Designing the Initiative through Project Development

(3-6 Months)

The design phase focuses on informing the community about the initiative, conducting an initial community assessment and developing a culturally-based, customized, capacity-building plan. The core activities are:

Community Outreach/Civic Engagement: Doing targeted outreach to diverse community groups and engaging in public education activities to share information about the initiative and local community issues.

Community Infrastructure Development: Developing an initial inventory of community assets by identifying local leadership, organizations, stakeholder groups and capacity-building programs.

Relationship Building: Identifying and mapping existing community (people-to-people, organizational and institutional) networks and convening multi-issue community forums.

Community Development: Reviewing previous/current planning projects and developing a culturally-based, participatory community planning process for the initiative.

Organizing and Advocacy for Institutional Change: Reviewing historical information on the community and identifying existing advocacy organizations/campaigns.

Community Research and Evaluation: Compiling information on community history, demography, organizations, leadership groups, networks, planning projects, advocacy campaigns and capacity-building programs.

Social Change Indicators:

• Community Outreach/Education Activity
• Community Research/Assessment:
  • Leadership, Organizations, Stakeholder Groups and Capacity-Building Programs (Community Infrastructure)
  • People-to-People, Organizational and Institutional Networks (Relationship-Building)
  • Social Justice History and Advocacy Campaigns (Organizing/ Advocacy for Institutional Change)
• Community Planning Process
  

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