Tools & Resources
BetterEvaluation
This website is an international collaboration to improve evaluation practice and theory by sharing and generating information about options (methods or processes) and approaches. It can be found in Evaluate Actions under...
Submit a story
Submit a story to County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. We are interested not only in “success stories” but also lessons learned from challenges and setbacks you have faced. It can be found in the Communicate guide under Tell your story.
Message delivery: The interview
This tool helps you practice delivering your message using a mock interview. It can be found in the Communicate guide under Persuade decision makers.
Community Listening Forum Toolkit
This tool was designed for forums focused on recovery and addiction but can easily be used for any issue. It includes sample flyers, agendas, evaluations, and training materials for speakers to help you organize a Forum in your community. It can be found in the Communicate guide under...
The Midwest Academy Strategy Chart
This tool, from the Midwest Academy, provides a focal point for a group campaign planning process. It poses the necessary questions in a logical order and moves people through the planning process step by step.
Mapping Life Expectancy
This project, run by the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center on Society and Health, has created a series of maps that prominently display life expectancy values alongside common geographic landmarks such as subway stops and highway exits. This is an example of how community development and health professionals can team up to tell powerful stories about social determinants of health...
Building Healthy Places Toolkit
The Building Healthy Places Toolkit, from Urban Land Institute, includes 21 evidence-based recommendations related to physical activity, food and water, and the environment. This tool can be found in the Community Development guide under...
What Works for Health: Strategies to Improve Rural Health
What Works for Health: Strategies to Improve Rural Health outlines key steps toward building healthy communities – rural, urban, and anywhere in between – along with some specific policies and programs that can improve health. This report highlights selected strategies from What Works for Health.
Health Gaps Reports
These reports (from CHR&R) help answer the question: Why is there so much difference in the health of residents in one county compared to other counties in the same state? The reports explore how wide gaps are throughout each state and what is driving those differences.
Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens
Blending experience and candid advice from grantmakers, this guide (from GrantCraft) explores how a racial equity lens can help you scan your field or community, cultivate new leaders, encourage creative approaches, get people talking, and nourish change inside your own foundation. This tool can be found in the...