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    Hello,

    I am working on a macro analysis project for a course in my social work program. There is a huge problem of firearms kept in the home unlocked and loaded in an area of the city I live in. My topic is unrestricted access to firearms and related violence (accidental deaths, theft of firearms, criminal misuse). I want to implement a public awareness campaign to educate members of the community on firearm safety and how to properly store their firearms. I want my intervention to be primarily based on education through mass media, but I also think starting a petition and drafting a new bill that requires firearm owners to safely store their firearms is important. I'm not sure that this component can be added into my awareness campaign though. Is it too much to plan and carry out? Should I just focus on public education and not creating systematic change?
    		Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships Sun, 04/23/2017
    Examples of stakeholders and their interests
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    		 Sat, 02/11/2017
    How do I get a watchdog group started in reno,nv. to watch over the police agencies and hold them accountable for their actions?
         		Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships Sat, 09/24/2016
    Aloha, my name is Ginger Otto, I am a Preschool teacher at a Catholic School here on the Island of Kauai , Hawaii . I am a passionate gardener as well and we have the space to utilize just not the funding for a educational outdoor addition to our Preschool grounds. My dream is to build a walk in Chicken coup with nesting boxes along both sides so our preschoolers could daily get the eggs and they in turn would supply our cafeteria with the eggs needed for cooking in both the breakfast and lunch meals we provide for our school. It will be a very educational and enriching experience for them as well as contributing to the sustainability of our school. I have never applied for a grant and am a little intimidated about the thought but passionate enough about this goal I am willing to try to see what I can do. I guess my question is does this sound like something that may quailify for funding through Community Toolbox?? If so what are the steps I should take or where do I begin? Mahalo for your time. Aloha, Ginger
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    		 Sat, 08/27/2016
    please i need help with writing a proposal to an international donor to fund my project of offering free early childhood education which is also inclusive to help vulnerable children in my country.Ghana.
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    		 Fri, 08/26/2016
    I find this to be very very educative , i am in Kenya and doing conservation work, if we can be helped to organised our program to receive funding
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    		 Sun, 07/24/2016
    Hello Advisor,
    My name is Frank Wieman and I live in Lorain, Ohio.
    I am in the process of starting a non profit foundation with as main objective "share the power of sports for underprivileged children!". Because I believe sport can help children to improve themselves both physical as mental. They can learn life long skills. That's why I am very enthusiastic about this. I am new to the non profit sector and encountered the Community Toolbox. This looks very sophisticated and well maintained! At the other hand I have difficulties about where to start, it looks overwhelming to me. Here does my question appear.
    Please can you tell me how I can use the Community Toolbox or where to start? Do I need everything? If not, what do I need? If you would like to have an idea what our foundation is about please visit www.spsuc.org .
    Thank you very much for your time!
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    		 Mon, 07/18/2016
    how to conduct community organization meeting?
    what are the ways of establishing a good relationship with the community?
         		Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships Fri, 07/01/2016
    Hi

    I'm interested in making this my career--to create shared value by using the community toolbox to decide on a community solution and then apply it through a community partnership or buying a small business and applying that solution strategy to the current business strategy.

    creating shared value
    http://www.isc.hbs.edu/creating-shared-value/Pages/default.aspx

    How do you recommend that I get started? Do you have suggestions for the ideal outcome or plan? I'm thinking it may be best to pick a community to start in and then find the problem and then find a business that would be a good fit to apply it.

    Thanks,

    Matt
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattshark32
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    		 Thu, 06/30/2016
    I am a psychologist with over 16 years experience in mental health. I would like to receive general advice on where to start on a community initiative to decrease domestic violence in the African immigrant communities in Atlanta, Ga. October is Domestic awareness month and would like to start the conversation about the effects of abuse on families and communities. To involve African churches in reducing the stigma of mental health through prevention methods.
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    		 Wed, 06/22/2016
    I come from a country where it is legal to marry 11 year old (very young) girls. How do i bring change to my community and country
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    		 Mon, 06/13/2016
    we would enjoy educating our community, help them become more aware of suicide. Survivors of suicide tools to help them heal would be so great. Thank you so much for any information we can use.
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    		 Sat, 05/14/2016
    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?
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    		 Fri, 05/13/2016
    I read the tool box with great interest. I am interested to move forward and bring a change in the lives of people around me. Do you have programmes in India I wish to associate with your organisation? Please guide me
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    		 Sat, 04/30/2016
    Hello,
    I am totally confused, as I have read so much. I cannot figure out what precisely to put in the following:
    1) Itemized Description of proposed my program.
    2) Itemized Description of proposed pilot study (what is this?)
    3) Itemized Description of proposed evaluation of the pilot study including a tool (Six Sigma, TQM) to improve the proposed piloted process
    4) Itemized Description of what other health care organizations and/or NGOs have done to address my initiative.

