Inaugural Issue - Winter '04

• Sustainability Myths
• Sustainability Worksheet
• Resources: What's new at the Community Tool Box?
• Tom Wolff & Associates Offer New Services

 

 

Spring '04 Issue

• Whats New
• Four Approaches to Sustainability
• News
• Resources

 

 

FALL '04 Issue

• Collaborative Solutions – Six Key Components
• Tom Wolff & Associates – What is new?
• Resources

 

 

WINTER '05 Issue

• Collaborative Solutions – Engaging the Community
• Agency-Based and Community-Based Approaches
• Four approaches that work
• Resources

• Special Issue: Hurricane Katrina and Community Building
• Community Building Responses in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
• One model community building model to apply – Healthy Communities
• What others are saying
• Resources
  
  

• Practice democracy, promote active citizenship and empowerment
          Overview
          The Ladder of Participation
          How do we encourage democratic participation?
          Collaborative leadership
          Microdemocracy
          A Community Story
• Resources
• Youth on Board

FALL '06 ISSUE

Taking Action: Addressing issues of social change and power based on a common vision.

• Taking Action: Overview
• Creating a common vision
• Community action to create community change
• Changes in programs, policies and practices
• Key factors in creating community change
• Community Story – Lower Outer Cape Community Coalition
• References
• Tom Wolff delivers invited address to the American Psychological Association in New Orleans August 2006

Winter '07 issue

Addressing Issues of Social Change and Power.

• Overview
• Collaborative empowerment versus collaborative betterment
• How do we address issues of social change in our collaborative efforts 
• Advocacy
• Organizing and Social Action Techniques
• Getting involved in the political process
• Power based versus relationship based social change
• Resources and references
• Tom Wolff & Associates Recent Clients 2004-2006

summer '07 issue

Assessing Our Progress & Celebrating Our Success

• Why does documentation and evaluation matter in collaborative solutions?
• What kinds of questions can an evaluation help answer?
• Community-based participatory evaluation
• A framework for evaluation of coalitions
• Community Story:  a neighborhood organization
• Levels of coalition assessment - tool
• Community Story: national organization with multiple sites
• Coalition Member Assessment - tool  
• Community Story: a small non-profit and two communities
• Tools and Resources

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