The Community Tool Box is the world's largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement.

To choose your pathway into the CTB, just click on one of the purple tabs at the top of the page or to the right under "What do you want to do today?"

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Welcome to the Community Tool Box

What do you want to do today?

Learn More about Using the CTB

Read a brief description about how to use the CTB and find a related framework for guiding your community work.

Table of Contents

Practical step-by-step guidance in specific community-building skills is available in over 300 sections.

Do the Work

Toolkits outline key tasks, examples, and support for 16 core competencies or skill areas.

Solve a Problem

Troubleshooting guides identify common challenges in doing this work, reflection questions, and links to supports.

Use Promising Approaches

Support for implementing key processes to promote change and improvement, and links to databases for best practices.

Connect with Others

Learn from others by asking a question of an advisor and linking to other online resources.

Thank you for making a difference!

Customized Services

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CTB Increases Global Reach

People from nations around the world are volunteering to translate and culturally adapt community capacity-building tools into Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese. Over one-third of one million plus visitor sessions per year come from countries outside of the U.S., but our vision is to reach even more people around the globe. Without funding for these efforts, we are relying on people like you who want to make a difference by helping translate and culturally adapt these tools. For more information, please email toolbox@ku.edu or call US (785) 864-0533.

What Users Are Saying

“I am preparing to work with a community group assisting them in the implementation of a community safety program. Three years ago, I implemented two community safety programs. From the beginning to the end, every time I advanced to a new phase in the program, I … read your pages for guidance, and reference. Your tools were extremely useful. Thank you.”

-Jairo Viafara; Winnipeg, Canada
Urban Planner and Sociologist