    I am following the Promoting Healthy Living and Preventing Chronic Disease An Action Planning Guide for Communities
    A publication of the KU Work Group for Community Health and Development The University of Kansas
    http://communityhealth.ku.edu/

    Can you please provide examples where I can see precisely what to put in these documents. I have gathered all the data there is. I have my goal, vision, mission statement, strategies, and action plans, which are all evidence-based, that concern:
    1. physical activity,
    2. healthy eating,
    3. tobacco use, and
    4. access to care and preventive services.

    I know my 5 strategies are:
    1. providing information and enhancing skills
    2. modifying access, barriers, and opportunities
    3. enhancing services and support
    4. changing the consequences (incentives)
    5. modifying policies and broader conditions

    My framework for Promoting Healthy Living is the IOM (2003):
    1. Assessment & Collaborative Planning
    2. Targeted Action & Intervention
    3. Community & System Change
    4. Widespread Behavior Change
    5. Improvement in Population level Outcomes

    I have planned for new or modified programs, policies, and practices in the strategies. I do not know what section (e.g., description of proposed program, pilot study, evaluation of pilot study) I need to put this in.

    However, I have not been able to meet with anybody in town - I have only had 8 days to look this up. I do know from talking to people on the phone that my county in Arkansas has very little active coalitions due to budget cuts and losing funding.

    I am not getting a grant or implementing social marketing. My teacher knows that I have not met with anyone - I cannot give details of meetings.

    My initiative deals with Pope County's community sectors of the: business community, health organizations, school district, and broader community.

    My teacher does not want us to give her a detailed logic model.
    Plus this can only be 5-7 pages long. APA 6th edition, doubled spaced, with citations. The reference page can be page 8+. I am totally vexed.

    Can you please help. I have done all the work. I cannot find examples anywhere on line except for CHNAs that have not-for-profit hospitals doing community needs assessments. Yes, I am bringing the hospital in as a potential collaborator, but I am to act as if there is no coalitions, or action taking place. Plus, no one in the community seems to want to help with the severe problem of CVD, cancer, diabetes, tobacco use, etc....I know what are my modified risks. I know what are my key drivers. I know what are my vulnerable populations.

    I just do not know what to place in what sections.
    Can you please help?
    Thank you ,
    Tracey K. Carr
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    		 Tue, 04/26/2016
    1. If you were a barangay chairman, how will you address the issue of the people working in the informal economy?

    2. Do you agree with the informal economy, even though it may be unfair to those who pay the right taxes? Why or why not?

    3. As a leader of a community, how will you alleviate poverty? What steps or actions would you take? Explain.

    Thanks
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    		 Fri, 04/15/2016
    Would you please guide me in how my organization can help a Latino community from a vulnerable community in East Bay, Parents are apathetic in getting involve in they children education. The majority of parents don't participate in school meetings, school district board meetings, educational class etc.
    How we can turn around the parents indifferent behavior to increase parents participation?
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    		 Thu, 04/14/2016
    Dear Advisor of Community Tool Box,

    A small "public library" committee is trying to start action to that goal in Byron, MN, a rich, professional suburb of Rochester Minnesota with the Mayo Clinic. Our community started as a small 600 pop. rural farm community and has grown over the years to a bedroom community of Mayo Clinic professionals, senior citizens, and a superb flourishing elite school system. We would like to have a small library. We have received funding support of the Byron Community Foundation to develop an information sheet for distribution to Byron organizations for a later community support survey. I have read your helps and they're great, but wonder if you might have any specific info for our situation. appreciate your wonderful website.
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    		 Thu, 04/14/2016
    I am looking to develop an assessment of baseline health information for a group of people in a different country that has asked for a health clinic to be built with the help of another outreach group. The outreach group needs to find a way to establish why the community wants the health clinic and what it will be used for, along with a baseline assessment. My degree is in public health so I have been asked to help with this. It has been so long since I have created something like this and was looking for a place to start as there are a number of obstacles to overcome with this assessment (like language, culture/societal norms etc). Any guidance would be appreciated.
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    		 Tue, 12/29/2015
    I am working on a project that is trying to connect multiple groups, across professional sectors as well as community members, in an effort to reduce recidivism/enhance community stability for individuals and families after incarceration. One of the things we are trying to do is create a resource guide/reference guide type document for people to reference about what services exist, and basic information on how they are structured. For example, a mental health professional could reference it to get a basic idea of how community corrections works, what services they provide, how the funding works, and a general contact number/site for more information. Or a case manager in a correctional facility could reference it to see how a person quaifies for Medicaid, or how substance abuse treatment is paid for in Iowa and how the waitlists work. I've done a lot of looking around to try and find some guidance or even an example of what I am trying to do- basically a source of information to better connect people to services that already exist to try and reduce duplication, identify gaps, and reduce the "silo" effect. Not a directory, but it would have important contacts in it. Is this something you have any resources you could point me towards? Or language to describe it even? If not no worries, I might be making it more complicated than it actually is.

