Guestbook Entries

I worked as a humanitarian aid worked with Pakistan Red Crescent Society, KP Branch since 1993. I have experience about humanitarian emergency work e.g. logistics support, warehouse management, administration, project management, community mobilization etc.

I go though the Community Tool Box and I learn more about the new approaches, procedure and processes about the how to enhance the community strengthen in a such a way. This side more beneficial not only for me but also benefited to those who interested to mobilize the community and uplift the vulnerable societies at the right time with the knowledge, skill and experience. So the knowledge they will get from this web page as per their capacities.

I am senior public health professional working as a manager in Zonal health office sub office in Oromiya Regional Health Bureau, as government employee coordinating Health care service provision in nearly 500 community Health facilities for over two million populations .

Community tool box is all in one package serve a lot for professional manager and leader ship development as a reference in addressing community health problems and Health development.

Hi. I am a part time professor in the Child and Youth Work program as part of the faculty of social service at Georgian college. I recently retired after 40 years as an educator and social worker in the Jewish Community Field. I have an Ed.D., M.S.W. and Bs. in Ed.

I am teaching two courses in Community Development this Winter term and the materials are great for use in my classes. I will use some of the power points, the lists and the topics to make the subject come to life for my third year students before they go out in the field.
I have scanned many of the units, and think they are very well put together.

- Safety & Health Mgt

Very Helpful

I am a professional meeting facilitator with a consulting practice focused on research, strategy, and innovation mostly for Fortune 500 clients, but also for some smaller, local organizations.

I stumbled over Chapter 16 (your bits on facilitation) and thought it was an excellent summary/overview/collection on the topic. Was impressed enough to fill out this form and network with you folks.

I have been working with UN agencies, specifically WFP and UNICEF as a programme officer for many years. Now I have retired. I want to remain active. So now I am a programme manager for a local NGO.

We are discussing about a community-based development programme in favour of 700 000 people, living in the Shabunda District, in the South Kivu Province. These people are sevelrely affected with violence from armed groups since 1996, the territory they live in is enclaved, with no possibility to access market, to get manufactured products... Our NGO is deeply concerned by agricultural recoveru and rehabilitation.

Hi,
I'm a field worker recording 16 years of field experience in social work. Actually I'm working as M&E assistant in an education project.

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

I stumbled upon your Community Tool Box and couldn't believe my eyes at the wealth of information that your organization has so wonderfully shared with people seeking to work in the many aspects of community and social awareness. It has been nothing short of a blessing. I am the creator of an online group whose purpose is to facilitate raw, open, honest discussion about race, racism and classism in America by embracing thought diversity while challenging ingrained fears and stereotypes in seeking answers to breaking down strongholds and barriers about race, racism, and classism as the elephant in the room. Our communities are suffering because WE refuse to even talk about the very problems that are the root and core.
THANK YOU SOOO VERY MUCH!!!!

As a tool for modules, components and general ideas to build upon for teaching and structuring actions.

Hello I am a trainer in Youth work , Community Services and Community Development in the South Pacific . Iam based in Port Vila and deliver training to students from all over the Pacific

As part of my work i need to ensure that my research is current and informative and the community toolbox provides a wealth of information to support my students learning thank you

AM TANZANIAN, AGED 27. I'm a student of The University of Dodoma(UDOM), studying bachelor of project planning management and community development(2nd year)

this moment, its for learning purposes

I am an international development intern in Masaka, Uganda and I have found your guide amazingly helpful in the work that I have been doing! Thank you for such a useful resource!

Graduate student of a public administration program in San Francisco.

I just discovered and have been browsing this toolbox today, but I felt compelled to say thank you for this amazing resource. I will give more feedback soon!

Owner and founder of Audio Jam Inc. and its other entities.

I like to learn new leadership techniques that would help me run a more efficient and effective business.

I'm a med-school student from Guatemala City currently on my last year.

Thank you so much for this Tool Box! We are currently working on a needs assessment survey for a community in the outskirts of the city and this site has been by far the most helpful source of information.

My name is Garba Abdul, and I am 40 years old and from Nigeria. I have had over 5 years of experience working as Administrative Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Database Administrator, Data Analyst, Documentation Officer and Assistant Programme Officer with Factor Consulting Group, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative and lately Platinum x Art Media Limited in Abuja since 2008. I currently applied for an advertised position with DFID for the Post of a Programme Officer and luckily for me I bumped across your site, which I found very inspiring and educative. I am so excited to see a platform such as the Community Tool Box that would help me in developing my capacity in Programmatic areas such as project cycle management, monitoring and evaluation, procedural and financial management, and corporate responsibility, which are my area of interests.

Today being my first day on the Community Tool Box site, I sincerely believe it's going to be a great experience of added value to my knowledge and ability to work more effectively in my chosen field of Non-Profit. I also hope to learn from your training programmes and information on projects and community support, which will in turn help me to build my capacity towards achieving my organization goals and objective of touching the lives of the people in my immediate community and beyond. Thank you.

I have many years experience volunteering with nonprofit organizations such as Leadership African, BBBS of Greater KC, Great Pyrenees Rescue, Sweet Pea Foundation and St. Bernard Rescue. I am in the middle of the MPA program through Park University and in the process of adopting a child. My desire is to be the Executive Director of a nonprofit organization that assists those that are disenfranchised.

I am learning more about being employed by a NPO vs. strictly volunteering.

I recently attended training to be an adult literacy tutor. I also want to start a small literacy workshop at our Clubhouse, which is a psycho-social rehabilitation program for adults struggling with mental illness.

I am reading information on peer education and adult literacy programs.

We initiated and managed a Neighbourhood watch type organisation. The community realised that the matter of security is much bigger than the speedy responds to crime in general (ADT) and that the community required a wholistic approach to a local organisation combining job creation, housing, sanitation/health, education and safety. We created the HUB which combined all aspects and are in search for sustainability. Taxing the community outright was not an option but shifting the home and business security spend proved easier, however.... we found that as the safety improved, community members reduced their contributions to the point where the organisation had to put on hold. It is a catch 22. Increase crime in recent times saw a considerable interest in members organising new structures dealing with the matters of security. It is a crying shame to see how the entire cycle is restarted, loosing all value created before.

Using the model to define a business case for a telecommunication company, local business, security service providers, local government (Education, Health and Safety) and finally... the community.

I am a community development worker with 32 years experience firstly as a volunteer and then as a professional. I come from Northern Ireland and utilised community development principle and practices as a change management process to further develop the evolving peace as a community emerging from violent conflict and to address the multiple deprivations that many of the communities suffered in Northern Ireland
I have now moved to Australia and am utilising the same principles and practices to engage the Aboriginal communities to build capacity and help reconcile with the more modern population.
I have accessed Community Toolbox now for more years than I can remember, it has been a constant resource and guide for me.

I would access the Tool Box to check if I am on the right track and use it as a check list for project management process and project specification. I also wanted to look at some templates for report writing.
Over the years I have dipped into the Tool Box just to browse and give me ideas about my ideas for creating certain dynamic projects that would help me move a situation on when needed.
Sometimes I assessed it to learn and read up on the many aspects of CD.