CED Tools and Resources

Are you looking for CED Tools that you can use right away to do CED in your community? The following is a selection of handbooks, toolkits, evaluation tools, and planning guides that should help you.

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Partnerships and Participation

Partnership Self Assessment Tool - Web-based assessment tool to help measure strengths and weaknesses of partnerships and organizational collaboration processes.
http://www.cacsh.org/psat.html

MSP Resource Portal - Information and resources from Wageningen University and Research Centre on participatory processes, methodologies, research, tools, facilitation tips and links
http://portals.wi.wur.nl/msp/?

A Handbook for Trainers on Participatory Local Development - International handbook for participatory development initiatives http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad346e/ad346e00.HTM

Community Facilitation Trainers Guide (Canadian Mental Health Association) - Step-by-step community facilitation manual http://www.cmha.ca/ttm/overview.html

Partnership Handbook (Flo Frank/Anne Smith), Service Canada - Introductory guide to community development and capacity building http://www1.servicecanada.gc.ca/en/epb/sid/cia/partnership/handbook.shtml

Community Development Handbook (Flo Frank/Anne Smith), Human Resources and Social Development Canada - Tools and tips to enhance partnerships and how to make them happen www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/epb/sid/cia/comm_deve/cdhbooke.pdf

The World Café - Methodology for focused community conversation
http://www.theworldcafe.com/

Community Empowerment - Methods to Strengthen Communities - CED publications, tools, articles
http://www.scn.org/cmp/

Project Planning and Evaluation

The Communications Initiative - Step-by-step guides and tools for planning http://www.comminit.com/planningmodels.html

Community Toolbox - Popular website and ‘toolbox’ for community development processes
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/

Evaluation and Citizen Engagement - Department of Justice Canada - Canadian guide to stakeholder involvement in the evaluation process
http://canada.justice.gc.ca

Outcome Measurement Network - Resource library on program strategies, tools and methods
http://national.unitedway.org/outcomes/library/pgmomres1.cfm

Kellogg Foundation - this is an excellent site for evaluation tools. See the “W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook/Logic Model Development Guide” and the “Facilitator’s Guide for Participatory Evaluation with Young People”, among others.
http://www.wkkf.org (Click on “Knowledgebase” and then “Toolkits”).

Other CED Tools

Arizona State University - Values Assessment - Model for personal values assessment
http://career.asu.edu/S/careerplan/selfdiscovery/ValuesAssessment.htm

A Guidebook for Community Learning Networks (Human Resources and Social Development Canada) - Canadian Guidebook on ‘Community Learning Asset Mapping
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/hip/lld/olt/Resources/toolkit/mapping/mapping_guidebook.shtml

SEDI (Social and Enterprise Innovations) - Tools and resources to assist non-profit organizations in the delivery of small business and CED services
http://www.sedi.org/html/resources/toolkits.asp

The Critical Thinking Community (The Foundation for Critical Thinking) - Library resources and information promoting critical thinking as a means to change
http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/index.cfm

Action Research Resources - Links to websites and resources on Action Research
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html

Association of Community Health Improvement - Health association that strengthens community health through education, peer networking and the dissemination of practical tools
http://www.communityhlth.org/communityhlth/resources/planning.html

Social Enterprise

Ashoka - a Canadian charity that is dedicated to building the global profession of social entrepreneurship
http://www.ashoka.org/home/index.cfm

Canadian Centre for Social Entrepreneurship - this Centre is based out of the University of Alberta and provides a university program, resources and publications.
http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/ccse/

Social Enterprise Magazine -
http://www.socialenterprisemagazine.org/

Social Enterprise Coalition -
http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/Default.aspx

Social Enterprise Alliance - provides contacts, resources, links and information on Social Enterprise development in the U.S.
http://www.se-alliance.org/

Social Capital Partners - Provides investment-funding resources for Social Enterprise initiatives.
http://www.socialcapitalpartners.ca/

Social Enterprise Initiative (Harvard Business School) - this site has program information, publications, and forums/seminars.
http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/

REDF (Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) - this site has Social Enterprise resources, publications and links
http://www.redf.org/

 Enterprising Non-Profits (ENP) -
http://www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca/marketplace/

Vancity - My Community - is Canada’s largest credit union. The site provides a background on social corporate responsibility and funding of community development initiatives.
https://www.vancity.com/MyCommunity/

Canada Social Purchasing Portal - The site provides information on the concept of a Social Purchasing Portal which works by targeting existing everyday business purchasing to suppliers of goods and services to blend business and social values.
http://www.sppcanada.org/canada/index.cfm