    Your site is amazing, and I am sure I will visit it frequently now that I have discovered it, thanks!
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    		 Wed, 12/09/2015
    Hello! Do any of you provide (a 90-minute) presentations/discussions to not-for-profits on your toolbox--a summary of the modules, how it works, its efficacy in communities, etc.? I'm with a hospital assn., and our members are all NFPs. We are putting on a conference in March (16-18, in Bozeman), and want to provide some conceptual education (that gets into the how-tos) about building coalitions to improve the health of their communities. Many of them are small, rural/frontier, and this is fairly new for them. I'd like to start at the beginning with them to show how it can be done, no matter their size or location. Thank you.
         		Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships Mon, 12/07/2015
    Please help me my assignment wants me to write a planning session with the community and design a project to be done at the community
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    		 Sun, 12/06/2015
    Hello, I am searching for a training around community organizing. Our organization uses your Community Toolbox and we are currently looking at ways to expand our offerings around community organizing.
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    		 Wed, 11/18/2015
    Hi,
    I am an ASU student in Phoenix area, working on my Doctorate of Nurse Practitioner (DNP) and I am wanting to do a project that will help people change their Lifestyle. With an increase in diseases that are lifestyle related, such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes, it would be fantastic for providers in primary care to have community program to help with this increasingly worrisome problem. If providers could send their patients for education and support, progress could be made in the community toward reducing the diseases caused by poor lifestyle habits. I would like to do something with diet as there is evidence to support eating 80 % whole plant based foods, but it is difficult to do. However with the right education and support it can be done. I am wondering if there are others in the Phoenix area interested in working on an initiative to help people with lifestyle changes. I may be asking the wrong person, but I thought it could be a start and / or you could direct me in the right direction.
    Thanks!
         		Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships Mon, 09/28/2015
    we have to set a process to access chairmans office like about access to him and his work place his travel i am his PA please help ASAP would be much appreciated
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    		 Tue, 09/01/2015
    i am a young graduate of chemical engineering. i am currently serving in a community that has a very low literacy level. i intend to begin an adult literacy program. i have not received any level of training on adult education, but i really want to make the difference in the lives of the people over here and am willing to give all it takes. please, how do i go about this, step by step? thanks
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    		 Mon, 08/31/2015
    i need an idea for creating an organisation called Think Big Africa
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    		 Fri, 08/21/2015
    How can I write a proposal to appoint youth based community based organizations to facilitate weekly sessions on keys areas of youth skills development at the career development, business support, computer literacy, leadership, life skills and Moral Regeneration Implementation, coordination and facilitation of the Youth Employment?
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    		 Sun, 08/16/2015
    Can 1 advocacy group stand for rights of two groups on opposite side of the fence, in case where the problem is as a result of each party over states its right over that of the other which does the same as well?
    		Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships Sun, 08/09/2015
    Is there anything in your tool box concerning States changing to understand that it is everyone that is in essence responsible when a felon gets re-incarcerated? Do you have anything in your toolbox that explains how communities can support felons more to stay out of prison? The reason I ask is there isn't much of that kind of support going on. That is a change that needs to happen. Help with getting a job, a place to live and support to keep straight. You have in your tool box information on how to form coalitions, well maybe communities can form coalitions where business and housing personnel can work with prisons to help with making a much smoother transition for the felons.
    Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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    hi, my name is remofiloe from mafikeng. i am trying to start a youth organization that is more christian and involved in the community. my concern is that where we live we don't really have a place to meet and the young people in our community don't show interest in what we are trying to do. it is so bad that i even think of quitting. what can i do to make them join this because the way i see it , it's like they don't like me. i really need help!!!
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    		 Tue, 07/21/2015
    Dear Team,
    I recently established a Non-profit organization and I am trying to learn writing a proposal. Recently, I was asked to submit a Grant Proposal and I have been working on it until I stumble to your website.
    My organization is called Life Wells Foundation. Its objective is to improve the lives of all Ethiopians by bringing safe, clean water sources to remote villages.
    My Question to you is, would you help me review my proposal? Will anyone in your group willing to volunteer to help me write a proposal?
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    		 Mon, 07/20/2015
    Do you have any recommendations for tools to use in starting a school based health center in a high school community that is experiencing economic hardship? I'm thinking how to orient parents, educators, and residents at large to services available? Also, wanting to start at Health Club and looking for tips on engaging students. Thanks.
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    		 Thu, 07/09/2015
    We have a problem in our community with educational attainment. Roughly 40% of 18-24 year olds in our community do not go on to college. 35% of them have no high school diploma. What can we do to get started to implement a Degrees Matter program. I don't know where to start. At first I wrote a 15 minute speech citing statistics of education attainment and median household income compared to similar small towns doing a lot better job of encouraging education. I thought funding a better library program would be a great place to start but after speaking with the library director she said that we didn't need to make improvements as funding is already coming in that respect.

