Description

Tools for people seeking to improve their communities

This significant guide puts the tools of democracy into everyone’s hands. Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 20-year experience in developing community leaders, it gives community members—like yourself—the tools to bring people together to make changes.

Here are some of the useful resources you’ll find:

• Identifying Community Assets

• Community Problem Analysis

• Accessing Community Data

• Appreciative Inquiry

• Translating Vision to Action

• Interpersonal Communication for Leaders

• Managing Interpersonal Conflict as a Leader

• Building Social Capital Across Cultures

• Network Mapping: Locating Your Social Capital

• Stakeholders Analysis

• Building Coalitions

• Building Effective Community Teams

• Recruiting and Sustaining Volunteers

• Getting the Most from Your Meetings