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First Name: Ken
Last Name: Kuhn
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Middle School Teacher (Grade 8) Active in Westwood Plateau Community Organization Active in planning skiing, golf, fitness track
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First Name: Keisha
Last Name: Tyler
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I am a community organizer working around alcohol related issues in Hayward, CA.
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First Name: Glory
Last Name: Udoh
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I am promoting Healthy Community concept in our community schools, churches, and businesses. I need ideas on actvities that can captivate a broad interest of all people.
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First Name: Howard
Last Name: anne
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we are an E.U. pilot programme looking to tackle educational disadvantage. We have developed alternative educationand training programmes for early school leavers and young mothers. we work out of a youth and community and youth work model.
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First Name: Dorothy
Last Name: Hulsey
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I am a high school teacher of social studies at Tulia High School, and I am a firm believer in community service for myself and my children. I could not get the request for updates to take my email address. Please send me updates if possible through email. Thank you Dorothy Hulsey
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First Name: Carol
Last Name: Rooney
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We are a CHDO
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First Name: Peter
Last Name: McNeur
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Community Education Organiser for Wairarapa Rural Education Activities Programme in New Zealand
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First Name: MARIO
Last Name: MUNOZ
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Iam a person that like to get involve into any community programs
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First Name: Karen
Last Name: Lyman
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Teacher, public schools in Maine
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First Name: Meredith & Bruce
Last Name: Moore & Chamberlin
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We are a partnership that specializes in working with community groups and the disempowered to achieve community health development. We assist with needs assessment, planning, negotiation and evaluation.
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First Name: Tracey
Last Name: Barrington
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Hi, this is a terrific site. Is there any way to order the different manuals that you have on capacity building?
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First Name: Gail
Last Name: Garvin
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I am a Health Educator Consultant working at the Orange County Health Department which is a division of the Florida Department of Health.
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First Name: Nancy
Last Name: Williams
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I attended the presentation at CDC on April 14th. There are many resources that don't have links, and several pages that don't work. I am the Chief Information Officer for the Santa Fe Service Unit. I will be sharing this page with our Public Health Nursing Staff and Preventive Health Program.
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First Name: Craig Anthony
Last Name: Thomas
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Good job with Web site. Invaluable resource for nonprofit organizations and other community-building enterprises. Since its inception, I have served as volunteer coordinator for Community Outreach for the electronic network for Kalamazoo County. We call it the Greater Kalamazoo TeleCITY USA. TeleCITY's Community Outreach was named one of six finalists in the third annual Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards in the Public Access category. Check us out at <www.telecity.org> and let me know what you think about our Web-based enterprise.
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First Name: Joanne
Last Name: Burlison
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Hello, I am interested in the concept of community, how it seems lost in modern times and how we can retrieve it. I am looking for articles and ideas from others on this topic so I can refine my ideas and decide what I want to do to actively initiate change.
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First Name: Sharon
Last Name: Reid
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I work as a policy analyst for the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg in Canada. The Planning Council is involved in a number of projects that involve using an asset-based community development approach, especially as it relates to community health. Using population/health promotion ideas, we try to involve communities and neighbourhoods in a process that builds on community capacities. Your site has alot of very valuable information that we will access and we will encourage others to benefit from all of your hard work. Thanks very much for a great site!
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First Name: Dorothy
Last Name: Bauer
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Director of Coldspring Area Public Library in Coldspring, Texas. We are raising funds to build a new library building.
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First Name: Josep-M.
Last Name: Portella
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High school English teacher in a town twenty-five miles away from Barcelona, Spain
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First Name: Sharon i.
Last Name: Rogers
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Interested in information on recent/upcoming information
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First Name: Terry
Last Name: Spencer
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I am chairman of our local tenants association and I also chair the federation of tenants associations. Your web pages are an excellent source of information for community groups and well worth a visit. I am sure I will be a regular visitor. Good luck and best wishes.
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First Name: retta
Last Name: kelley
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Am a life long journalist and newspaper manager, currently working as the community development director at the Austin American Statesman in Austin. We are in the midst of refining what we do with our philanthropic efforts through the newspaper. I am looking for some training that will help me in facilitating community groups as a convenor, and in learning how to assess outcomes.
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First Name: Cullen
Last Name: Hayashida
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I am part of the Pew Charitable Trust Initiative known as the Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative involving 10 mid-sized cities in the US. I am with the Honolulu group; we are three classes - one per year for 3 years. Our principal sponsor was the Hawaii Community Foundation with the support of 16 other local non-profit organizations. I appreciate what you have done and look forward to visiting your site often. Presently, we are working on an Association of Community Association in keeping with a suggestion made by John McKnight in his book, the Careless Society.
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First Name: wilton
Last Name: kennedy
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I'm a P.A. in migrant/community health. I am intrested in finding out about community partnerships with Hispanics and substance abuse.
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First Name: Bert
Last Name: Stauff
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My computer system is Windows 98 Gateway. I am anexperienced RN in the third world. I have done multiple short term med. trips. I now am a nursing student at Bethel College in St. Paul MN getting another degree in nursing. I am very interested in short term missions and am doing a research paper on how nurses can effect short term missions especially in the area of discharge teaching in relationship to medicines given out at clinics. Do you have any specific research or other material about that? I find you web site to be an answer to prayer. I have been unable to find really good research articles on nurses and short term medical missions. God Bless Bert Stauff 3755 Lakeland Ave. N Robbinsdale MN 55422
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First Name: Andrew
Last Name: Winters
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Hello Steve: I am presently managing the Diabetes Today National Training Center project, based at R.O.W. Sciences in Rockville, MD. We are funded with a five year grant from the CDC Division of Diabetes Translation. We will be training state Diabetes Control Programs and their partners in community organization and diabetes control and prevention. We are wondering about how we can collaborate with the Community Tool Box and possibly incorporate it into the training we will be doing starting later this year. Please call or e-mail me with your suggestions. I am very curious to know what you have done that might be similar to our efforts and I am very willing to collaborate with you. My work phone is 301-294-5657. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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First Name: Jeff
Last Name: Bauer
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I am a health futurist and medical economist, currently writing a book on telemedicine. I am planning to include a brief description of The Community Toolbox as a sidebar.