    I want this community to do better than being known as the infamous prison town that it is. With a median household income of about 39000.

    Thank you for your help.
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    		 Mon, 07/06/2015
    Hi there!

    I've completed a community assessment of a neighbourhood in Toronto. Some important primary data I have observed is the numerous community and recreational services, as well as a large park that is the centre of the community. I am trying to implement a social marketing ad but I am not sure what I can do without making any assumptions about the community population (i.e. I wanted to hold a health fair that brings all the services to one place so the community can access it and see all the available resources to them, but is that assuming they don't already use these resources?). Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

    Thanks!
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    		 Wed, 03/04/2015
    Before going further permit me to introduce ourselves:
    The Sanniquellie Youth Association is the conglomeration of various Youth groups within Nimba County. It is an umbrella organization that in-house all small youth group and grooming them to have one voice so as to take up the challenges of our social development. This Association stands for Peace, Advocacy, Construction of Youth Center, Constructive Dialogue and Development in our district and County and Country at large.
    we have our youth group call the Sanniquellie Youth Association in Liberia, how can we partner with you to help train our many youth groups? How can be of support to you?
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    		 Mon, 01/12/2015
    I have begun researching community collaboration. Yet I believe communities participate informally in community collaboration whether it is shared planning in community events e.g., health fairs, wellness conferences to name a few, or informal meetings or formalized meetings, yet these community collaboration processes or categories/types of community collaborations are not identified. Can you point me to awesome resources?
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    		 Thu, 01/08/2015
    where are you begin when you are developing a program especially a youth cup development ? that is the first?question .
    and second question haw you can create project and what are the steps that you need to take ,and give me a sample showed me step by step defining the creation of project?
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    		 Thu, 10/30/2014
    I am interested in starting an organization in my town to provide community members, especially families, outreach opportunities, as well as cultural education seminars/workshops for children roughly 4-10yrs old.

    I covet any suggestions, feedback, direction that could come my way regarding this endeavor. I am headed to look through your toolkits now and over the weekend will be working on firming up the mission/vision of the organization and hopefully drawing a crystal clear line showing how cultural awareness/understanding goes hand in hand with community service. Something like if people know more about each other, they feel more connected and are more willing to give...

    I live in a VERY affluent community, very white, very much lacking diversity and community service and I would like to see these two things grow and thrive here and need as much help as I can get building a case, finding funding, connecting community service and cultural education, etc....

    So I am off to read everything I can now on your website and if it works for someone to call me I would be ever so grateful.

