The Community Tool Box

Explore Best Processes and Practices

The CTB also provides evidence, examplse, and links to tools to adopt and implement key processes or mechanisms to advance your work. Best processes are modifiable factors or activities that have been shown to increase the likelihood of making an impact. Here you will find support for 12 processes that promote community change and improvement:

  1. Analyzing Information About the Problem, Goals, and Factors Affecting Them
  2. Establishing your Group's Vision and Mission
  3. Defining Organizational Structure and Operating Mechanisms
  4. Developing a Framework or Model of Change
  5. Developing and Using Strategic and Action Plans
  6. Arranging for Community Mobilizers
  7. Developing Leadership
  8. Implementing Effective Interventions
  9. Assuring Technical Assistance
  10. Documenting Progress and Using Feedback
  11. Making Outcomes Matter
  12. Sustaining the Work

Other Best Practices resources, such as The Community Guide, can also help strengthen your efforts as you consider how to address specific problems and goals in your communities