Guestbook Entries

Submitted:
First Name: Chol Mading
Last Name: Parök
City/Town: Tonj
State/Province:
Country: South Sudan
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
M&E practitioner
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
For Designing programme learning and accountability tools
Submitted:
First Name: Mary
Last Name: Vejnoska
City/Town: Flagstaff
State/Province: AZ
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Using the CTB for school project. Focus on rural community healthcare needs
Submitted:
First Name: GEORGE
Last Name: OYAREH
City/Town: kericho
State/Province: kenya
Country: kenya
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Iam a social worker working within the Tea Plantations towards improving the general welfare and wellbeing of all employees, their Children and other people living within the company Estates.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
It is my first time to here of this tool kit .Am interested in getting all of them to help me improve on my work.
Submitted:
First Name: Lindsey
Last Name:
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Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the coordinator of the Tennessee Tech University Honors Program. I co-lead getting started in civic engagement groups for students interested in engaging in the community.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The Community Tool Box is a treasure. From templates to terminology, students can learn about why engaging the community is important and how to get started. Thank you for the time and work invested in this resource.
Submitted:
First Name: Coby
Last Name: Williams
City/Town: Columbus
State/Province: OH
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Founder and owner of New Reach Community Consulting. New Reach Community Consulting is a minority-owned and purpose-driven small business based in Columbus, OH with a mission to help organizations move the needle on social issues through meaningful engagement.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
As a community engagement practitioner, the Community Tool Box is one of my go-to resources for my own professional development and for the social impact projects I work on.
Submitted:
First Name: Katherine Mahoney
Last Name:
City/Town: Flaggstaff
State/Province: AZ
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How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
We are using the community toolbox to develop a project for a rural community in AZ.
Submitted:
First Name: Jerry
Last Name: Price
City/Town: South Bend
State/Province: INDIANA
Country: UNITED STATES of AMERICA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am planning to build a multipurpose facility at LASALLE PARK a 80.5 acre park.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I am presently reading planning strategies to research planning and development for this project.
Submitted:
First Name: Joyce
Last Name: Murage
City/Town: Thika town
State/Province: Kiambu county
Country: Kenya
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Iam Joyce I work the elderly in our community. Training them on how to be independent financially. Also youths on how start small business and be independent
Submitted:
First Name: Claire
Last Name: Colie
City/Town: Flagstaff
State/Province: AZ
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Nurse Care Manager at NAU Campus Health.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
It's new to me, I am starting to use it for school.
Submitted:
First Name: Nnamdi
Last Name: Okose
City/Town: Abuja
State/Province: FCT
Country: Nigeria
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work for an organization which fights for the enthronement of an egalitarian, peaceful and just society.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Community Tool Box has been a well of so much resources for advocacy. I am currently using Community Tool Box to develope an Advocacy Handbook for my organization.
Submitted:
First Name: Kellye
Last Name: Remshifski
City/Town: Doylestown
State/Province: PA
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the wellness and outreach manager at a community hospital in Doylestown PA.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I just wanted to send a little note saying thank you for putting this together! After graduating from a masters in Health Promotion and moving away from an academic field, I find myself wishing that there were more refreshers to these things. I'm so thankful I found this as I use it whenever we have a big community projects or need to do a needs assessment to just remind myself of the things I've learned. Thank you!!
Submitted:
First Name: AUDREY
Last Name: NYAGO
City/Town: Kampala
State/Province: Kampala
Country: Uganda
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a 20 year old Ugandan girl who is passionate about the well being of the girl child coming from a family of a single mother of two girls and a boy.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I have collected a team that has taught girls how make reusable sanitary towels for the girls to stay in school and communicated about the importance of educating the girl child therefore keeping many of the girls in school.That was before the outbreak of covid 19.This upcoming organisation started with only two girls that I taught who with their help we collected a few passionate others to achieve a common goal.
Submitted:
First Name: Alexander
Last Name: Nayve
City/Town: Magarao
State/Province: Camarines Sur
Country: Philippines
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hi!. I am Alex Nayve. I'm working for Salanga as the focal person for community-led monitoring, evaluation and learning (ColMEL). My primary role is to lead the development of the ColMEL methodology and accompany INGO partners and their local partners to pilot it in 3 countries.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The ColMEL is a component of community-led development (CLD) programming. I really appreciate the Community Tool Box because it provides access to CLD resources in a very organized way. I just love how CTB organized the resources into chapters and sections, plus all the section overviews, examples, tools and ppt. I would love to refer our partners on the ground to the CTB resources when I contribute to their capacity building soon. While I do read about a full chapter on participatory appraisal, design and evaluation in the CTB, I'd like to check whether there are chapters or sections that deal with participatory monitoring especially community-led monitoring. I will be very interested to receive resources on this topic because it is something that we really need. Thank you! Blessings and more power to CTB!
Submitted:
First Name: Eric
Last Name: Saforo
City/Town: Accra
State/Province: Greater Accra
Country: Ghana
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Youth Empowerment Synergy (YES-Ghana) is an ECOSOC-accredited NGO at the forefront of youth development policy, practice, and research in Ghana. For more than 15 years, we provide tailored skills training for youth, leading to improvements in their leadership, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and life planning skills. Through our service delivery, we provide education, skills training, and technical support to thousands of youth and helped them transition to self and wage employment. Our research has contributed to filling the gap in youth data and the evidence base for public policy. And, we continue to use our national appeal and grassroots constituency, through our Voices of Youth Coalition, to advocate and campaign for youth-inclusive policies at all levels.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
YES-Ghana organised an innovative learning experience targeting representatives of youth-led organisations working at the community level to support and initiate especially local efforts at localising the SDGs. Before the learning experience, participants already benefited from an organisational capacity assessment revealing various strengths and weaknesses.