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First Name: Jane
Last Name: Gough
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I work with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools as a Subject Area Coordinator in the Department of Vocational, Adult and Community Education, serving as a central office support person for Family and Consumer Sciences, Health Science and Technology, and Tech Prep/Applied Academics. In the Family and Consumer Sciences area, I work with high school child care occupational programs which provide infant/toddler day care for teen parents and community parents who are enrolled in our educational programs in high school or adult education. Our day care centers are supported by Family Resource Centers and all four of these centers are in large part grant-funded. I am always looking for new "community solutions/tools" and your website interested me very much. I heard about your site through being the Tennessee contact person for the AAFCS Early Childhood Initiative. In preparation for our TAFCS Annual Conference next week, I am surfing all sites listed in the Monthly Memo for the Early Childhood Initiative. This may be more than you want to know about me and our interests; but thanks for being among those with children's interests at heart! Jane Gough, CFCS TAFCS VP Cooperative Relations and Chair, TN Early Childhood Initiative
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First Name: Amy
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I work in a hospital and am the Director of Community Health. We have some innovative programs going here in Denver and I'm interested in learning more about what others are doing.
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First Name: Jeff
Last Name: Paddock
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MSW, KU, 1977; PhD, U of Tenn, 1995; Lt Col USAF; currently engaged in establishing healthy communities initiatives at 80 USAF bases around the globe; particularly interested in success stories (large and small), lessons learned, and outcome evaluation (for local community members use -- not forr researchers - - although there are opportunities there too). Great site; good rference materials.
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First Name: Linda Jo
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I have an eclectic background in practice/policy/research in moving forward community prevention/devleopment agenda. I previously served as the director of prevention for a state health department and now am setting up a national program office for a new RWJ funded initiative that will support community coalitions addressing asthma.
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First Name: Michael
Last Name: Kreek
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I run a company called Vernacular Technology and Techniques and I am E.D. of a non-profit called The Institute for Vernacular Philosophy.
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First Name: Dee
Last Name: Allinson
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Trying to raise funds for a mentoring program for youth to prevent substance abuse and other poor choices youth might make.
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First Name: Marybeth
Last Name: Curtis
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I am a Registered Nurse (B.S.N.) and Coordinator for the Health Learning Resource Center at Westark College in Fort Smith, Arkansas. We are currently in the early planning stages for our new 6 million dollar Health Careers Center. Your web site is an invaluable resource. Thank goodness I have found you!
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First Name: mary
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student studying community welfare
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First Name: Laura
Last Name: Young
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I'm a student about to graduate from the Rollins School of Public Health.
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First Name: angela
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This is a wonderful site. I work for the Community Connector http://www.si.umich.edu/community We added your Grantwriting Guide to our funding resources page. Thanks!
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I am teaching a class on community nutrition which includes grantwriting. I am currently planning to write a grant for a food pantry.
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First Name: Bruce
Last Name: Leonard
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I'm a physical activity interventionist (Health Educator) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity. I'm interested in population based behavior change interventions.
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First Name: Cheryl
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Taking a class on community assessment at the University of New Mexico's MPH program
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First Name: Ahmad
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I'm a director of Indonesian Cooperative Shelter Association (ASPEK). ASPEK's members are community based organizations.
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I'm browsing the web to see what new communitiy tools that Kansas is working on today. I'm part of the Missouri Department of Health's Community Health Assistance Resource Team. We are always lookin for new ideas. What do you think about the new Dialogue Guide from the Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities?
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All I can say is! Excellent, Excellent, Excellent. We are a Not for Profit Organization located in southeastern Arizona. Our facility is a residential care facility for teens, pregnant and unmarried. The information you provided is a wealth of knowledge and was worth all the time researching. May you continually be blessed and have the success of all the best in your endeavors.
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Director of Vashon Island Food Bank. Currently working with other island non-profits to bring dental care to low income/uninsured individuals. Put me on mailing list please Please put me on mailing list for newsletter. Thanks
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First Name: Kay
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I am applying for the job of Medical Coordinator for Onslow Community Ministries...direct medical and dental clinics.
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First Name: MaLisa
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I work as a HHA while going to school. I am planning to apply for the PA program at WSU next year.
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First Name: Ruth
Last Name: Stern
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Worked as a Healthy Cities (WHO Euro designated project - Camden) coordinator in the UK for 8 years, now doing a DrPH with my thesis topic on community participation in Healthy Cities projects. Just at the literature search level now. Your tool box will be fantastically useful.
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First Name: Skip
Last Name: Moon
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I supervise Neighborhood Preservation for the City of Overland Park, Kansas. Prior work included 5 years with a Community Development Corporation in Kansas City, MO as the staff planner / project manager. I am constantly looking for sources of community building / development / networking ideas, activities and projects.
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First Name: Galen
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Community Health Planner and Evaluator
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I am a Family and Consumer Science teacher who is very interested in Brain research of the young child. I feel we need to be doing more in our communities for the young child and their parents so they will be ready for learning. Prenatal care and early child development is a preventive measure to many of the social, emotional, and cognitive development of a child later in life. I am interested in grants which would be available to our communities for a early childhood project.
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First Name: Laurie
Last Name: Dewey
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I am a special education teacher who is planning an alternative classroom for high school students with disabilities and substance abuse issues.
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