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I am interested in starting an organization in my town to provide community members, especially families, outreach opportunities, as well as cultural education seminars/workshops for children roughly 4-10yrs old.
I covet any suggestions, feedback, direction that could come my way regarding this endeavor. I am headed to look through your toolkits now and over the weekend will be working on firming up the mission/vision of the organization and hopefully drawing a crystal clear line showing how cultural awareness/understanding goes hand in hand with community service. Something like if people know more about each other, they feel more connected and are more willing to give...
I live in a VERY affluent community, very white, very much lacking diversity and community service and I would like to see these two things grow and thrive here and need as much help as I can get building a case, finding funding, connecting community service and cultural education, etc....
So I am off to read everything I can now on your website and if it works for someone to call me I would be ever so grateful.
Thank you!!
Jocelyn
978-239-5390 |
- Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
- Developing a Framework or Model of Change
- Developing Strategic and Action Plans
- Increasing Participation and Membership
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Vie, 09/26/2014 |
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a builder is taking up a park in our area and planning to build a shopping complex . please suggest some ways to stop this ?
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- Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
- Developing Strategic and Action Plans
- Increasing Participation and Membership
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Jue, 09/25/2014 |
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There is a new website call "Nextdoor," one of our neighbors has started the site. I see this as a wonderful opportunity for community member to become actively involved, aware of what their local elected official are doing, crime in the area and so much more. However, with all of this potential, there is a certain City Council member, discouraging political, religion and sexual content. I can agree with restricting religious and sexual content, but politics? Ours is a very poor city, with very little commerce or growth. I believe some of this has to do with poor city management. Do you have any ideas about how I might gently persuade them to understand that we as a collective group would greatly benefit by being more informed about our cities politics? Our newspaper is extremely bias.
You are obviously far more educated than I am, if you have a persuasive research doc that would explain this, that might help too.
Thanks for being there, and Thanks for the website.
Shelley |
- Advocating for Change
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Mar, 09/23/2014 |
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I am a facilitator for a job seekers support group. Have similar others used this site and if so how was it used? |
Developing an Intervention |
Dom, 09/21/2014 |
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Greetings .kudos to your information on this site. Kindly assist me to develop a questionnaire on the implementation of health policy in nigeria; the issues and prospects. |
Assessing Community Needs and Resources |
Sáb, 09/20/2014 |
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Hello, My name is Kami and i just wanted to know what i should be doing to start my own youth project/organization in my surrounding so that i can help the community with that. Thanks ! |
- Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
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Mié, 09/17/2014 |
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I need help writing a plan for elderly, disabled and home bound citizens for voting. I have authored 3 articles, handouts published by Democracy NC, talked with residents and administrators, social workers and activity directors and divided 108 facilities into 4 groups. I knew what I want to do long term with civic involvement. I organize residents. I am making 108 notebooks with all candidate info cross indexed by each type of race. These will be taken to all facilities and community centers. I need to propose reason for asking for funding for magnifying sheets - one for each notebook and start on power point. I freeze up when writing a mission statement and so on. Are you able to help me get started? |
Writing a Grant Application for Funding |
Lun, 09/15/2014 |
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hello I am studying the advanced diploma of disability and I am really struggling to do a question which is about identifying an issue of concern in the disability sector and then I need to research it develop an action plan and then also implement my action plan. My topic was going to be something like mis match of residents together. What is the criteria for this. |
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
- Analyzing Problems and Goals
- Developing a Framework or Model of Change
- Developing Strategic and Action Plans
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Dom, 09/14/2014 |
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Sir/Madam,I am a teacher and professional counselor who lives in a community with a high illiteracy rate and yet many of the children do not attend school. It is my desire to establish a Community Counseling Center to help the people in my community. But my resources are limited. What should I do? I am a Ghanaian. |
- Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
- Analyzing Problems and Goals
- Developing Strategic and Action Plans
- Increasing Participation and Membership
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Vie, 09/12/2014 |
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Hello, I am working on a brief on the topic of nonprofits communicating data to the public. In my outline I have three audiences: 1. peers, to sharing program and demographic data to strengthen the field; 2. Funders and policy makers, to change the operating environment; and 3. clients/community, for dual-directional evaluation and to empower them to take informed action of their own and to help explain nuances in program data. For my brief, I am wanting to write three case studies that describe a nonprofit's experience with each external communication method (one nonprofit for each topic). Do you have any ideas of nonprofits who have tried, or been successful at communicating back to their clients? For example, data walks, or community meetings where service providers provider an opportunity to weigh in on what was collected.
Thanks.
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Vie, 09/12/2014 |
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I need help with writing a grant for my organization. Where do we start. |
Writing a Grant Application for Funding |
Vie, 09/12/2014 |
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In an organization, why develop training plan? |
Improving Organizational Management and Development |
Jue, 09/11/2014 |
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Hello,
My name is Kaitlyn Dixon and I am a Community health Education Intern with UAB Health Smart. UAB Health Smart works with minority health disparities and offers free of charge health screenings, nutrition consultations, and meetings with an exercise physiologist. We seek to educate the community and to offer preventative care that can reduce instances of disease as well as reduce health care costs for our clients.
One of our current efforts is to find new health education materials to offer to our clients regarding how to care for themselves before health issues even happen and to help them learn to manage disease once it has set in. We were wondering if you either had any free resources we could disperse or knew of any reliable health organizations that could offer such information for our clients.