The training contents were tailored to address capacity gaps identified through the OCA exercise, while also providing a firm theoretical and practical foundation on sustainable development. Using the unique approach of the Community Tool Box, the Academy covered areas such as creating and maintaining coalitions and partnerships, assessing community needs and resources, analysing problems and goals, developing a framework or model of change, developing strategic and action plans, building leadership, developing an intervention, advocating for change and influencing policy development. Other areas include evaluating the initiative, implementing a social marketing effort, fundraising, improving organisational management and development, and sustaining initiatives.

The youth leaders from the various organisations were highly impressed with the rich content of the toolkit from the University of Kansas Community Toolbox. They could not hide their appreciation for the opportunity to learn using such a rich resource to improve the capacities of their organisations and how they implement their projects.
Submitted:
First Name: cristen
Last Name: zaleski
City/Town: howell
State/Province: Michigan
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a student. Your tool box is awesome! It is a wealth of information! Thank You!
Submitted:
First Name: An
Last Name: Dinh
City/Town: Ho Chi MInh
State/Province: Binh Thanh
Country: Vietnam
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am working as a facilitator and coordinator at center for service-learning of a local university. I had 5 years experiences in community work.
One of my interestes is searching for new tools and fun educational learning activities for my students. Lack of information is a common issues in Vietnam.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Based on what I provided above, I really just use the information here to better our new generation and this is not for profit purposes.
Submitted:
First Name: Dr. Jennifer
Last Name: Potts
City/Town: Milwaukee
State/Province: WI
Country: us
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the exec. director of a business improvement district. We are in a crime ridden area and I feel as though we are stuck year after year.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I just discovered the Community Tool Box and am looking forward to using it.
Submitted:
First Name: Franklin
Last Name: Perkins
City/Town: Corbin
State/Province: KY
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Executive Director of 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization engaged in the treatment and recovery of those community members suffering from opioid-use-disorder.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Used to develop strategic plan and action plan for grant application work plan.
Submitted:
First Name: Lorenzo
Last Name: Webber
City/Town: Hillside
State/Province: Illinois
Country: United States of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Our mission is centered around ensuring that all youth grow up in a safe, supportive, and thriving community.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
To build a community coalition.
Submitted:
First Name: Lange
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Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a university student seeking to open an organization that informs the marginalized Hispanic population about different health care resources in my local community.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I used the website for a project I was doing in school. We had to write a proposal to a local leader about a problem we wanted to address and I talked about outreach! This website helped me figure out important factors in producing successful outreach strategies. It really helped me write my essay. I plan to use this site for my own future project. Thank you!