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Community Change Initiatives Technical Assistance Links

There are many excellent web sites, which are designed to help community change practitioners. In our work with Partnership for Hawaii's Keiki these are some of the ones we have found most useful. 

The  Community Tool Kit   website is a wealth of information on all the how tos of community building.

The National Community Building Network is a national membership organization that serves as a hub for brokering information and connections among community builders.

The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives was established in 1992 as a forum in which people engaged in the field of comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs)-including foundation sponsors, directors, technical assistance providers, evaluators, and public sector officials-could meet to discuss the lessons that are being learned by initiatives across the country and to work on common problems they are facing. Also through this site you can access information regarding the Theory of Change Model of community planning and evaluation.

Community Building Resource Exchange.  This web site provides a broad array of resources and information about innovative community building efforts to revitalize poor neighborhoods and improve the life circumstances of residents and their families. See the section on Community Building for excellent web site links.

A library of high quality rural community development materials funded by the  Kellogg Foundation and other selected sponsors of recognized rural programs. Guidebooks, manuals, workshop materials, reports, books, and videos are included. A major benefit of this collection is having a central repository for such materials. Check out the link to the  Heartland Center.

Area Health Education Center Community Partners at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The organizations web site includes extensive writings on community building coalitions and lots of topic specific Tip Sheets, click on community solutions.

Started in 1999,  Making Connections is an investment by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to improve the outcomes for families and children in tough or isolated neighborhoods. The Casey Foundation's research has shown that children do better when their families are strong, and families do better when they live in communities that help them to succeed.

The Finance Project develops and disseminates an array of published resources: including papers related to financing, governance and management in education, welfare reform; family and children's services and community building and development; published and unpublished reports and studies of federal, state and local financing, governance and management issues and strategies, prepared at the request of federal and state government clients, private foundations and other organizations.

Sierra Health Foundation is a private, independent philanthropy supporting health and health-related activities in a 26-county region of northern California. They have done extensive work in community change initiatives that focus on health.

Community Builders is an interactive electronic clearing house

Funds Net contains information about funding organizations, books on fundraising and links to other resources.

Links you the  Hawaii Community Foundation website where you can find resources for all foundations administered by HCF, access RFPs, find a complete list of all Hawaii based foundations, trainings for the nonprofit sector.