Tools & Resources
Catalytic Philanthropy
This tool (from Stanford Social Innovation Review) describes what funders can do to sustain community improvement initiatives.
Putting It All Together: Creating and Working with a Budget Document
This tool (from Community Tool Box) provides guidance that can help you manage finances, including five steps for analyzing and adjusting a budget, and steps for creating a budget document.
How Should I Make a Business Plan?
This tool (from Community Tool Box) provides guidance on developing a business plan, including what it should contain, how it should be written, and how it should be packaged.
Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory
This tool (from Wilder Research) is a free online questionnaire that can help you assess how your coalition is functioning generally.
Find it in Evaluate Actions under Evaluate Your Partnership and Make Changes.
Checklist for Sharing Positions and Other Resources
This tool (from Community Tool Box) can help you evaluate how to share resources, including people, time, technology, facilities, training, technical assistance, and money.
Mind Tools
This website includes a variety of tools and resources to make meetings more effective.
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 ...