Community Engagement Tools:

Community Tool Box: a set of 16 online tool kits for doing community work. Each kit outlines a particular process/series of activities and provides examples from actual projects.  #2: Assessing Community Needs and Resources and #3: Analyzing Problems and Goals will be most relevant to your group projects, but you might find others of interest as well.

Research for Organizing Toolkit: a toolkit for Participatory Action Research created by the Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project; includes a step-by-step timeline for doing PAR, case studies, example activities, and example tools.

Project Proposal Outline:

Please use this “proposal writing short course” from the Foundation Center to as a guide for writing your project proposals (briefs).

Tips for your White Paper (Research Reports):

How to Write a White Paper

How to Present and Package a Report

Popular Education/Public Engagement Resources:

The Center for Urban Pedagogy: an NYC based non-profit that uses art and design to enhance civic engagement.  They are pros at making complex policy and planning issues more accessible to the general public, and in a way that is strategic for community organizing goals.  See especially their Making Policy Public and Envisioning Development series for group project ideas.

Hester Street Collaborative: another super cool NYC non-profit that uses art and design for social change, in collaboration with community groups and students.

Dr. Pop: a popular education website that helps people become better story-tellers and strategic thinkers; Dr. Pop tells complicated stories in simple ways, through games, videos, and other media, and then explains how to do it.

How to Write a White Paper

How to Present and Package a Report

The Center for Urban Pedagogy: an NYC based non-profit that uses art and design to enhance civic engagement.  They are pros at making complex policy and planning issues more accessible to the general public, and in a way that is strategic for community organizing goals.  See especially their Making Policy Public and Envisioning Development series for group project ideas.

Hester Street Collaborative: another super cool NYC non-profit that uses art and design for social change, in collaboration with community groups and students.

Dr. Pop: a popular education website that helps people become better story-tellers and strategic thinkers; Dr. Pop tells complicated stories in simple ways, through games, videos, and other media, and then explains how to do it.