Planning Tools

• Indicators of Success - Everyday Democracy
• Organizing Community - Wide Dialogue for Action and Change - Everyday Democracy
• Organizing for Change - Everyday Democracy
• Organizing Rural and Reservation Communities for Dialogue and Change - Everyday Democracy

Recruitment Resources

• Community Participant Overview
• Organizational Overview
• Invitation Letter
• Recruitment Powerpoint
• News Release
• Community Circles Diagram
• Terms Often Used

Research Tools

• Turning the Tide Community Pre Survey
• Key Informant/Focus Group Interview Questions (PDF)
• Turning the Tide Community Post Survey

Action Forum Tools

• Sample Action Forum News Release
• Sample Action Forum Invitation Letter
• 10 Steps for Success (Everday Democracy)
• Helping Action Groups Succeed (Everday Democracy)

Additional Resources

• America's Civic Health Index
  Report. Renewed Engagement: Building on American’s Civic Core - Saguaro Seminar
• Building Community Partnerships
  Determining Organizational Capacity to Support Public Deliberation in Oklahoma – Kimberly Williams & Renee Daugherty
• Can Adults Accept Youth as Equal Partners in Communities?
• Catalyzing Change
  Profiles of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators from Greene, Tompkins, and Erie Counties, New York - Peters, et al
• Citizens Developing a Voice at the Table
  A Story of Educational Organizing in Contemporary Extension Work – Scott Peters
• Community Readiness Index
  Everyday Democracy
• Foreseeable Futures #6
  Changing the Story about Higher Education’s Public Purposes and Work: Land-Grants, Liberty, and the Little Country Theater – Scott Peters
• Horizons Program Mobilizes Communities to Address Rural Poverty
• Rousing the People on the Land
  The Roots of the Educational Organizing Tradition in Extension Work – Scott Peters