Guestbook Entries

Been a teacher for 10 years, and for the last 13 years as school administrator in different capacity, currently, my roles is Federal/Grants Director.

My husband & I pastored for 30 years before his health broke. In our late 60's, we started a public 501(c)(3) charity called Gleaners Dispatch, Inc. eight years ago, to rescue ("glean") excess fresh bread and fresh produce from area from the docks of area wholesale vendors and re-distribute ("dispatch") it free of charge to families in need (single parents, senior citizens, under-employed, etc).

We get no govt funding, and have a crew of 200+ unpaid volunteers that make over 75 gleaning trips with our 3 old trucks and 4 old vans every week. We gave away over $3.5 million wholesale value fresh food to over 220,000 last year - we are ALWAYS looking for ways to raise our operational funding to defray the costs of distribution. We do not charge for food, but we need to learn how to "get the word out of our need" for operational support. I look forward to reading everything you have on your site, and seeing if there is anything we can do to help other groups while learning ourselves.

I'm a retired soldier now working as an educator with the Combined Arms Center's Center for Army Leadership (CAL)

I came across the CTB while I was looking for ways CAL might be able to help or partner with KU. You have a great many useful tools here. Many of them are very similar to tools the Army uses to lead our people and manage our resources. The differences between your approaches and mine are valuable to me in that they broaden my perspective. I think there are opportunities for partnership between CAL and KU in some of the areas addressed in the CTB. I hope we can explore them. Congratulations on a great-looking site! Mark 913 758-3035

I am the Provincial Manager for Health Promotion in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa.

I have just received the e-mail and was amazed at the quality and quantity of infomration available. I will most definately make use of this service in the future.

Architect in South Africa involved with developing Intentional Community /Missionary station in rural areas for previously disadvantaged people who needs poverty alleviation assistance.

I am retired, after working for the City govt for 25 years, in Housing. I am active in my community to make it better, and my Church.

The CTB is a valuable resource in that I obtain excellent information to share with participants in my workshops. THANK YOU!!!

I am involved in grassroots advocacy to improve the lives of persons with developmental disabilities.

The toolbox articles that I have are invaluable. Can the entire set of articles be purchased? I'm not sure what year they were written, but I obtained a copy in 2005 through the Missouri Partners in Policymaking program. Please advise

Full-time KU Administrative Associate, attending graduate school in International Studies, one course per semester

I am looking at it for potential to apply to my MA research. How, for example, in another country, African or Caribbean, its use could be followed.

Need information on building a community health project targeting cardiovacular disease

i am full time worker helping a friend write a grant. i have had grant writing experience in the past but am really rusty..this site has helped us immensely. keep up the good work!!

Nursing student at Cal State Long Beach and plan to specialize in public health and or gerontology

New visitor and excited to find so many resources. Currently doing my public health rotation at Curtis Tucker Health Center. Utilizing this site for "tools," suggestions, and guidelines for coalition buiding, collaboration, partnering/networking, and community building for young parents in SPA 8. Thank you!

Public Policy Director for ContactLifeline's program the Sexual Assault Network of DE

I am an Organizational Development Consultant for Habitat for Humanity International.

I am in the process of developing a literature toolkit for coalition building. This is a wonderful site that provides very detailed information.

I am charged with creating a primary prevention program for rape and child sexual abuse for Henderson County, NC.

To educate myself on community assessment techniques and "templates" for running focus groups and interpreting the information.

I am a graduate student and a 20 year employee of Jefferson County Dept. of Health, in the Division of Community Health. At UAB School of Public Health my area of interest is Health Behavior and Community Systems Building. For years I have worked under the direction of others to deliver behaviorial-based health promotion programs to the community. Though I did not have a masters degree,I was up-to-date, well read and attended every workshop and seminar I could find about community-based interventions. Finally, at age 57, I decided to attend graduate school at UABSOPH. I wanted to connect theory to the interventions we were trying to implement at the Department of Health. For years I've wondered, what is the missing component, why is it that nothing really works for any length of time? Contrary to everything that had been said in the Department; I am learning that the missing component is "TRUE" community involvement, throughout every phase of an interventions. From Assessment - Evaluation

I will use the CTB at work as a resource in implementation of the MAPP public health assessment process and as a resource for assignments in school. Greater assessibility adds value.

Am a community development planner with a focus on planning and environmental law

Am working with a newly formed urban community based organization as an advisor in developing a strategic development plan

I am the Director of a not-for profit organisation called Youth With A Global Vision based in London.

I am using the CTB to do my startegic planning and I am finding it very useful. May be choosing some examples from other locations in addition to what they have can help say developing countries or other developing communities around the globe. On the whole it is an excellent site for me.