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Discovering Community Power: A Guide To Mobilizing Local Assets And Your Organization’s Capacity 

This tool (from ABCD: Asset Based Community Development, Northwestern University) is a community-building workbook that helps organizations identify strengths, resources and assets. It can be found in Assess Needs & Resources under...

Donor Fund-Raising Get Started Tool

This tool (from M+R) will help your organization plan or expand its efforts to secure funds from individual and corporate donors.

Effective Communication and Care Coordination

This tool (from National Quality Forum) provides resources to increase communication between patients and providers and implement stronger record keeping and more efficient, patient-centered care. It can be found in the Healthcare Professional and Advocate guide under...

Effective Recruitment of Coalition Members

This tool (from M + R) helps you analyze “what’s in it for them?” when recruiting a new organization. 

Equity & Empowerment Lens 2012

The Equity and Empowerment Lens (from Multnomah County Health Department, Portland, OR) is a set of principles, reflective questions, and processes that focuses at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels to improve planning, decision-making, and resource allocation, leading to more racially equitable...

Equity and Empowerment Lens: 5 Ps Worksheet

This tool (from Multnomah County) is part of Multnomah County, OR’s Equity and Empowerment Lens which seeks to improve planning, decision-making, and resource allocation leading to more racially equitable policies and programs. This worksheet asks questions in the areas of People, Place, Process, Power, and Purpose....

Evaluability Assessment

This tool (from United Nations Development Fund for Women) includes a checklist to assess whether your program is ready for evaluation. It is adapted from the Guidance Note on Carrying Out an Evaluability Assessment by the United Nations Development Fund for Women. It can be found in Evaluate Actions...

Evaluation Plan Template

This tool (from CHR&R) helps you create a plan to evaluate your program. 

Find it in Evaluate Actions under:...

Evidence in Action: A Guide to Selecting Effective Prevention Strategies

This tool (from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio and the Ohio Department of Health) outlines a step-by-step process to efficiently determine which strategies are likely to improve the health of your state or local community.

Example of a College Level Assignment

This example (from Laura Senier) illustrates how you can use the County Health Rankings in a course.