Tools & Resources

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Mind Tools

This website includes a variety of tools and resources to make meetings more effective. 

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Awareness Activities

These activities (from EdChange) address diversity, social identity, and cultural competence and include facilitation guidelines. This tool can be found in Work Together under Work Together to Advance Health Equity and under...

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Governance is Governance

This tool (from Independence Sector) describes the functions, roles, responsibilities, and leadership dynamics between a board of directors and executive director.

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Mobilizing the Immigrant Voice Toolkit, Section 1: Planning

This tool (from Partnership for Immigrant Leadership Action) is a comprehensive toolkit for mobilizing any electoral action. It includes a Leadership Development Audit Worksheet that can help you  identify what your group needs to do to keep building community leadership, pp. 23-26. 

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Leveraging Diversity and Building Power

This tool (from Interactive Institute for Social Change) focuses on two strategies for deepening cultural competency and working across differences in ways that maximize creativity, catalyze strategic thinking, and build commitment to shared action. It can be found in Work Together under ...

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Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth

This tool (from Foundation Strategy Group) is a report that calls communities to bring together systems and stakeholders to improve outcomes for Opportunity Youth and to provide a high-level framework for a collective impact approach that will enable them to do so. Opportunity Youth are between the ages of 16 and 24 and are neither enrolled in school nor participating in the labor market...

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Sustainability Planning Guide for Healthy Communities

This tool (from CDC's Healthy Communities program) helps public and community health professionals develop a sustainability plan and learn key sustainability approaches. It can be found in Act on What’s Important under ...

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Tools for Assessing Startup Nonprofits

This tool (from La Piana Consulting) can help you understand what funders are looking for to determine the viability of a new startup organization, pp. 15-29.