Guestbook Entries

I am an experienced community volunteer and leader with an undergraduate degree in Fine Art from Louisiana State University. I am passionate about connecting the youth of our rural community with the visual art world in conjunction with exploring, understanding and developing the individual's natural leadership style and creative problem solving skills so that they may direct their future career path and contribute to the growth and development of our local community and education system.

I am using the Comminty Tool Box as a current resource guide to better ensure all aspects of developing a long-term, sustainable action plan are utilized.

I'm using it to find volunteers, hmanitarians for long term work with my orphanage named FOVA-TOGO

My name is Oksie. I am 31 and and married with 2 children. I graduated from University of Papua New Guinea with a Bachelors Degree in Social Works in 2010. I have worked with couple of NGOs, the current being Care International in PNG. I have just established a community based organisation (Agarabi Community Development Agency) with the vision to see a poverty free community and where everyone is empowered.

The organisation is still in its infancy and I am very pleased that the Community Tool Box is very useful as it helps me almost everything I need to know about community development and how to manage a CBO with some experiences that I have gained while working other international NGOs. I can confidently say that Community Tool Box is doing so much by providing relevant and quality information available to assist people and organisations who have dreams to develop their communities.

I am using the site for my studies and it is very helpful and i will utilise it afterwards.

thank you.

I am an Mphil Student from the University For Development Studies, Ghana studying Community Health and Development.

The community tool Box has help me in my work in the community. I work for NGO's in the Area of data collection and analysis. The tool box has help me in doing proper community entry and community resource identification.

I am an African, specifically Liberian. I presently work as a career Diplomat in my country's Foreign Service. Beside my official duties as a Foreign Service officer of Liberia, I have been engaged in several volunteer services in my country as well as in the African Region.
While I was in Liberia, I founded the Liberia chapter of the Internet society, an organization that advocate and promote the opened Internet and access for all. I serve as its first President. I also work as a volunteer staff with the Liberia chamber of Commerce, where I was appointed as Director of Trade and Industry.
I have decided to connect with your platform to gain further idea in inspiring volunteerism in my country.

Since I am justing join this plateform, this tool box will be use to mobilize volunteer for my organizations

President of an umbrella organization for rare disease organizations; individual advocate for patients and patients' rights and change; board on International Alliance of Patients' Organizations, Drug Information Agency; Asia-Pacific Alliance of Patients' Organizations

Currently working for a non profit school based health organization. Recently, I became a Health educator for which I'm working on my Masters Degree.

Part of my responsibility is working with a youth group from different high schools in out parish. These amazing kids are focused on community and peer advocacy. Community Tool has assisted me in planning activities.

The Annette Strauss Institute is a non-profit organization on the University of Texas at Austin campus that encourages civic engagement and participation in Title I middle and high schools in Austin and Dallas areas by hosting the Speak Up! Speak Out! project, a civics fair centered around a grassroots problem solving curriculum culminating in a competition and presentation to judges.

The Community Toolbox is a new resource for me, but I am hoping to learn a lot from it. Most of my work at Annette Strauss centers around community outreach, fundraising, and volunteer coordination, and the Toolbox seems to have all kinds of resources to help me out in these areas. This looks to be an invaluable resource for all non-profit management professionals, whether inexperienced (like myself!) or professional. Thank you!

I manage and teach at NLCC. The centre is focused on social reform and the pathway to this is literacy as there is a tremendous gap here in a failing national education system which continues to disadvantage the poor and marginalised. Our aim is to start pre-school and young learners centres in communities that have a need and demand for it - using the Jolly Phonics program as the tool for delivery.

We have just identified a community that will be our first branch and I found excellent materials on CBT to help with understanding how to set up a community literacy centre , project design information , project monitoring and evaluation etc. The language used and models presented are easy to follow. To summarize , the power of CBT for me is taking complexed issues and presenting it in clear and workable models for people who want to become social reformers to be efficient , knowledgeable and professional in this endeavour. Thank You.

I am an entrepreneur leading a passionate team of developers to build a community development platform (part social networking site for community developers; part crowd-sourcing site for gathering the people with skills, knowledge, tools, or funding needed to implement ideas; and part project management / team collaboration software). We are definitely fans of CTB and the support/resources you provide to community organizers and would absolutely love to get your feedback on what we've built so far what it might be still lacking. We are currently still in the MVP/Alpha/Pre-Beta stages of our product development. Also, the platform itself has been built to be able to evolve and rapidly iterate as the needs of community developers and organizers change. We're currently on a 1-2 week development cycle, so you're feedback and suggestions will be implement quickly and are very appreciated. Looking forward to collaborating with you to find new and innovative ways to support community developers and organizers.

