Guestbook entries

I work for HUD in the Tulsa Field Office. I am a sociologist.

We are embarking on a 2-year project in a small city nearby. I've been aware of the Toolbox for years and believe it is a good tool to share.

I am the Director of the Promise Community initiative for the state of Vermont. Promise Communities are place based initiatives for communities in rural VT, funded through the Race to the Top- Early Learning Challenge grant.

I just found this resource and it is just great to see such a wealth of information that supports the work we are doing in a great easy to use format. We have been doing this work and pulling from a variety of resources yet this is the most comprehensive and easy to use. We will be looking at it more to see how it can support our work as we move forward. We are less than a year into our community work. Thank you.

I was told about this site as a possible resource to help further my non-profit organization I am in the process of organizing.

I am new to the CTB and not very familiar with everything available to me at this moment.

I am a retired RN, FNP with a DrPH in Maternal & Child Health doing volunteer humanitarian development work in education and women's development in South Sudan where I have a project educating over 400 adult women and am starting a community based school for children where I expect attendance around 700 in 2016.

I've just located this site and think there is considerable potential for use in my work in South Sudan.

I am a mid-level dental hygienist working on my masters in public health.

Serving those with low or no access to oral health care due to age, disability, area, and/or low socioeconomic status. Also an advocate against domestic violence

Chief executive (general manager) of a small rural local government. I lead a small administration and works crew that delivers services to a town and rural area that relies on sheep and wheat economically. We need more as we are ageing, shrinking in numbers and have low incomes and low property values. I am a CPA management accountant with MBA; professionally I am new to local government with past work in postal services (retail, finance), managing a training school and consulting to business. I am 54 and like to cycle early in the morning and love life.

I am searching for tools to energise, motivate, connect my community - to other, like minded communities and search for alternatives to the way things have always been done.

I am a community volunteer worker. I have been working for fifteen years. In the past four years I have been helping the rural communities to establish community businesses on cooperative basis. Just recently stumbled on your site and appreciate all the community tools required. Thankyou

Just started studying the whole tool box.

Community Health Worker, HIV Tester, Health Information Management, I do a little bit of everything in our office.

To help with some grant writing.

Student

Information tool.

I work for a nonprofit and coordinate state recognition programs on character and ethics

The chapter on ethical leadership was very helpful. We'd like to reference the definition of ethical leadership on our website. Please advise as to proper citation. Thank you

I am an experienced community volunteer and leader with an undergraduate degree in Fine Art from Louisiana State University. I am passionate about connecting the youth of our rural community with the visual art world in conjunction with exploring, understanding and developing the individual's natural leadership style and creative problem solving skills so that they may direct their future career path and contribute to the growth and development of our local community and education system.

I am using the Comminty Tool Box as a current resource guide to better ensure all aspects of developing a long-term, sustainable action plan are utilized.

Independent Monitoring&Evaluation Accountability and Learning Expert, working in Uganda.
10yrs in NGO work at programming level.

It facilitated my planning for organisation . Thanks great tool

I'm a manager of an orphnage

I'm using it to find volunteers, hmanitarians for long term work with my orphanage named FOVA-TOGO

Business Development Manager with Falcon Design Consultants, a Civil Engineering company with experience in engineering, land planning, surveying, and construction management.

First look, interested in connecting with projects that utilize our services to remedy a solution for an organization.

My name is Oksie. I am 31 and and married with 2 children. I graduated from University of Papua New Guinea with a Bachelors Degree in Social Works in 2010. I have worked with couple of NGOs, the current being Care International in PNG. I have just established a community based organisation (Agarabi Community Development Agency) with the vision to see a poverty free community and where everyone is empowered.

The organisation is still in its infancy and I am very pleased that the Community Tool Box is very useful as it helps me almost everything I need to know about community development and how to manage a CBO with some experiences that I have gained while working other international NGOs. I can confidently say that Community Tool Box is doing so much by providing relevant and quality information available to assist people and organisations who have dreams to develop their communities.

i am a passionate youth who hate to see people struggling to make it for themselves, especially young people i believe that we are gifted in various ways and some of us are not able to see our potential and with the help of others we can realize our true potential.

i am using the toolbox to equip myself with skills that can help make the organisation be a success.

i am a student studying Public Health and i am from Papua New Guinea.

