Tools & Resources
Identifying Community Assets and Resources
This tool (from Community Tool Box) provides some specific techniques not only to help you identify community assets but ideas for how to use them as well. It can be found in Assess Needs & Resources under Identify community assets and resources.
Community Assets Brainstorm Exercise
This tool (from Healthy People 2020) is a two-page exercise that gives guidance for a brainstorming exercise to identify your community’s strengths. The Healthy People 2020 website and its contents have now been archived; this resource is included in the archived content.
Community Health Needs Assessment: chna.org
This tool (from Community Commons and other partners) is a free web-based platform designed to assist hospitals and organizations seeking to better understand the needs and assets of their communities and to collaborate to make measurable improvements in community health and well-being. It can be found in Assess Needs & Resources...
Possible Community Health Indicators
This tool (from Community Tool Box) describes what community needs and resources are and why, when and how to identify them. It includes a variety of indicators (e.g., children in poverty, unemployment rate), what they are an indicator of (e.g., social environment, prosperity), and potential sources of data (e.g., Census, state employment office).
Developing a Plan for Identifying Local Needs & Resources
This tool (from Community Tool Box) describes what community needs and resources are and why, when, and how to identify them.
It can be found in Assess Needs & Resources under
- Find Existing Data.
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Coalition Member Survey
This tool (from Coalitions Work) is a 45-item survey for members to rate the coalition on aspects related to planning, implementation, leadership, local and statewide involvement, communication, participation, progress, and outcomes.
Find it in Evaluate Actions under...
Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide
This tool (from Prevention Institute) provides a helpful framework for establishing a coalition.
Sphere of Influence
This tool (from CHR&R) helps you identify personal connections with the people who know the decision makers. It asks who do you know who knows the key decision makers? Your answers will help to build advocacy for the policy or system change you desire.
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.