Tools to Begin Taking Action in the Community
Practical frameworks and resources to guide, support, and evaluate community and system change.
Community Tool Box
A Model for Getting Started: frameworks for guiding, supporting, and evaluating the work of community and system change.

Get Started
Essential tools and frameworks to help you take the first steps toward meaningful and lasting community impact.

BUILD YOUR VISION
A straightforward approach to help your parish clarify its purpose and create a shared vision for the future.
S.W.O.T ANALYSIS
Review the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing your organization, Includes an example and template to help you turn insights into action.

ASSESS & ACT
Understand where you stand and use your findings to make informed, strategic decisions that drive positive change.
ASSET-BASED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (ABCDI)
A network of practitioners committed to resident-centered, asset-based community development that builds on local strengths and creates sustainable change.

BUILD ON STRENGTHS
Empowering communities by identifying, cultivating. and mobilizing the gifts, skills, and talents that already exist within.
CALLED TO TRANSFORMATION: AN ASSET-BASED APPROACH TO ENGAGING CHURCH AND COMMUNITY
Grounded in 1 Corinthians 12, this approach celebrates the gifts within every individual and community to serve and uplift together.

SERVE TOGETHER
Recognizing our unique gifts, we work as the Body of Christ-together- to meet needs and create thriving communities.
STRONGER TOGETHER. TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES.
Local gifts. Shared purpose. Lasting impact.
This organization supports everyone working to achieve racial equity.
It offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and helps those working for racial justice at every level -in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.
Understanding. Empathy. Action
Together for equity.