I am using the site for my studies and it is very helpful and i will utilise it afterwards.

thank you.

I'm a 60 years of age and for the past 5 years I've been gaining the knowledge and qualification to work with people of all ages within my community who suffer from alcohol and drug misuse.
I'm a humanitarian a feminist and I believe that through education people from different cultures can learn how to live together in peace.

I've not tried using the community tool box as yet however, I shall be looking into within the next few hours. I might need some help.

I am an Mphil Student from the University For Development Studies, Ghana studying Community Health and Development.

The community tool Box has help me in my work in the community. I work for NGO's in the Area of data collection and analysis. The tool box has help me in doing proper community entry and community resource identification.

I am an outreach specialist in region 5 for a program implemented by the Bureau of Family Health called Nurse-Family Partnership. It's a community health program for first time moms. We have registered nurses who are partnered with these moms and they perform home visits from early in pregnancy until the child reaches 2 years old.

I'm just learning about Community Tool Box.

I am an African, specifically Liberian. I presently work as a career Diplomat in my country's Foreign Service. Beside my official duties as a Foreign Service officer of Liberia, I have been engaged in several volunteer services in my country as well as in the African Region.
While I was in Liberia, I founded the Liberia chapter of the Internet society, an organization that advocate and promote the opened Internet and access for all. I serve as its first President. I also work as a volunteer staff with the Liberia chamber of Commerce, where I was appointed as Director of Trade and Industry.
I have decided to connect with your platform to gain further idea in inspiring volunteerism in my country.

Since I am justing join this plateform, this tool box will be use to mobilize volunteer for my organizations

I work in a charitable organisation & would appreciate serving back in my community to serve girls with reusable sanitary pads

President of an umbrella organization for rare disease organizations; individual advocate for patients and patients' rights and change; board on International Alliance of Patients' Organizations, Drug Information Agency; Asia-Pacific Alliance of Patients' Organizations

Very useful tools and training for community-based organizations

I am a graduate of chemical engineering from university of benin city, nigeria. i am interested in running an adult education literacy program for the community where i live presently.

i am yet new on the tool box, but i hope to learn alot from it.

Currently working for a non profit school based health organization. Recently, I became a Health educator for which I'm working on my Masters Degree.

Part of my responsibility is working with a youth group from different high schools in out parish. These amazing kids are focused on community and peer advocacy. Community Tool has assisted me in planning activities.

I am a policy analyst / program officer for the Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs.

I have been using the CTB mainly for staff development. My office just concluded the Title V federal block grant application and reporting and we are now in the planning phase. The curriculum on strategic planning (VMOSA) has been a gem in getting staff and stakeholders on board.

The Annette Strauss Institute is a non-profit organization on the University of Texas at Austin campus that encourages civic engagement and participation in Title I middle and high schools in Austin and Dallas areas by hosting the Speak Up! Speak Out! project, a civics fair centered around a grassroots problem solving curriculum culminating in a competition and presentation to judges.

The Community Toolbox is a new resource for me, but I am hoping to learn a lot from it. Most of my work at Annette Strauss centers around community outreach, fundraising, and volunteer coordination, and the Toolbox seems to have all kinds of resources to help me out in these areas. This looks to be an invaluable resource for all non-profit management professionals, whether inexperienced (like myself!) or professional. Thank you!

I am a counseling psychologist, recovering injection drug user, living with HIV and an assistant program manager charged with planning, developing and implementing a counseling program for patients, employees and the community.

I am using this tool to develop Psychological Counseling program for patients, employees and the community. I have the opportunity to connect with other and possibly seek partnership, collaborations or networking with individuals, interns, universities or organizations with similar interests.

I manage and teach at NLCC. The centre is focused on social reform and the pathway to this is literacy as there is a tremendous gap here in a failing national education system which continues to disadvantage the poor and marginalised. Our aim is to start pre-school and young learners centres in communities that have a need and demand for it - using the Jolly Phonics program as the tool for delivery.

