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Nexus Community Engagement Institute

NCEI works to build more permanently organized communities by creating a healthy ecosystem where all communities are readily engaged and resourced.

Resources

A 2018 report detailing five lessons learned from this unique partnership between a private foundation, an intermediary organization, and a coalition of grassroots community organizations.

Blue Line Coalition: Five Lessons Learned

The Blue Line Coalition is a group of community organizations working to incorporate community power and voices in the planning of the Blue Line light rail extension through North Minneapolis. This video was produced by Linebreak Media.

Blue Line Coalition: Incorporating Community Power & Voices in Planning

We offer this as a guide to help ourselves and our fellow practitioners grow in our understanding of community engagement and to be thoughtful about our own practice of engagement techniques

Community Engagement Assessment Tool

This report includes recommendations for institutional staff to understand the foundational work that must happen to ensure Community Advisory Committees can be a meaningful vehicle for infusing community voice into critically important decisions.

Community Voice & Power: Creating Equitable & Effective Community Advisory Structures

Community engagement evaluation creates processes for many people in a community to bring their experience, knowledge and dreams to shape the evaluation and, thus, the outcomes of the work. A best practice of community engagement is to involve community members in shaping and leading evaluation.

Evaluation and Community Engagement: Everyone is an Evaluator

Impactos del Modelo de Participación Comunitaria (Español con subtítulos)

Impactos del Modelo de Participación Comunitaria (Español con subtítulos)

Impacts of Community Engagement Model (English with Captions)

Impacts of Community Engagement Model (English with Captions)

This model describes the outcomes that result from authentic community engagement. It includes the tangible, visible goals of the work as well as the assets that are the building blocks for positive change.

Impacts of Community Engagement Model (in English and Spanish)

Nexus Community Partners and the Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation are featured in this story about leveraging resources to support community engagement work. Video produced by Linebreak Media.

Leveraging Resources in Community Engagement Work

Nexus Community Partners presents its approach and principles of community engagement that make up the Nexus Community Engagement Institute (NCEI). Video produced by Linebreak Media.

NCEI Approach and Principles

Nexus Community Engagement Institute: Our Journey

Nexus Community Engagement Institute: Our Journey

A 2015 report on Casa de Esperanza’s 10 year community engagement journey that not only resulted in a new community-led initiative, but a transformed organization.

Stories of Impact: Casa de Esperanza

Learn about how The Cultural Wellness Center increased parent engagement in a Saint Paul Public School using a community engagement strategy grounded in cultural connection.

Stories of Impact: Cultural Wellness Center

This story details Hope Community’s approach to deep community engagement, an organic model shaped by input from partners, residents, and other stakeholders for the past 20 years.

Stories of Impact: Hope Community

NACDI used community engagement strategies to build American Indian political, cultural, and economic power on the South Side of Minneapolis.

Stories of Impact: Native American Community Development Institute

Stories of Impact: Nexus Community Partners

Stories of Impact: Nexus Community Partners

This Playbook is a creative outlet and workbook for deep guided reflection and practice using all 5 senses to embody community engagement practices & principles.

Tapping the Potential of Community Engagement Playbook

This report includes tips and strategies to engage more effectively with community. It is based on learnings and reflections from a long-term community engagement cohort inside of a large institution.

Trying to Engage Effectively with Community? Recommendations for Large Organizations

NCEI News & Events

May 1, 2024

Sunsetting the Nexus Community Engagement Institute

January 31, 2022

Translating Life-Giving Cohorts into the Virtual Realm

November 12, 2021

Introducing the Tapping the Potential Playbook

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