Effective Practices for Community Engagement and Strengthening
- Adopting community development approaches for collaboration
- Assessing corporate climate for employee volunteer programs
- Assisting community-based organizations in delivering technology services
- Bringing technology support to schools in low-income communities
- Building community by empowering youth in ten ways
- Building homeless coalitions
- Collaborating to develop job skills in the culinary arts for at-risk youth
- Collaborating with businesses and universities to build websites for nonprofits
- Creating partnerships between schools and communities to support youth development
- Developing community service career ladder programs to support welfare-to-work
- Developing community service programs for public housing residents
- Distributing perishable foods to low-income families
- Enlisting businesses to adopt home meal routes
- Encouraging pro bono service in the advertising and communications industry
- Encouraging pro bono service with alumni from the business and management sector
- Establishing pro bono service for nonprofit organizations with corporate counsel
- Establishing pro bono service to deliver marketing and communications assistance to local nonprofit organizations
- Establishing pro bono service with a design firm
- Generating a list of 100 ways teens can serve their communities
- Honoring ordinary heroes through a community service project
- Identifying community needs with an informal opinion poll
- Improving neighborhoods with web-based community mapping
- Increasing community awareness for program sustainability
- Instituting a new service day by combining university and community resources
- Instituting pro bono service with an intermediary organization
- Integrating community into training
- Integrating community service with higher education student government programming
- Involving college students and community members in a social awareness event
- Making community technology centers accessible and welcoming
- Offering decentralized pro bono service with a management consulting firm
- Operating a building materials warehouse to support an affordable housing program
- Partnering with a bakery to provide breakfast to low-income schools
- Partnering with communities to protect children from lead poisoning
- Providing childcare to increase participation in neighborhood events
- Providing oral health care to low-income communities
- Providing social services with corporate volunteers
- Starting a community service work-study program: suggestions for community organizations and higher education institutions
- Strengthening rural economic development through a community action team
- Supporting volunteerism in the workplace
- Teaching nutrition and life-skills to adults with low incomes
- Using a "Solution Circle" as a community capacity tool for solving problems
- Using a database-driven website to connect students with community volunteer opportunities
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