstances of residents
and their families."
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Community Collaboration and Coalitions
Why Collaborate and Form Coalitions
- A Process
for Building Coalitions (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Cooperative
Extension)
Short (~ 6 page) guidelines you should consider when building a coalition including "The
Value of Coalitions", "Analyze Your Own Organization Before You Begin" ,
and "If You
Join
a
Coalition, What Are You Promising?" By Dr. Georgia L. Stevens, Extension
Family Economics Policy Specialist.
- Introduction,
CDFS-1 to Collaboration (Ohio State University Fact Sheet)
Advantages and disadvantages on collaborating. Has definitions
and references. From the Ohio Center for Action on Coalitions.
- Community
How to Guide on Coalition Building (Prevention Clearinghouse)
First 4 pages of this 25 page pdf talk about advantages of coalitions.
- Critical
Issue: Establishing Collaborations and Partnerships (North
Central Regional Educational Laboratory, Napierville, IL, by
Kent Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Summary of why schools should partner with families, businesses and organizations,
with goals, implementation pitfalls, and links for action options and illustrative
cases.
- Multi-Sector
Community Collaboration - Assessing the Changing Environment
for Extension Work (UWEX)
Pages 4-7 of this 49 page pdf discuss the need for collaborations
and how UW-Extension is responding.
- Building
and Maintaining Community Coalitions On Behalf of Children,
Youth and Families (JoAnn Keith, Michigan
State University)
Findings and implications for collaborative efforts based on survey results
of 13 late 80s/early 90s collaborations. (Boyd, I don't see a
particular section that talks about why collaborations are important--which
section(s)
of this should I be highlighting in the summary abstract for this site? 8
& 10?, 1 is only a paragraph, 2 focuses so much on Michigan needs, but not
about why collaborate to meet those needs, 3 is just 2 paragraphs about theoretical
ecological theory and figures they refer to aren't there.)
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General Guides on Collaboration
- Community Building Toolbox
Major site to learn community work skills; to find tasks, examples and 16
core competencies to plan the work; troubleshooting guides; best processes
and practices; and connect with others.
- Community
How to Guide on Coalition Building (Prevention Clearinghouse)
25 page pdf with how to build a coalition, maintain, communicate and market it
with sample checklists, organization brochure and newsletter using an underage
drinking example.
- Collaboration
Handbook , 1994 Wilder Foundation
Book description, table of contents, order info.
- Coalition
Building (Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources)
Annotated links to major coalition building sites on: Building a team, coalition
member checklist and responsibilities, facilitators guide, coalition tools
such as coalition job descriptions and sample by-laws, and tips sheets.
Extension's Role in Community Collaboration
- Extension
Role in Community Groups (UWEX Cooperative Extension)
Evaluation report of 2000 survey of 44 Family Living educators on what kinds
of community groups they work with, what do Extension educators contribute,
and what difference does it make that Extension is involved.
- Journal of Extension (JOE)
Search this online full text peer reviewed journal. Suggested search: Change
Match to Boolean search and type community AND (coalition OR collaboration)
AND role. JOE automatically searches for word
variants and plurals. Search gets over 250 results that can be sorted by
time or score.
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Research & Evaluation Studies on Collaborations
Wisconsin Cooperative Extension
National with Multiple Issue Concerns
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Family & Youth
(BR: I removed the link form Family Living Program Studies
that jumped you to the list of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension list
of 4 studies and copied them here under this category so it's more
clear. Should I put UWEX stuff first even though it's
a repeat?)
Health & Nutrition
Multi-Sector
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Training Units and Curricula on Collaboration
General Collaboration & Coalitions
Sites
- Amherst H Wilder
Foundation
This MN nonprofit health and human services organization has great research
on collaboration
with an online collaboration factors inventory survey, and studies of projects
that involve collaboration that can be downloaded. They also sell
books (can you get from your library?) on topics such as collaboration, vital
communities, and funding.
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Credits
- Sites selected by Dr. Boyd Rossing, University of Extension
Cooperative Extension Community Development Specialist
and School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Sites annotated and web page by Barbara Lazewski, MLS,
Steenbock Library, UW-Madison, liaison librarian to University
of
Wisconsin-Extension
Cooperative Extension.
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