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Framework for Getting Started

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Overview and Checklist

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Discover and Assess

• Age-Friendliness
• Animals, Pets and Well-Being
• Arts and Humanities
• Child Care
• Communications, Technology Infrastructure, Media
• Community Advocacy and Outreach Beyond Our Borders
  • Belfast Signs the Charter for Compassion
• Cultural Recognition
• Economy
• Education
• Environment
  • Which States Care Most About the Planet?
• Food
• Governance
• Healthcare
• Housing
  • Auckland's young homeless population: Lifewise Big Sleepout
  • Disrupting Homelessness
• Human Trafficking and Slavery
• Marginalized Populations: Treatment of People
• Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Well-Being
• Racism and Injustice
• Religious and Interfaith Groups
  • Bradford synagogue saved by city's Muslims
• Safety
• Transportation
• Water
• Youth Empowerment

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• Toolkit 2: Assessing Community Needs and Resources
• Chapter 3: Assessing Community Needs and Resources
  • Developing a Plan for Assessing Local Needs and Resources
  • Understanding and Describing the Community
  • Conducting Public Forums and Listening Sessions
  • Collecting Information about the Problem
  • Conducting Focus Groups
  • Identifying Community Assets and Resources
  • Conducting Concerns Surveys
  • Conducting Interviews
  • Implementing Photovoice in your Community
• Troubleshooting Guide
  • We need to understand the community or situation better
  • We don't understand the problem or goal
• Community Tool Box Coalition-Building Resources
  • Toolkit: Creating and Maintaining Partnerships
  • Promoting Participation among Diverse Groups
  • Involving Key Influentials in the Initiative
  • Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests
  • Identifying Targets and Agents of Change: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help
  • Involving People Most Affected by the Problem

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Next Steps: Focus and Commit

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• Toolkit 3: Analyzing Problems and Goals
• Toolkit 5: Developing Strategic and Action Plans
• Chapter 8: Developing a Strategic Plan
• Toolkit 7: Developing an Intervention
• Toolkit 8: Increasing Participation and Membership

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Next Steps: Build and Launch

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• Toolkit 8: Increasing Participation and Membership
• Chapter 4: Getting Issues on the Public Agenda
• Chapter 6: Promoting Interest in Community Issues
• Chapter 42, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Financial Sustainability
• Chapter 42, Section 3: Developing a Committee to Help with Financial Sustainability
• Chapter 46: Planning for Long-Term Institutionalization

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Next steps: Evaluate and Sustain

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• Toolkit 12: Evaluating the Initiative
• Toolkit 4: Developing a Framework for a Model of Change
• Chapter 36, Section 5: Developing an Evaluation Plan
• Section 37, Section 1: Choosing Questions and Planning the Evaluation
• Chapter 38: Some Methods for Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

Community Tool Box Resources—for Communication

• Chapter 6: Promoting Interest in Community Issues
• Chapter 6, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Communication
• Chapter 6, Section 3: Preparing Press Releases
• Chapter 6, Section 6: Preparing Guest Columns and Editorials

 Community Tool Box Resources—for Sustainability

• Toolkit 16: Sustaining the Work or Initiative
• Chapter 42, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Financial Sustainability
• Chapter 42, Section 3: Developing a Committee to Help with Financial Sustainability
• Chapter 46: Planning for Long-Term Institutionalization
• Troubleshooting Guide: Not enough money to sustain the program or initiative

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Overview: Spirituality and Community Building

• Being Compassionate
• Being Charitable Towards Others
• Forgiveness and Reconciliation
• Promoting Peace

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• Toolkit 9: Enhancing Cultural Competence

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