Community Capacity Toolkit
####Chapter 6.1: Community Capacity Toolkit
When determining your city’s engagement strategy, it is important to think broadly about whom you can turn to for help with engagement, understand what your available resources are, and incorporate your community’s capacity into the strategy. The following is a checklist to assist you in answering these questions.
To whom can we look for help with engagement?
Are there established public-private partnerships or governmental organizations doing this work with whom we could connect?
Are there established nonprofits doing this work with whom we could connect?
Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities
MacArthur Foundation’s Metro Lab Program
Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities
Are there other organizations doing this work with whom we could connect?
What are our available resources?
Are there training programs that are easily accessible to us?
Professional organization courses
Academic courses
What resources are available through our library system?
What resources are available through our local academic institutions?
What is our community’s capacity?
Are there local groups meeting already who would benefit from our city’s data or could inform our city’s engagement strategy?
Civic tech groups (e.g., Meetups, Women Who Code, Code for America Brigades, etc.)
Academic organizations or universities
Advocacy groups
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