We have just identified a community that will be our first branch and I found excellent materials on CBT to help with understanding how to set up a community literacy centre , project design information , project monitoring and evaluation etc. The language used and models presented are easy to follow. To summarize , the power of CBT for me is taking complexed issues and presenting it in clear and workable models for people who want to become social reformers to be efficient , knowledgeable and professional in this endeavour. Thank You.

I am a Certified Health Education Specialist and an adjunct professor in Gerontology

I have used the Community Tool Box as a reference for a few lectures - Roles & Skills for EBHP Instructors, and Problem-Solving, Safety Concerns & Burnout.

I am an entrepreneur leading a passionate team of developers to build a community development platform (part social networking site for community developers; part crowd-sourcing site for gathering the people with skills, knowledge, tools, or funding needed to implement ideas; and part project management / team collaboration software). We are definitely fans of CTB and the support/resources you provide to community organizers and would absolutely love to get your feedback on what we've built so far what it might be still lacking. We are currently still in the MVP/Alpha/Pre-Beta stages of our product development. Also, the platform itself has been built to be able to evolve and rapidly iterate as the needs of community developers and organizers change. We're currently on a 1-2 week development cycle, so you're feedback and suggestions will be implement quickly and are very appreciated. Looking forward to collaborating with you to find new and innovative ways to support community developers and organizers.

Our team greatly appreciates the knowledge, support, and articles (with cited sources) provided by Community Tool Box.

I am a 60 year old male returning to college to earn my bachelor degree in human services. I am currently employed part time by Northeast Kingdom Human Services in St Johnsbury, Vermont as a receptionist/office clerk,

I am just being introduced to the Community Tool Box.

I am a full-time research assistant/trainer and part time doctoral student at the KU School of Social Welfare. I have experience providing training to mental health centers and other organizations in positive behavior support and wraparound. My areas of interest include interagency collaboration, systems of care, and proactive/preventative approaches to addressing children's mental health.

Still exploring it but will let you know. My colleagues and I have done work in creating regional interagency teams in Kansas all connected through a community-focused, positive behavior support framework. I'd like to see how some of our presentation and facilitation material matches with what's in the toolbox.

I work in the school community teaching children, families and staff members healthy living through nutrition education and home cooking classes. I have access to families and due to the work, parents share their struggles. And although healthy eating is the answer to many of them, it is not the answer to all. I find that "compassion" is my greatest asset in listening and motivating them to change. It is not something I was aware of prior to the work but compassion has developed the more I address their concerns.

I am not familiar with it yet, this is my first time signing in.

I am a lawyer and I am interested in the development and empowerment of young people.

I am really excited about this platform because I am about to carry out a skills training for young girls and the information on community tool box has highly equipped me to be able to effectively pass out knowledge to these persons. Thank you.

I am a mother of 7, of Maori, NZ descent, living in a rural area at the very north of the country. Have been a community educator for many years and have recently commenced study in Social Sciences.

I am looking to develop education programmes in more remote areas of our region and looking at utilising the Community Toolbox to help to assess the needs of those communities.

i am a final year student (i.e. 4th year) of Mass Communication.

i am currently researching on how communication can be a tool to enhance various fields of endeavour. i will need help on the concept:communication tools or communication as a tool. this article on: Developing a Plan for Communication, has really been helpful.

Research scholar pursuing the Ph.D in Management topic " Stakeholder Management in IT"

References for doing the research work

Educator - BA Education, M.Ed Leadership,
currently in program PhD Ed Learning Instruction Innovation
Work focus:
Special education- Specific Learning Disabilities, Intellectually disability, Positive Behavior Support, Transition, integral technology, character education, social emotional learning,
Married, four adult children,

Today, I wanted to see what others are saying about Mission and Vision and alignment with Strategic Design

Hi! My name is Dianna Freeman. I am a mother of of 2, soon-to-be 3. I am currently a stay at home mom with plans to return to the workforce in 2016 as a business owner. I am invovled in the community as a non- religious church activist, part of the PTO in my childrens school, i volunteer for the school district, and I manage informal parent boards, in various neighborhoods and centers.

