The community toolbox materials that appear below are designed to be reproduced by community groups. These toolboxes address a variety of issues to help groups work effectively and to assist with approaches to team projects and challenges. The toolboxes fall in four categories:
Community Program Tools
(also see articles and papers below)
All links below lead to PDF files.
- Conducting a Housing Needs Assessment
- Creating Visitor-Friendly Shops and Studios
- Holding a Silent Auction
- Holding a Summit
- Listing a Site with the National Historic Register
- Mentoring with Grace
- Recruiting Diverse Groups
- Tupelo Model of Community Development
- Writing a Press Release
Facilitation & Group Process Tools
- Constructing a Folding Flip Chart Easel
- Facilitating Consensus Decisions
- Facilitator’s Techniques for Group Discussions
- Facilitating Meetings in Zoom
- Flip Chart Tricks
- Listening Skills
- Road Map for Public Speaking
- Setting Group Norms
Meeting Tools
- Getting People to Meetings
- Monitoring Your Group’s Health
- Planning and Leading Effective Meetings
- Serving Refreshments at a Meeting
- Taking Effective Minutes
Project Management Tools
Articles and papers
- Building Community Capacity
- 2008 Brushy Fork Annual Institute Opening Address
- Call to Leadership: a response to the events of September 11
- Community Transformation: a concept paper
- Leadership–What is It?
- No More Howling at the Moon: having an impact through collaboration
- Toward the Tipping Point: leadership and community transformation