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Tools and Resources

Customized Resources and Published Materials

As programs develop, many organizations need customized training manuals, curricula or other written materials tailored to support specific initiatives. We have developed these customized materials for many organizations who are using them in communities across the country.

The Boston Foundation – Boston Community Building Curriculum- Principle V “Ensuring Access to Fundamental Opportunities” This comprehensive training module covers – creating a vision, community organizing, creating a coalition, developing a and tactical plan. Part of a seven-part curriculum.

American Cancer Society – Community Development Manual – Curriculum for ACS outreach staff across the country based on training workshops delivered by Tom Wolff and Gillian Kaye.

Publications

The efforts of your coalition or system may also benefit from one of our popular publications.

From the Ground Up: A Workbook on Coalition Building and Community Development

The complete toolbox for effectively building coalitions and developing healthy communities that speaks to the everyday work of coalition coordinators and community organizers (200 pages, paperback)


The Spirit of the Coalition

“A lively and highly accessible book filled with real world illustrations and a wealth of practical tools” —Meredith Minkler Dr.P.H., University of California, Berkeley (259 pages, paperback)


Outreach Works

“A must read for people doing or designing health access outreach initiatives.” —Cathy Dunham, The Access Project (168 pages, spiral-bound)


Coalition Building Tip Sheets

Twenty-eight information-filled tip sheets covering the full gamut of coalition issues from start up to sustainability


Healthy Communities: America’s Best Kept Secret

The video that tells the Healthy Communities story; features leaders of the healthy communities movement as well as two live community examples (25 minutes, VHS)


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For larger orders involving 10 or more items you can order directly from Tom Wolff & Associates using this order form (pdf). Individually and for other orders of less than 10, all these publications are available from Community Partners, Inc.

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Free Resources

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The following Coalition Building Tip Sheets are two page summaries of key points on many critical issues in seeking collaborative solution. They were originally published as inserts in the Community Catalyst, the newsletter of Community Partners. They have been used and reproduced widely over the past ten years.

Coalition Building Tip Sheets (pdf)

The three articles that follow are recent publications by Tom Wolff that review the field of practice and research in community coalition building, healthy communities and collaborative evaluation.

Recent Articles by Tom Wolff

  • Community Coalition Building – Contemporary Practice and Research (pdf)
    Published in the American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 29, no.2, 2001
    Introduction p. 165-172 A Practitioner’s Guide to Successful Coalitions 173-191
    These articles identify nine key dimensions related to coalition success and delineate best practices.
  • A Practical Approach to Evaluating Coalitions (pdf)
    Chapter in Evaluating Community Collaborations Edited by Thomas Backer, Springer Publishing, New York 2003
    To purchase contact Springer Publishing
    This chapter answers your key concerns in designing an evaluation of your collaborative and provides nine useful tools for both process and outcome evaluation of coalitions.
  • The Healthy Communities: Movement a Time for Transformation (pdf)
    National Civic Review, Vol. 92, Number 2, Summer, 2003, p.95-112
    This recent article looks at some of the challenges that the healthy communities movement faces and draws on the experience of Healthy Communities Massachusetts to suggest ways that practitioners can reenergize their efforts.

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