    Thank you!!
    Jocelyn
    978-239-5390
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    		 Fri, 09/26/2014
    a builder is taking up a park in our area and planning to build a shopping complex . please suggest some ways to stop this ?
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    		 Thu, 09/25/2014
    Hello, My name is Kami and i just wanted to know what i should be doing to start my own youth project/organization in my surrounding so that i can help the community with that. Thanks !
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    		 Wed, 09/17/2014
    Sir/Madam,I am a teacher and professional counselor who lives in a community with a high illiteracy rate and yet many of the children do not attend school. It is my desire to establish a Community Counseling Center to help the people in my community. But my resources are limited. What should I do? I am a Ghanaian.
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    		 Fri, 09/12/2014
    I write from nairobi Kenya. My concern is with the encroachment of developers into Nairobi (Kariokor) War Cemetery. This is a Second World War, now closed facility.
    Kindly advice us on how to go about it wadding off land speculators as we endevour to guard this historic site.
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    		 Tue, 08/12/2014
    what do i have to do after planning my youth organization
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    		 Mon, 07/28/2014
    We are planning a half-day training for nonprofits in collaboration and would like to offer a substantial section on building trust. Could you recommend a speaker or trainer who is particularly adept in this aspect of collaboration? Prefer based in US - west coast. Thank you.
         		Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships Mon, 07/28/2014
    Hello! I have a "lengthy issue" for which I am seeking your advice...... but first of all, I wish to thank you for the work you do. My name is Jacqueline A. Juhl, RDH, MSDH Candidate (double emphasis: Dental Hygiene Education and Dental Public Health). As a graduate student, I learned of your website and have continued to access it for work in my rural community to help form an oral health coalition. I currently teach at downtown Seattle dental hygiene baccalaureate program (quite the commute!) and teach a three part Community Oral Health Series, among other classes. I have encouraged my students to access your site in their course research and have provided them with links to specifics from your site in my PPTs. Thank you all so much for the great work you do!
    My issue/question is this: I see such a gap in equity to access to oral health care in our present health care delivery system. Also, as we continue to establish credible oral-system disease interactions, the void in inter-professional oral health knowledge and education has promulgated a lack of oral care for hospitalized patients in our country, a void not seen in the UK and other countries globally. It is now established that the lack of oral care for hospitalized patients negatively impacts health outcomes, can precipitate additional cardio-vascular events, and costs patients thousands of dollars in additional hospitalization days. Together with a small group of "Alternative Practice" dental hygienists in Washington State and with my experience in hospital dentistry, and based on current research of disease processes, I hope to contribute to improving health care outcomes for all, including hospitalized patients. In my future doctoral work, and through other efforts, I hope convince hospital CEOs, Boards, and the public of the need to staff hospitals and emergency departments with advance practice dental hygiene professionals and dental hygienists as they do any other "therapist" as is currently done elsewhere globally. Oral disease prevention through education and skills training for both other healthcare disciplines and patients is essential. Can you advise me how best to convince hospital CEOs and Boards to recognize the evidence and open their minds and doors to this change in our current care delivery system? My alternative practice colleagues and I had begun some grassroots work with individual hospital CEOs and I have begun to broach the subject with my local rural hospital CEO who was a great help during my thesis research on Non-Traumatic Dental Complaint patient Emergency Department utilization. Your work on focus groups and advocacy has inspired me to even come to you with this issue. I hope you can advise me how best I can be a more effect advocate to gather momentum for this greatly needed workforce change which would significantly improve health outcomes and prevent future suffering. Thank you, once again. I hope to hear from you soon.
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    • Developing Strategic and Action Plans
    • Advocating for Change
    		 Sat, 07/26/2014
    How do I start a harm reduction center/syringe exchange program in my city?
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    • Assessing Community Needs and Resources
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    • Developing Strategic and Action Plans
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    		 Thu, 07/17/2014
    I need your help desperately. I am the secretary of my neighborhood association and my leadership has abandoned me to carry it by myself. I am the last remaining board member of the largest neighborhood association in my city. The association has imploded as a result of a councilman who has manipulated board members which led to the founder of the association want to dissolve the association. City by laws do not permit politicians to use neighborhood associations for political purposes, the problem is the councilman does not care about the city charter and is only interested in advancing himself. Tomorrow I will be having an exploratory community meeting where I will create a forum like environment that will allow the people of the community to provide input about their needs and the shape of the association. My other problem is nobody wants to volunteer to be a part of the board. This too I will be addressing at the meeting tomorrow. I need your guidance on how to address all the matters shared, my goal tomorrow is to engage the community in meaningful dialogue that recognizes the importance of their participation while sending a clear message that we will remain independent of political influence. I have told the councilman that we will not be having any speakers, he informed me then he will be there absolutely be there like it or not. I look forward to your advice and guidance.
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    		 Wed, 07/16/2014
    Dear Advisor,
    This is Dr. Manal Bamousa , a female forensic doctor from Saudi Arabia.
    Recently,I got a proposal of making ideal building under name of: family protection centre.
    I need to work on that Golden project by writing every thing related to this project from A-Z.
    I would appreciate your help and suggestions.
    Thank you very much and looking forward to hearing from you.

    Regards,
    Dr.Bamousa
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    • Influencing Policy Development
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    • Implementing a Social Marketing Effort
    • Improving Organizational Management and Development
    		 Sun, 04/20/2014
    We are going to promote health and prevent diseases in the slum areas, in a simple table form, can you send me the operational model we should use and the most effective way to mobilize the community?
    • Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
    • Assessing Community Needs and Resources
    • Analyzing Problems and Goals
    • Developing a Framework or Model of Change
    • Improving Organizational Management and Development
    		 Thu, 04/03/2014

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