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Engaging Community Toolkit

Engaging Community:
A Toolkit for Building Healthy and Resilient Communities
 
What if creating the future you wished for was as simple as starting a conversation?
 
Start the conversation in your community by using the powerful yet practical new resource from The Berkana Institute and Neighborhood Centers Inc.

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Whether your community is geographic, cultural, or virtual, this toolkit offers you what you need: inspiration, processes for hosting good conversations, and strategies for engaging all members of your community in working toward their dreams and aspirations. Using these resources, you can begin to build a healthy and resilient community that can realize its dreams and weather whatever storms are next on the horizon.
 
Engaging Community is the result of conversations between Margaret Wheatley, author and co-founder of The Berkana Institute, and Angela Blanchard, President & CEO of Neighborhood Centers Inc. They realized that sharing their experience and successes could benefit all those doing community engagement work.
 
A sampling of the contents:
  • 12 Key Principles DVD - A presentation by Margaret Wheatley on the principles of Healthy Community Change, and an illustrated set of cards.

  • Turning to One Another, Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future, by Margaret Wheatley. This book has 10 Conversation Starters, including: "When have I experienced good listening?" and "When have I worked for the common good?"
  • Unlocking the Strengths of Our Communities: A Step-by-Step Guide to Appreciative Community Building, by Neighborhood Centers Inc. Six questions that uncovered the strengths in one of the U.S.'s most diverse neighborhoods and a CD of examples, customizable tools and agendas for community building.

  • Plus many more tools and resources to inspire your community.
    Toolkits are available in English or Spanish.
     
     
    To Order:
     
    Price per toolkit:
    New lower price! $129 + $14.95 S/H (for priority shipping within U.S. only)
    Shipping and Handling is waived with a purchase of 10 or more Toolkits.
     
    Two Ways to Order:
    1. Complete and Email the Order Form (Word Document).
    2. Call 713-669-5284