Our team greatly appreciates the knowledge, support, and articles (with cited sources) provided by Community Tool Box.

I am a full-time research assistant/trainer and part time doctoral student at the KU School of Social Welfare. I have experience providing training to mental health centers and other organizations in positive behavior support and wraparound. My areas of interest include interagency collaboration, systems of care, and proactive/preventative approaches to addressing children's mental health.

Still exploring it but will let you know. My colleagues and I have done work in creating regional interagency teams in Kansas all connected through a community-focused, positive behavior support framework. I'd like to see how some of our presentation and facilitation material matches with what's in the toolbox.

I am a lawyer and I am interested in the development and empowerment of young people.

I am really excited about this platform because I am about to carry out a skills training for young girls and the information on community tool box has highly equipped me to be able to effectively pass out knowledge to these persons. Thank you.

i am currently researching on how communication can be a tool to enhance various fields of endeavour. i will need help on the concept:communication tools or communication as a tool. this article on: Developing a Plan for Communication, has really been helpful.

Educator - BA Education, M.Ed Leadership,
currently in program PhD Ed Learning Instruction Innovation
Work focus:
Special education- Specific Learning Disabilities, Intellectually disability, Positive Behavior Support, Transition, integral technology, character education, social emotional learning,
Married, four adult children,

Today, I wanted to see what others are saying about Mission and Vision and alignment with Strategic Design

I am a Research Analyst with Advancement Project's Healthy City program. . I have been working as a researcher for about 10 years, both in an academic setting and currently as part of a non-profit organization that works locally in Los Angeles, California and state-wide, to provide capacity to partnering organizations who are interested in engaging their local community members to be a part of the research and advocacy on important issues their communities are experiencing, particularly as it relates to health equity.

Yes, our team has referenced the Community Tool Box when we developed a set of toolkits based on the community-based participatory action research framework and applied it to our workshops on community engaged mapping. This was and continues to be an instrumental website of resources. Thank you.

I work as a Senior Community Liaison Officer (HIV and AIDS) and my role is to coordinate the activities of different partners in order to strengthen the multi-sectoral HIV and AIDS response in the region. I also work closely with communities and support group members through nutrition and livelihood projects. Through community led structures, we raise awareness on HIV epidemic drivers we monitor changes within communities. We believe in the principle of using local resources and finding local solutions to problems within the community. Of-course there are numerous social issues that are challenging such as alcohol misuse, teenage pregnancy, low levels of education, unemployment, gender based violence especially rape and cultural practices that make women and girls vulnerable to HIV infection, however we continue to raise awareness and promote multi-stakeholder response.

The CTB is my resource corner. When I need information for either trainings or community based campaigns, dialogues I get onto the internet and do some reading and literature review.

I am a teacher and an entrepreneur. currently we are working on a new project on how to empower the disadvantaged youth in our local area. We would be glad to get more resources and help in making this project a reality.

Hello my name is Shirley Singleton, and I am the Program Director at FamiliesETC. located in Crystal Lake, IL. Our organization help families with children who are struggling with mental challenges. We also provide families with community resources to help them to become more stable in their households. We provide services to families that have challenges within the school system with their child. I would love to talk in more details about our organization with someone from your program.
I would like to know if there a hard copy version of your program; on the how to get started information.
Thank you.
Shirley Singleton

We are in the process of implementing a youth program for the community in our area. The program will promote wellness, positive peer to peer interactions, positive coping skills and communication among the youth in our community. The program will be located throughout the community.

I am a lecturer of Project Management at BA and MA levels who from time to time find pieces of your work useful particularly when dealing with community related studies.
how do I obtain a copy of your work?

I use it in the lectures that I give to students and sometimes in the training of communities

I am a male Ugandan, aged 34 years, of sound mind and integrity. I hold a Post Graduate Diploma in project planning and Management of Uganda Management Institute, a Bachelors Degree of Arts (Organizational Studies-major); a fellowship in Monitoring and Evaluation coupled with other certificates in Monitoring and Evaluation related courses. I have a strong development background and expertise in service delivery with broad experience and working knowledge. I am well versed with project planning implementation and reporting, Human resources management aspects, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, documentation, data management, capacity building, networking, financial management, organizational and communication skills with strong computer proficiency.

Ancient activist. Retired Psychologist/social worker and teacher. Old and disabled, but still going!