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Digital S.M.A.R.T.S.: A guide for nonprofits
This tool (from Spitfire Strategies) will help you effectively divide your time across the most important digital platforms and create a comprehensive and integrated digital strategy.
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.
Embracing power and education for civic health
In this second episode of our three-part series, we’re tackling civic education and young people’s involvement in civic life: where we’re at as a country, what we can do to improve it and how it’s linked to our overall health. Host Beth Silver interviews prolific author Eric Liu, a self-described civic evangelist and CEO of Citizen University, an organization that promotes “powerful citizenship and civic education.” Silver and Liu discuss power, obligation and responsibility in a democracy.
Embracing the political: Organizing for change
How do we transition from organizing for change to enacting policy change? In this episode we’ll explore the power of labor unions to protect workers’ rights, health and wealth.
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...