Guestbook Entries

I am a MSN student at Northern Arizona University. I will be using the community tool box for projects as they relate to my current classes.

I'm in nurse practitioner school and hoping to serve rural communities by implementing nursing theory and change processes.

I will be use the tool box to help with my assignments and to conduct research on rural communities.

J.D. Arch is a 20 year retired Naval Submariner that is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee N.C. He has experience in managing, securing and penetrating computer networks. He served two separate instructor tours in Kings Bay Georgia and Yokosuka Japan where he taught how to manage, secure and penetrate computer networks. After retirement, he obtained two undergraduate degrees in business management and public relations to move away from the IT world.

He believes that perspective of life, family and culture guides our steps as we travel through life. His ambition is to form a non-profit that will address the need to change this perspective through culture and community. By learning traditional Cherokee gardening, use of plants, dancing, laughing and communicating with the creator, perspectives will change. Then, opportunities that seemed impossible to attain begin to transform into experiences that lead.

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I took a Grant Writing Class from Western Carolina University and this website was a resource listed to help

Currently enrolled for the Child Development, Programs Development and Advocacy for Spring 2020. During the Spring, I will continue with the certification program and hope to have completed by the Fall of 2020. With the hope to reach as many foster youth as an Education Advocate hoping to give them some thing to bring them stability.

I had been on the website before, but since then I lost my computer. I remembered your website and it is going to be a key component to be able to implement future projects. As of right now, I am looking for a way to become an advocate for those who feel they can't or just won't try to gain benefits they have a right to gain access to. Not as a beneficiary, nor a payee, just to be voice they need to speak up for theirs

I'm an East Bay, California resident in service to several food and land justice-oriented groups and communities. I was originally trained as a conservation ecologist but my passion for people and place has led me to develop into my fuller facilitator, organizer, and advocate self, along with the scientist part of me.

I have drawn on multiple components of the Tool Box to develop research/analysis protocols, develop interview questions, and guide project frameworks. The huge difference the Tool Box has helped me with is doing all of that with a solid foundation and consistent orientation in equitable, respectful community participation. So very grateful!

I am a KU grad (’97 Human Dev and Family Life, spec in Behavior Analysis) and just moved to Oregon in June 2019. I previously worked as a volunteer management professional for an environmental nonprofit in Kansas City, Missouri, for more than 10 years. Coming across this gem from my alma mater makes me feel closer to home. :)

I’m in the process of developing a plan to increase neighborhood engagement for a specific Neighborhood Association Committee in Beaverton Oregon. I just came across your Community Toolbox and am looking forward to diving in! Thank you for this valuable resource!

I am a Developmental Service Family Peer Mentor for caregivers of adult children with a developmental disability.

I just came upon it and I found it very informative and it will be a very useful resource.

I am an upcoming humanitarian worker in Nigeria, who is interested in community development. I intend to further my education in risk and disaster management due to my passion for community development.

Not yet but I intend to do that with time. I just started learning and I am enjoying the courses and trainings.

We wish to introduce an organisation named CREATIVE ACTION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (CARD) established in 1987 and working in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states of rural and urban areas with undeveloped community like, DALITHS, TRIBALS, SINGLE WOMEN, YOUNG WIDOWS SMALL FARMERS, LEATHER WORKS. CARD is the non-profit non- governmental organisations (NGO) , is also was formed a wider platform with 1250 small NGOs who are working on various issues and fighting for human and women rights in India. CARD have been completed 30 years services with community and for therefore, we have been organizing a PEOPLES FESTIVAL and special event on fundraising and it has been providing INNOVATIVE WARDS to the legends like you working with various causes at international level.

We are just gone through your website and i felt very much interested to join with you and work with your an ideology. please keep us as your partner member for further skill and training development.

Thanking you
with kind regards,
Nageswara Rao.T
Director,CARD.

I work for a United Nations related research institute on topics related to evaluation and social and solidarity economy.

I have found the logic model provided on the community tool box to be the most clear and complete (yet simple to understand) template available.

I am employed as the shelter manager for our communities crisis center and I just hired my first part time shelter advocate that i will directly be providing supervision to. I have no skills or training and hope to utilize some of your tools.

I am an FNP student looking to connect to those in rural areas to find out about health concerns and ways we can help improve health access

I am a new CRA / Fair Lending Officer currently in training, with 22 years of loan experience.

I am currently new to this site and am hoping to learn how to create an effective needs assessment to determine where Franklin Synergy Bank needs to focus their efforts to comply with CRA requirements.

I am a healthcare professional pursuing advanced education and am currently studying the issues which affect rural populations in regards to healthcare.

I’m a VISTA serving with my local Health Department (Erie, PA) to create a food council for our region. It is a really big job. Initially, a VISTA was supposed to support a full-time coordinator, but our funding fell through and it all became my job. In one year, I had to figure out who the stakeholders were, what they were up to, convince them to work together, create a coalition, support the creation of an organization - leadership, mission, by-laws, operating procedures for the council at large and three working groups, and promote the group within my community and to policy makers, all with minimal professional experience to my name.

The Community Toolbox held my hand throughout my whole VISTA year. I encourage all my members to reference it when they aren't sure of their next steps. The part about developing leadership has been especially helpful because I wouldn’t have considered it on my own. Soon I'll exit service, and my members all seem confident and prepared to take on the next steps without me, which is how a VISTA defines success!

I am a freelancer, a consultant, serving a local Non-Government Organization whose main activities are monitoring and advocacy.

The CTB is outstanding ... I am not Archimedes, but the first time when I was found it I screamed EUREKA ...

Wish all the best for what you have done ... keep going.

iv been working in the community and peace building for 25 years in Belfast and Northern Ireland as well as globally

For now, I just used it to complete a writing project with WGU. I will likely present your website to my CIO and other leaders to see what they think.

I am Professor Emeritus of Osaka Gakuin University. I have been operating "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" as the Editor since 1998. TRIZ is a Methodology for Creative Problem Solving based on systemic thinking and originally developed in Russia since 1940s. It was used in the field of technology at first, but recently in business and social fields as well. Now I am leading WTSP (World TRIZ Sites Project) for building a comprehensive Catalogs of TRIZ-related sites (in a wider sense) in various countries and in the whole world.

During the survey of TRIZ-related sites I have just encountered your Web site, and am much impressed. I would like to include your site as a site worthy to recommend in the whole world, as showing a practical and systematic way of applying creative problem solving methodologies to various social problems.

Tsepo Mosoang is a community activist group member, and a member of Lesotho youth forum

I am a part time professor in the Child and Youth Work program as part of the faculty of social service at University of Florida

It is my first time to jump in here; it sounds interesting so, I want to know if online training can be envisaged here.
Thanks