Tools & Resources
Sphere of Influence
This tool (from CHR&R) helps you identify personal connections with the people who know the decision makers. It asks who do you know who knows the key decision makers? Your answers will help to build advocacy for the policy or system change you desire.
Health Care Equity: Tool Kit for a Winning Policy Strategy
This toolkit (from The Praxis Project) provides analytical frameworks, tools, and concepts, drawing on lessons from successful grassroots policy advocacy that effectively shifted emphasis from individual blaming (behavior change) to institutional accountability (policy change).
Finding Your Inner Fundraiser
This tool (created by Stephanie Roth & Kim Klein of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal) includes a self assessment to identify ways board members and supporters can contribute to resource development.
Donor Fund-Raising Get Started Tool
This tool (from M+R) will help your organization plan or expand its efforts to secure funds from individual and corporate donors.
Money and Coalitions: Delights and Dilemmas
This tool (from Tom Wolff) can help you explore whether seeking outside funding is a good idea for your situation.
Tips for Maintaining Community Interest and Involvement
This tool (from Bank of Ideas) is a page of suggestions for keeping members and active participants involved and the community informed and supportive. Use it as a checklist for how to keep momentum going. It can be found in Work Together under ...
Agenda Example
This tool (from CHR&R) provides an example of an agenda designed with purpose and timeframes. It can be found in Work Together under Reinforce healthy partnership practices.
27-9-3 Tool: Developing Your Persuasive Message
This tool (from M + R) describes a process for creating powerful, succinct, messages—no more than 27 words, delivered in nine seconds, containing just three (or fewer) ideas. It can be found in: Act on What's Important under...
Community Health Partnerships: Tools and Information for Development & Support
This manual (from the National Business Coalition on Health) provides tools and information about establishing successful partnerships between public health and business leaders (p. 20). It can be found in Work Together under Recruit Diverse Stakeholders From Multiple Sectors.
Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests Checklist
This checklist (from Community Tool Box) includes key points from Section 8: Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and their Interests including what it means to identify stakeholders and their interests, why it’s important to do, and when and how to do it.