Tools & Resources
Smart Chart 4.0
This tool (from Spitfire Strategies) is a free (log in suggested) interactive online tool that can help you make and assess strategic communications decisions.
Media Advocacy
This tool (from My Power People and M + R) includes guidance on writing letters to the editor, press releases, media advisories, media statements and op-eds, conducting successful editorial board meetings, contacting the media, interview do’s and don’ts, and tips for using social media. It can be found in Act...
Identifying Opponents
This tool (from Community Tool Box) includes two worksheets to help you determine who might oppose your advocacy campaign and the specific power your opponents have. It can be found in Act on What’s Important under...
Choosing Your Organization's Structure
This tool (from Community Toolbox) includes criteria for determining what type of structure will be right for your circumstances.
Making Decisions Tool #1: Brainstorming Techniques
This tool (from Community Tool Box) provides helpful steps and guidelines for generating many ideas at once.
Proclaiming Your Dream: Developing Vision and Mission Statements
This tool (from the Community Tool Box) provides guidance for developing vision and mission in the context of strategic planning.
Awareness Activities
These activities (from EdChange) address diversity, social identity, and cultural competence and include facilitation guidelines. This tool can be found in Work Together under Work Together to Advance Health Equity and under...
Governance is Governance
This tool (from Independence Sector) describes the functions, roles, responsibilities, and leadership dynamics between a board of directors and executive director.
Mobilizing the Immigrant Voice Toolkit, Section 1: Planning
This tool (from Partnership for Immigrant Leadership Action) is a comprehensive toolkit for mobilizing any electoral action. It includes a Leadership Development Audit Worksheet that can help you identify what your group needs to do to keep building community leadership, pp. 23-26.
Leveraging Diversity and Building Power
This tool (from Interactive Institute for Social Change) focuses on two strategies for deepening cultural competency and working across differences in ways that maximize creativity, catalyze strategic thinking, and build commitment to shared action. It can be found in Work Together under ...