Resources Category: Community Engagement
Impactos del Modelo de Participación Comunitaria (Español con subtítulos)
Impacts of Community Engagement Model (English with Captions)
Evaluation and Community Engagement: Everyone is an Evaluator
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.
Impacts of Community Engagement Model (in English and Spanish)
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.
Tapping the Potential of Community Engagement Playbook
This Playbook is a creative outlet and workbook for deep guided reflection and practice using all 5 senses to embody community engagement practices & principles.
Community Engagement Assessment Tool
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
Trying to Engage Effectively with Community? Recommendations for Large Organizations
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.
Stories of Impact: Nexus Community Partners
With Nexus’ expertise and guidance, Urban Homeworks changed the way it worked, integrating community engagement into their organizational culture and ensuring residents had decision-making power, 2015.
Stories of Impact: Native American Community Development Institute
NACDI used community engagement strategies to build American Indian political, cultural, and economic power on the South Side of Minneapolis.
Stories of Impact: Hope Community
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: Cultural Wellness Center
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.