Thank you for your time.
Kaitlyn Dixon
UAB Health Smart Community Health Intern |
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Jue, 09/11/2014 |
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Good afternoon!
My name is Steven Charles and I work for the New York State Independent Living Council in Albany, NY. We are launching a new program that will be heavily reliant on social marketing and wondered if you could help us answer some questions based on your past experiences with social marketing campaigns.
Our program’s goal is to reach out to the 1,600,000 adults with disabilities in the State of New York. We are aiming to engage roughly 1% of this target population each year over a ten-year period to form a solid membership base of individuals who will be committed to advocacy efforts for the disabled community. Based on the figure stated above, we hope to engage 1,600 new members each year, and after ten years, a cumulative membership of 16,000.
We were just curious to know, based on your past experience with social marketing campaigns and advocacy efforts, if this seems like a reasonable goal, both for the first year and over the ten-year period. What sorts of change might we expect to see in our numbers from year to year? |
Implementing a Social Marketing Effort |
Mar, 09/09/2014 |
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When you might not want to apply for nonprofit and tax-exempt status How do you show proof for funders and others who might require proof of your exempt status. |
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Lun, 09/08/2014 |
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I'm having trouble navigating the web page. I'm trying to find info regarding different models.
*Epidemiological Model
*Public Health Model
*Social Model
*Asset Model
I admit I'm still overwhelmed with all the info, and haven't quite put all the pieces together at this time. Thanks for your help.
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Developing a Framework or Model of Change |
Vie, 09/05/2014 |
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Hello,
I'm writing for information regarding most effective approach to getting a public school bus transportation policy changed. Effective August 2014, the Seminole Public School System in Florida instituted a policy which makes students residing within 2 miles of the school ineligible for bus transportation. We are one of the families impacted and I'd like to know what can be done to change the policy.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Kindly,
Marisol Martinez |
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
- Developing a Framework or Model of Change
- Developing Strategic and Action Plans
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Jue, 09/04/2014 |
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Hi,
I was wondering if you were able to help me find organizations that allow me to help build self-sustaining communities. By this, I want to help build gardens for food, educate others on how to be involved, advise people that are struggling, and possibly gather data on practices to determine which ones are found to be most favorable in different climates. Any information that can allow me to apply even for an internship would be much appreciated. Thank you. |
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Mié, 08/27/2014 |
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i work for a project that focuses on maternal, newborn and child health. the project ends in dec 2014, i would like to seek advice on how i can write a proposal for scaling up the project to other areas that were not included in the initial phase. what resources are there on this website that can help me to achieve this goal |
- Implementing a Social Marketing Effort
- Writing a Grant Application for Funding
- Sustaining the Work or Initiative
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Mié, 08/27/2014 |
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Hello!
I am an AmeriCorps VISTA service member working to "assess effectiveness of current food policy council mission, goals, and processes." I am to develop a tool to make the assessment. I feel that assessing the effectiveness of a council could be similar to assessing the effectiveness of a program, but it is also a little bit different. I am having trouble finding a set of best practices or tools that one can use specifically for evaluating councils or food policy councils. I found in the document Food Policy Councils: Lessons Learned that most food policy councils have not conducted self assessments. I am finding it difficult to gather resources for this. Do you have any recommendations? Thank you! |
Evaluating the Initiative |
Mar, 08/26/2014 |
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I work at a large local health department. We are interested in your curriculum on Cultural Competency. Do you provide training using that curriculum or can we use the curriculum in our organization? |
Enhancing Cultural Competence |
Mar, 08/19/2014 |
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I think the members of my non- profit organization need training in how to ask people to join our organization. The members tend to shy away from inviting people. I think they fear rejection. Any suggestions? |
Increasing Participation and Membership |
Mar, 08/19/2014 |
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I recently found out that I received credit for Math 115. At orientation I was told that someone would contact me to change my schedule to the next math class in my major (Finance). I was wondering what to do because I do not want or need to take Calculus again but I would like to keep my course load at 15 hours and it is recommended that I take all of my math classes consecutively until they are all completed. |
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Dom, 08/17/2014 |
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I'm disabled by Lymes disease, fibromyaligia, chronic pheriphial neuro apathy, and more. I lost my daughter last year. Her children where staying with my sister. My sister claimed she couldn't afford to feed them and needed help, would i move in. So i did. She moved her daughter in with her boyfriend and three children. She moved my things into her garage. But, she kept my things she wanted. She won't allow me to see my grandchildren. Their father has custody and gets money from the state. But he hasn't raised them for five years. What can I do? I've already lost my daughter and it's bad enough she is stealing from me again. I need help Please.
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Sáb, 08/16/2014 |
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We a new club (California Scholarship Federation/CSF) on campus that will be providing peer mentor tutoring in our library at San Lorenzo High School. We are looking to get certified or get help in ensuring our high school mentors are efficient and professional in helping the students learn effectively. Any help you can offer would be appreciated!! |
Building Leadership |
Vie, 08/15/2014 |
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I write from nairobi Kenya. My concern is with the encroachment of developers into Nairobi (Kariokor) War Cemetery. This is a Second World War, now closed facility.
Kindly advice us on how to go about it wadding off land speculators as we endevour to guard this historic site. |
- Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
- Increasing Participation and Membership
- Advocating for Change
- Influencing Policy Development
- Implementing a Social Marketing Effort
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