Tools & Resources
Health Care Equity: Tool Kit for a Winning Policy Strategy
This toolkit (from The Praxis Project) provides analytical frameworks, tools, and concepts, drawing on lessons from successful grassroots policy advocacy that effectively shifted emphasis from individual blaming (behavior change) to institutional accountability (policy change).
Finding Your Inner Fundraiser
This tool (created by Stephanie Roth & Kim Klein of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal) includes a self assessment to identify ways board members and supporters can contribute to resource development.
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.
Money and Coalitions: Delights and Dilemmas
This tool (from Tom Wolff) can help you explore whether seeking outside funding is a good idea for your situation.
Tips for Maintaining Community Interest and Involvement
This tool (from Bank of Ideas) is a page of suggestions for keeping members and active participants involved and the community informed and supportive. Use it as a checklist for how to keep momentum going. It can be found in Work Together under ...
Coalition Mapping Worksheet
This tool (from M + R) can help identify new sources of support, resources, and perspectives.
Levels of Involvement in Decision Making
This tool (from Interaction Associates) helps leaders be clear about the decision to be made and how much to involve key stakeholders in that decision.
Phases of Discussion
This tool (from Interaction Associates) is a series of tools to generate alternatives, reach agreement, and evaluate alternatives.
Tools for Building Agreement
This tool (from Interaction Associates) includes tips for opening a discussion.
Meeting Effectiveness Inventory
This checklist (from Coalitions Work) is a tool for evaluating work group and coalition meeting effectiveness and productivity.