9. There is not enough change in the community or system. | Community Tool Box

1. Have we figured out what problems we are trying to address?

• Toolkit: Assessing Community Needs and Resources
• Toolkit: Analyzing Problems and Goals
• Collecting Information About the Problem
• Analyzing Community Problems
• Defining and Analyzing the Problem
• Participatory Approaches to Planning Community Interventions

2. Have we figured out how to address those problems?

• Toolkit: Developing Strategic and Action Plans
• Deciding Where to Start
• Choosing and Adapting Community Interventions
• Strategies for Community Change and Improvement: An Overview
• Generating and Choosing Solutions
• Putting Your Solution Into Practice

3. Do the proposed changes fit what the community needs?

• Developing a Plan for Identifying Local Needs and Resources
• Conducting Concerns Surveys
• Developing Successful Strategies: Planning to Win
• Obtaining Feedback from Constituents: What Changes are Important and Feasible
• Gathering Information: Monitoring Your Progress
• Rating Community Goals

4. Did we have a targeted or focused mission and goals?

• An Overview of Strategic Planning or “VMOSA” (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans)
• Proclaiming Your Dream: Developing Vision and Mission Statements
• Creating Objectives

5. Did we have a clear, agreed upon action plan in place?

• An Overview of Strategic Planning or “VMOSA” (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans)
• Developing Successful Strategies: Planning to Win
• Developing an Action Plan
• Identifying Action Steps in Bringing About Community and System Change

6. Is the organization structured for success?

• Toolkit: Improving Organization Management and Development
• Developing an Organizational Structure for the Initiative

7. Is there an active leadership team in place?

• Toolkit: Building Leadership
• Core Functions in Leadership

8. Is there regular (i.e., at least quarterly) feedback on the rate of community change?

• Gathering Information: Monitoring Your Progress
• Providing Feedback to Improve the Initiative

9. Are there enough well-trained people working to make the change?

• Recruiting and Training Volunteers
• Core Functions in Leadership
• Becoming an Effective Manager

10. Are the strategies and tactics used (e.g., providing information, modifying access) strong enough to change behavior?

• Choosing and Adapting Community Interventions
• Analyzing Community Problems
• Developing Successful Strategies: Planning to Win
• Defining and Analyzing the Problem

11. Are the strategies and tactics used appropriate to the people and context?

• Adapting Community Interventions for Different Cultures and Communities

12. Are the changes reaching the right people, and are they reaching enough of those people?

• Toolkit: Implementing a Social Marketing Effort
• Social Marketing of Successful Components of the Initiative
• Identifying Targets and Agents of Change: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help
• Writing Letters to the Editor
• Gathering Information: Monitoring Your Progress
• Segmenting the Market to Reach the Targeted Population

13. Do we have adequate funding and resources to achieve our goals?

• Toolkit: Applying for Grants
• Toolkit: Sustaining the Work or Initiative
• Getting Grants and Financial Resources
• Writing a Grant
• Managing Finances
• Managing Your Money
• Planning for Long-term Institutionalization
• Strategies for Sustaining the Initiative
• Marketing the Initiative to Secure Financial Support

14. Are we accountable for bringing about positive community change (e.g., does grant renewal depend on a pattern of accomplishment?)?

• Rewarding Accomplishments
• Achieving and Maintaining Quality Performance