Capacity Building: Linking Community Experience to Public Policy
A resource designed to help people in the public sector and in the community to understand how to link community experience to the policy-making process. Provides ideas about how to understand the public policy process, build capacities to link community experience to...
Communities and Local Government Working Together: A Resource Manual of Strategies
Seeks to create a climate of mutual respect and understanding between community groups and local governments by presenting Healthy Communities experiences from both the municipal and community group perspectives. – Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
A Municipal Guide to Community Resource Inventory Development
Introduces asset inventories and their practical application to support municipalities in preparing, conducting and utilizing a community resource inventory. Topics addressed include an overview of the community resource inventory, applications and relationship to...
A Glass Half-Full: How an Asset Approach Can Improve Community Health and Well-Being
Offers local authorities, health practitioners, and politicians an introduction to the asset model approach and principles and gives examples of how it is being used in England. It also outlines a set of coherent and structured tools that put asset model principles...
A Guide to Capacity Inventories: Mobilizing the Community Skills of Local Residents
This guide provides examples of capacity inventories developed and used by different communities across the United States, as well as practical reasons and valuable tips for conducting and using capacity inventories in your community. – John P. Kretzmann, John L....
Community Development and Community Capacity Building: an HPC Resource List
This resource provides a variety of information from provincial, national and international sources on the topic of community development and community capacity building. – Health Promotion Clearinghouse
The Community Capacity Building Tool
A planning tool to help build community capacity in health promotion projects. The tool gives you a snapshot of where you are—and where you still might go—in building community capacity for your project. – Public Health Agency of Canada
Communities “Life Cycle” Matrix
A free one-page graphic representation of four phases of community development that measures community readiness. – Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CIEL)