Initiating & Scoping

Preliminary planning before you even know if you will be working with the group.

Business Sustainability: Moving from Thought to Action

Topic: Business Development, Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability | Phase: Initiating & Scoping, Organizing, Assessing, Visioning & Planning | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Fact Sheet

This fact sheet describes what a sustainable business is and will help businesses develop a sustainability goal, understand the behavior changes necessary to meet that goal, provide techniques to achieve those behavior changes, and outline the implementation of a successful plan.

Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing

Topic: Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability, Community-Based Economic Development, Human Capacity Building, Natural Resources, Organizational Development | Phase: Initiating & Scoping, Organizing, Assessing, Visioning & Planning, Implementing, Evaluating & Reflecting | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Presentation, Process Guide, Program

The Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing (BGGW) workshop is an award-winning two-day in-person training in which participants draft a proposal, give and receive feedback on each other’s proposal, search for funders, and learn the importance of building relationships with partners and funders. The BGGW workshop is an efficient, economical, evidence-based…

A Convenors Guide to Hosting a Public Forum

Topic: Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability, Inclusive Processes and Engagement, Organizational Development | Phase: Initiating & Scoping | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Process Guide

This publication will assist an agent with details of how to organize a host committee and design a public forum.