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I run a small NGO in UK called East Africa Children's Project. I have just come back from Tanzania where we have a partnership with community based NGO. I would very much like to start up a mushroom project. We are sending a community worker for a mushroom course. I understand you have had experience in setting up a mushroom project. If you could give us some advise of how to set up the project it would benefit many people in rural Tanzania. Many thanks Piet Lagaay CEO

My parents are 73 & 76. They are in fair health but are in a house that is too big for them and they can't afford. Credit cards various are maxed out and they will likely need to declare bankruptcy.

That will leave them with ~ $3000/month to live on.

Is there a program by which a house could be purchased for my parents, to live in until they die and then that house would revert in ownership to my towns affordable housing trust?

I live in Falmouth, MA.

Thank you,
J

Hello, my name is Rebecca Miller. I recently graduated from the University of Akron with a Master's Degree in Social Work. I writing to you because I have recently gained employment at OneEighty, a non profit in Wooster, Ohio. My position is new to both the agency and myself. The title is the coordinated community response specialist. This is in regard to sexual assault and domestic violence. I would like to connect with other individuals or communities who have tackled this or a similar position. If your organization has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. Finally, any handouts or information would also be greatly appreciated.

Greetings to you, Sir. I am pleased to learn of your esteemed institution, and would like to introduce myself as a voluntary social work in Malaysia, and a Founder of Friends N Fans International Club's school of virtuous thoughts (a virtual face book group), aimed primarily to promote thought ethics and moral leadership online programs free-of-charge to help individuals and face book friends towards personal development. In this connection, I wish to seek your assistance to be a counselor for my above-mentioned group. Please visit my face book "Benny Francis" ( benwilan@rocketmail.com). This is a private mission towards world peace; love for humanity and happiness for mankind. Thank you for your kind co-operation.

Hi, I have been tasked to provide "something for caregivers" on a military installation. As of now there has been a flyer distributed advertising a "Caregivers Support Group" for the past 6 months but nobody shows to the meetings. Before researching additional community needs and designing a new intervention, what are the first steps I should take to find out why nobody is participating... whether it be a marketing need, the time of day, need for child care, etc. I have looked through the entire community toolkit website and feel overwhelmed about where to start.

Any help will be sincerely appreciated!!! :)

Hello, how do you suggest I cite the community tool box in a written report?

Thanks,
Gabi

Hi,

I am writing from the University of Puerto Rico at the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. We want to start a pilot program at one public high school at Carolina regarding gender violence prevention. We don't have a budget for an evaluation, but want to do some kind of evaluation of our own. I was wondering if you could help me identify:
1.the best research techniques for high school students (pre/post test or focus groups or both?)
2. Is there any research instrument validated regarding gender violence prevention for high school students that we can use as reference? Are they available in Spanish?
3. Since we don't want the students to feel is just another class, I think that if we use a pre/post test technique, they will feel is "another test" and will be unwilling to complete or answer it with concentration and honesty.

Since we will be offering more than one workshop, my concern is that if for the first one they see we are going to give them "tests", this could make them uninterested to take the other workshops.

Any advice will be more than appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I am looking for a sample community accountability contract that elected officials/candidates could be required to support/sign concerning issues affecting my community before supporting an elected official.

refused help by tec soup (software)
because we are non profit -cemetery. Need help for this group to understand we are registers.

Unfortunately to qualify for our donation program you organization must have 501(c)(3) status. Since your organization is a 501(c)(13) it would not be able qualify for our program.
Deadwood Cemetery
Deadwood Oregon
deadwoodcem.org
thanks you for any and all help

Good morning,

I am working to organize a statewide community peer-to-peer mental health advocacy and education organization here in New Mexico. There is interest and passion in the success of our group. We are thinking about using an association/collaborative of local chapters model. Can you please offer web resources that we can review to see how such a model is working for others?

Hi
I work for a community based housing provider in Australia. I want to ask our tenants when they enter housing and during their time with us questions about how the provision of safe and secure tenure housing enables the following: Quality of life; Ability to access services; Stability to enable education and look at work possibilities
Community connections; Reduced stress and positive impact on health. I was perhaps thinking of using a self efficacy approach that the provision of housing increases the tenants ability/confidence/security. Ideally want to ask about 5/6 questions we can track over time and by different tenant types age/location/etc. Do you know of any self-efficacy questions that cover these items or are similar so we can adapt? Thank you so much

Dear Advisor,

I am a PhD Candidate and instructor at the University of Toronto (Canada). I am designing an undergraduate course on Community Service Learning and Health Policy for the Fall Semester. One of the key areas that need to be included in community service delivery and program evaluation. I am wondering if I could use some of your resources for lectures and in-class activities, and whether or not you could suggest a list of references that I could provide for students.

Thanking you in advance for your time and support,

J. Cristian Rangel

Hello. I would like some help or resources to help me develop a survey that
will tell me the effectiveness of a presentation; the audience are
adolescents.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Adeline

I am a former activist who put up a technical-vocational training center near
my house that caters to those who cannot afford to go to school. It's goal
is to help out-of-school youth, the unemployed, housewives of poor families
develop attitudes, skills and knowledge that will help them gain employment
or put up small scale enterprises or cooperatives that will give them a daily
source of income and help alleviate their poverty.

My problem is I funded it with my personal money. But that is now almost
depleted and my students have still not been able to successfully establish
the small scale business we hoped would change their lives. Hence, we are in
danger of closing the project.

Could you teach me or help me network so that I could source some funding for
this project. I can no longer sustain it on my own.

I look forward to your response. Thanks!