Tools & Resources
Intervention Planning Matrix: Activity to support learning
This downloadable PowerPoint slide deck lays out an activity to use with your partners to practice using the Intervention Planning Matrix.
What is Policy?
This 2-page introductory fact sheet from Change Lab Solutions can help you introduce partners to the concept of policy change.
What Do You Want? Choosing a Local Policy Goal
This tool (from M+R) provides a set of criteria to help groups select a policy or systems change goal for their community. You can use this tool to facilitate meaningful discussion and decision-making that is grounded in a specific set of criteria.
Roadmaps to Health Community Grants Press Release
Eighteen State and Local Coalitions Receive Grants to Address Impact of Employment, Education, Community Safety and Social Supports that Affect Health—Join Twelve Other Grantees. This resource can be found in the About section under For the Media.
A Guide to Actionable Measurement
This tool (from the Gates Foundation) provides guidance on evaluating policy initiatives, including a list of Good Practices in Measurement (p.19) applicable to any evaluation. It can be found in Evaluate Actions under...
Healthy Homes Initiative
This tool (from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) is an initiative to address health hazards, such as mold, dust, lead, radon and other allergens or toxins in housing. It can be found in the Community Development guide under...
PICO
This organization (PICO) is a national network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities. It can be found in the Community Member guide under...
Industrial Areas Foundation
This organization (Industrial Areas Foundation) is a network of local faith and community-based organizations. They work at the local level to build broad-based organizing projects, which create new capacity in a community for leadership development, citizen-led action and relationships across the lines that often divide our communities. It can be found in the...
Stakeholder Mapping Tool
This tool (from Center for Creative Leadership) will help you identify the internal and external stakeholders involved in your focus area, understand their interests and concerns, and create strategies on how to get their support.