Related Links
The Community Tool Box – Partnership Development
The Community Tool Box includes practical guidance for the different tasks necessary to promote community health and development. The following site offers definitions to help start a coalition, step by step instructions, and useful examples.
Community Partners’ Health Access Network
This website offers definitions, agenda and population issues, and membership considerations in developing community partnerships.
The Lewin Group, Inc.
This publication provides information on different types of partnerships as well examples of organizational collaborative around the United States.
Washington, DC Office of Partnership and Grant Development
This site provides information on forming partnerships and collaborative as well as information on improving and evaluating existing partnerships.
Tom Wolff & Associates
Three worksheets below offer advice on creating a community coalition. The first details steps towards success, the next suggests membership tools, and the final worksheet breaks coalition development into three stages.
http://www.tomwolff.com/resources/cb_principles.pdf
http://www.tomwolff.com/resources/cb_membership.pdf
http://www.tomwolff.com/resources/cb_stages_dev.pdf
--Identifying Mission and Vision for the Partnership
The Community Tool Box—Developing Vision and Mission Statements
The Community Toolbox offers a variety of resources for developing a partnership. This link highlights important steps in creating and sustaining the mission and vision for your collaboration.
National Civic League
The National Civic League (NCL) is America's original advocate for community democracy. This document outlines steps for developing and implementing a mission and strategic vision. It also includes additional information on political issues in community based work.
Health Canada
This Health Canada website is designed to help people learn more about what community-based partnerships are and to offer suggestions about how to be effective in them. It provides tools and tips to enhance partnerships, and outlines what is needed to move forward together.
--Building Partnership Capacity
Prevention Institute
The Prevention Institute is dedicated to improving community health and well-being by providing tools and resources create effective primary prevention programs. The organization has focused on injury and violence prevention, traffic safety, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and youth development.
http://www.preventioninstitute.org/pdf/eightstep.pdf
http://www.preventioninstitute.org/pdf/collab_math_1S_021904.pdf
Washington, DC Office of Partnership and Grant Development
This site provides information on forming partnerships and collaboratives as well as information on improving and evaluating existing partnerships.
The Lewin Group, Inc.
This publication provides information on different types of partnerships as well examples of organizational collaboratives around the United States.
Assessment and Prioritization
--Identifying Your Priority Populations
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
This website provides an overview of conducting a community assessment and provides details for including your partnerships.
--Conducting a Needs Assessment
The Community Tool Box – Needs Assessment
The Community Tool Box includes practical guidance for the different tasks necessary to promote community health and development. This site provides information on identifying community needs and resources.
Capacity
Queensland Health
This Queensland Health website provides key strategies utilized identifies successful factors in their program for building community capacity in public health programs.
Health Canada
This Health Canada website is designed to help people learn more about understanding and effective application of community development. The handbook provides a resource for exploring and initiating community development and reviewing the basics of the community development process.
NSW Health
This site provides electronic manuals to help communities undergo the process of examining, understanding, and assessing community capacity.
Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network
CYFERnet's Community section offers a variety of resources on developing community and individual capacity to build stronger communities. The site provides information on mobilizing community members, developing policies, building community, and developing resources for the community.
California Endowment and The Public Health Institute
The Partnership for Public Health provides information on the importance of advocacy and policy in the field of public health. The site provides tips on how to get your organization involved with these activities.
--Assessing Social Determinants Of Health (SDOH) inequities
National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities
This National Institute of Health website provides information on the health disparities evident in the United States today. The site also provides information on the Institute and Centers’ strategic plans to address health disparities.
PolicyLink
The PolicyLink organization provides publications and resources on a variety of topics to help communities and organizations in creating and promoting public health topics.
The Prevention Institute
The Prevention Institute is dedicated to improving community health and well-being by providing tools and resources create effective primary prevention programs. The organization has focused on injury and violence prevention, traffic safety, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and youth development.
Office of Minority Health
The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities. The following document specifically addresses cultural and linguistic issues in community development.
The Community Tool Box – Cultural Competence
The Community Tool Box includes practical guidance for the different tasks necessary to promote community health and development. It provides definitions, examples, and various components of cultural competence issues.
National Center for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University
The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems. This site provides information on the importance of developing cultural competence in health programs.
Health Resources and Services Administration
This Department of Health and Human Services provides a guide for using culturally competence to improve healthcare.
University of Indiana
This University of Indiana website is specifically aimed at applying for grants at the University, but provides helpful general information for preparing a budget. The site also provides sample budget proposals in Excel format.
University of St. Thomas Faculty Grants Office
This website provides tips on how to calculate for specific budget items, such as travel, copy, telephone, and other miscellaneous expenses. It also provides information on how to calculate for inflation rates for long term project proposals.
Grants.gov
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies . The site provides a search engine to look for grants as well as information on how to prepare a grant proposal.
Department of Health and Human Services
This Department of Health and Human Services website provides a directory of HHS and other government grants. The site also contains information on how to apply and manage grants.
The Grantmanship Center
The Grantmanship Center provides a directory of funding resources at the federal, state, and local level. Grants are searchable at the state level.
The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center provides a list of state and local funding directories, along with tools for writing grants.
Office of Minority Health
Site specifically addresses locating funding for minority focused projects.
Community Partners’ Health Access Network
This document specifically details the usefulness of “mini-grants.” Outlines steps in making the grants work, evaluation, and monitoring suggestions.
Evaluation
The Community Tool Box- Evaluation
The Community Tool Box includes practical guidance for the different tasks necessary to promote community health and development. This section introduces the concept of evaluation, standards for developing a procedure, and applicable frameworks.
Tom Wolff & Associates
The following booklet offers six articles with varying approaches for evaluating coalitions. Also includes a multi-cultural perspective.
Community Partners’ Health Access Network
This document offers example communities, with operational definitions, tools to collect and analyze data, and possible barriers for consideration.
The Community Tool Box –Social Marketing
The Community Tool Box includes practical guidance for the different tasks necessary to promote community health and development. The site offers basic principles of marketing, and possible timelines/ stages for your process.
Health Canada
Quick tip sheet for creating a social marketing campaign, or sharing your results with the community.
Momentum
The Community Tool Box – Maintaining a Coalition
The Community Tool Box includes practical guidance for the different tasks necessary to promote community health and development. This site offers information regarding the importance of maintenance, tools for sustaining your work, and long term solutions.
--Sustaining Your Partnership’s Initiative
Community Partners’ Health Access Network
This document offers advice for maintaining coalitions, specifically addressing fundraising/ funding and long term issues.