Community Capacity Building
Community Capacity Building
The Tupelo Model
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Community Development
Organization Development
Leadership Development
Human Resource Development
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Brushy Fork Leadership Model
Leadership Program Projects
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Community Strategic Planning
Leadership Development
• Expands the pool of engaged citizens• Provides an avenue to get involved• Generates the capacity for inclusive planning• Strengthens organizations and networks• Brings ideas and knowledge
Leadership Program
Projects
• Engage passion• Create results• Increase the sense of possibility• Make it harder to say “you can’t do anything
here”• Implement elements of existing plans• Feed into future planning
Projects
Leadership Program Alumni• Capitalize on the investment• Build an army • Create a venue • Capacity for implementation and planning
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Strategic Planning
• Creates linkages between sectors• Places projects in context• Builds sense of collective action• Focus on shared vision
Community Strategic Planning
The Triangle, the Circle, the Square
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The Basket
Best Practices: Leadership Development
• Local leadership program
• New curriculum builds on more than two decades of experience
• Long term impact from ongoing program
• Low cost makes it sustainable
Best Practices: Training for individuals, organizations and
communities
• Brushy Fork Annual Institute
• Focus on skills that build capacity
• Tracks include leadership development, organization development and community development
Tracks• Leadership development• Communication• Non-profit management• Financial management for non-profits• Executive problem solving• Grant writing (two levels)• Fundraising beyond grants• Marketing your programs• Web presence and social media• Managing federal grants• Appalachia’s economic future• Community Foundations• Vaughn Grisham’s creating extraordinary communities• Train the trainer for Brushy Fork’s local leadership curriculum
Brushy Fork Annual InstituteSeptember 11-14, 2012
In Berea
Best Practice: Combining training and funding
• ARC Flex-E-Grant program
• Grants of up to $10,000 for economically distressed communities in East Kentucky
• Combines training at the Annual Institute with funding from ARC
Community Capacity Building
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