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Capacity Building

Strategies for Capacity?Building Activities

Publisher: 
Corporation for National & Community Service

This guide details four strategies related to capacity building and sustainability, including: recruitment and management of volunteers; partnerships; marketing and promotion; and increase and dive

Journal Articles on Program Successes: Communities in Action

Publisher: 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This Web site contains journal articles that describe lessons learned by communities participating in CDC

Scope, scale, and sustainability: What it takes to create lasting community change

Publisher: 
Association for the Study and Development of Community

This study examines 11 comprehensive community initiatives to better understand how these complex efforts can reach the scope, scale, and sustainability needed to achieve lasting community change.

Find Youth Info: Resources to Strengthen America's Youth

Publisher: 
Interagency Working Group

This Web site offers Federally-developed interactive tools and other resources to help community organizations and partnerships plan and implement effective youth programs. Online tools include social bookmarking, a calendar of events, news feeds, mapping tools, and searchable youth program database.

Series: Primers (for SAMSHA's Strategic Prevention Framework)

Publisher: 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This series consists of seven publications, each covering one element of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Strategic Prevention Framework.

Partnering With Communities to Promote Student Success: A Review of the Research

Publisher: 
California Department of Education

This brief examines how school-community partnerships are effective in closing the student academic achievement gap.

Transforming School Improvement to Develop a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports: What District Superintendents Say They Need to Move Forward

Publisher: 
Center for Mental Health in Schools

This report examines school district superintendents' awareness, interest, and suggestions related to the need to expand the focus of school improvement planning and implementation to include deve

Building a System of Excellent High Schools: A Framework and Tool for Discussion and Action

Publisher: 
The Academy for Educational Development and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University

This tool outlines a range of strategies that districts and their community partners can use to create the capacity and conditions for systemic high school transformation.

American Indians & Alaska Natives: Violence Prevention Resources

This resource page provides an annotated list of resources that address mental health, substance abuse, and violence prevention issues focused on American Indian and Alaskan Native youth.

Innovation Network

This organization offers program planning and evaluation consulting, training, and Web-based tools to nonprofit organizations to improve program effectiveness, better serve communities, and communi