I am new to Community Tool Box, and since i've found it, I can't stay away! I use this sight for so many things! It helps me with my non-profit organization start-up, My daycare/school business plan, and my Community parenting group 'PARENTING ON PURPOSE' (P.O.P.)...even with raising my kids into young activist!
I share this information with friends, family, and community members! I think this FREE sight is a blessing to those who want to come together and change our world!

I am a Research Analyst with Advancement Project's Healthy City program. . I have been working as a researcher for about 10 years, both in an academic setting and currently as part of a non-profit organization that works locally in Los Angeles, California and state-wide, to provide capacity to partnering organizations who are interested in engaging their local community members to be a part of the research and advocacy on important issues their communities are experiencing, particularly as it relates to health equity.

Yes, our team has referenced the Community Tool Box when we developed a set of toolkits based on the community-based participatory action research framework and applied it to our workshops on community engaged mapping. This was and continues to be an instrumental website of resources. Thank you.

Executive Director of Community Action Agency

Using it as a reference tool

Am a jubilee Partner of PwC involved now in community work

in starting a backbone organisation

We are working with a number of foundations, government entities, and others to assist in creating strategic and tactical implementation plans for change.

It is great for reading about best practices and determining successful strategies.

I work as a Senior Community Liaison Officer (HIV and AIDS) and my role is to coordinate the activities of different partners in order to strengthen the multi-sectoral HIV and AIDS response in the region. I also work closely with communities and support group members through nutrition and livelihood projects. Through community led structures, we raise awareness on HIV epidemic drivers we monitor changes within communities. We believe in the principle of using local resources and finding local solutions to problems within the community. Of-course there are numerous social issues that are challenging such as alcohol misuse, teenage pregnancy, low levels of education, unemployment, gender based violence especially rape and cultural practices that make women and girls vulnerable to HIV infection, however we continue to raise awareness and promote multi-stakeholder response.

The CTB is my resource corner. When I need information for either trainings or community based campaigns, dialogues I get onto the internet and do some reading and literature review.

Iam a Monitoring and Evaluation and Knowledge Management practitioner specialized in Project Cycle Management including Project Design and Implementation; Design of M&E/Impact Assessment Studies, M&E Training, and in undertaking and disseminating both Qualitative and Quantitative research and evaluation studies.

Not yet started

I am a teacher and an entrepreneur. currently we are working on a new project on how to empower the disadvantaged youth in our local area. We would be glad to get more resources and help in making this project a reality.

After recently obtaining two undergraduate degrees, one in Spanish and one in International Studies: Latin America from Humboldt State University, I became an Operations and Administrative Assistant for Humboldt Area Foundation. I am passionate about my role within a dynamic nonprofit seeking to better our community. In my free time I dance for a local Samba band and try to maintain a home vegetable garden. My future goals are to further my education, travel to new places and put my language skills to use, and develop a more clear vision for my career.

I sit on a task force equipped with the job of creating a more inclusive atmosphere for Humboldt Area Foundation internally as well as externally. I discovered the Community Tool Box in my research for building stronger partnerships and relationships with the communities and cultural groups we serve in our region.

Hello my name is Shirley Singleton, and I am the Program Director at FamiliesETC. located in Crystal Lake, IL. Our organization help families with children who are struggling with mental challenges. We also provide families with community resources to help them to become more stable in their households. We provide services to families that have challenges within the school system with their child. I would love to talk in more details about our organization with someone from your program.
I would like to know if there a hard copy version of your program; on the how to get started information.
Thank you.
Shirley Singleton

We are in the process of implementing a youth program for the community in our area. The program will promote wellness, positive peer to peer interactions, positive coping skills and communication among the youth in our community. The program will be located throughout the community.

I am a Governance Partnership Facilitator with special engagements with local partners who do community work on issues such as development planning, democratic inclusion natural resource management and other inclusive development planning approaches.

As my work require viewing community development strategies developed by partners, I need to be informed on best practices, innovations and complexities so that my guidance will be rewarding. So, I am using Community Tool Box for training, provision of best practice advise and guidance as well as community development monitoring.