Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability

Programs designed to guide planning efforts that result in documents describing the mission, vision, goals, objectives, strategies and action plans developed through a participatory process. Planning processes range in scope and duration, from long-term strategic plans for an entire community to short-term plans for a project. Audiences include municipal staff, community leaders, organizations and interest groups, leaders in the arts community and artists, and the business community.

Example program topics: city, county, or regional planning; planning for community infrastructure, including broadband; disaster preparedness and recovery; arts and culture programs; community food systems

Community Assessment Focus Group Guide

Topic: Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability, Inclusive Processes and Engagement | Phase: Assessing | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Process Guide

The Extension Community Assessment Focus Group Facilitation Guide is a tool for facilitating listening sessions with community members. Involving community members in a focus group is an effective way to engage people in discussion and the identification of community issues. This document provides guidance to Extension Agents to facilitate a…

Community First Impressions

Topic: Community Health, Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability | Phase: Assessing | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Program, Tool

As the old saying goes, “you never get a second chance to make a first impression.” For first time visitors, the way a community presents itself is of equal importance. The look and feel of the community experienced by a visitor will most likely influence how long they stay, if…

Community Survey Tool

Topic: Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability, Community-Based Economic Development | Phase: Organizing, Assessing | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Web-based Tool

This online tool provide: information on how to survey a community, a repository of questionnaire templates that you can edit and modify to meet your needs, and information on where to find secondary data that could also help you think of additional questions to ask your community.