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Ignite!: Getting Your Community Coalition Fired Up for Change - Softcover

Butterfoss Ph.D, Frances Dunn

 
9781491810132: Ignite!: Getting Your Community Coalition Fired Up for Change
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1491810130 ISBN 13: 9781491810132
Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2013

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Frances Dunn Butterfoss, Ph.D., captured the attention of academics and practitioners everywhere with her landmark textbook, Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health, which provided a comprehensive approach to coalitions. Ignite! Getting Your Community Coalition Fired Up for Change is a more concise, user-friendly book geared for community practitioners, leaders, and activists who want to build and sustain innovative organizations and coalitions to improve the health and well-being of their communities. Learn why sustaining and building a coalition is very much like planning, building, fueling, and sustaining a campfi re, and get detailed guidance on how to: * determine if coalition building is the best way to achieve your goals; * pick the simplest structure to achieve your objective; * build and sustain innovative organizations and community coalitions with the power to change policies, systems, and environments. The book's four parts-Before You Build It, Build It, Make It Work, and Sustain It-provide practical strategies to build coalitions, as well as troops, clubs, neighborhood associations, and other organizations. Whether you're a volunteer or professional, you'll get tools that make it easier to accomplish meaningful and lasting change with Ignite!

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ignite!

Getting Your Community Coalition "Fired Up" for Change

By Frances Dunn Butterfoss

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2013 Frances Dunn Butterfoss, PhD
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4918-1013-2

Contents

Foreword...................................................................xi
Preface....................................................................xiii
Overview of the Steps to a Successful Coalition............................xv
Part I Before You Build It!................................................
Why Collaborate?...........................................................3
Collective Impact..........................................................4
What Is a Coalition?.......................................................5
Why Do Coalitions Form?....................................................7
Why Do Coalitions Work?....................................................7
Assess Your Community......................................................8
Conducting a SWOT Analysis.................................................9
Is a Coalition Right for Your Community Work?..............................10
Collaboration Resources....................................................15
Part II Build It!..........................................................
Clarify the Purpose, Vision, and Mission of the Coalition..................23
Choose the Simplest Structure that Achieves Your Goals.....................26
Involve the Right Individuals and Organizations............................34
Grow Transformational Leaders..............................................42
Put Commitments in Writing.................................................49
Use Effective Communication Strategies.....................................51
Coalition Building Resources...............................................58
Part III Make It Work!.....................................................
Community Planning and Assessment..........................................65
Take Action: Develop a Community Action Plan...............................67
Initiate Strategies........................................................75
Encourage Commitment, Participation, and Sharing of Resources..............84
What to Do When Things Go Wrong............................................86
Community Assessment, Planning, and Implementation Resources...............92
Part IV Sustain It!........................................................
What Is Sustainability?....................................................101
Identify Resources to Sustain Strategies...................................103
Market Your Coalition and Its Work.........................................106
Sustain Energy and Interest in the Work....................................108
Spin Off Strategies and Change Structure or Processes......................111
Use Evaluation to Sustain Your Coalition and Its Efforts...................112
What Are the Steps for Conducting an Evaluation?...........................114
Expand or End Your Coalition When Goals Are Reached........................123
Evaluation Resources.......................................................125
Other Sustainability Resources.............................................130
Afterword..................................................................133
Glossary of Terms..........................................................135
References.................................................................141
Index......................................................................149


CHAPTER 1

BEFORE YOU BUILD YOUR CAMPFIRE!


Before you ever strike a match, you are responsible for pre-fire planning.Whether you are making a fire for fun, cooking, or warmth, good decisionswill ensure a safe and appropriate fire.

Decide whether you should build a campfire or not. There arefire-burning restrictions for every national park, state or federal forest,and all public land. Restrictions may range from "any fire any place"to "no fires at all," depending on fire danger levels and environmentalimpact issues. Campfires can become wildfires that destroy thousandsof acres of wilderness and nearby homes when people make poor choicesand build fires in high winds or low humidity. Only start a fire whenconditions are favorable.

Choose your fire site. Once you decide to have a campfire, whereyou actually build your fire and how you prepare the site are critical. Yourgoal should be to leave no trace of fire once you move on, so minimize yourimpact by heeding the following tips:

• Gather fuel. Gather wood far away from camp and take onlydead, downed branches.

• Fire site. Make a small fire that can be easily erased. If a firering is available, use it or build your own.

• Disperse ashes. Burn all wood down to ash and take it with youwhen you leave. Disperse it well off the trail, or you will attractothers to overuse the same spot.


BEFORE YOU BUILD YOUR COALITION!

Before you decide to build a coalition, you must understand what thisorganization is and whether you actually need to build one to accomplishyour community's work. Coalitions are complex entities that requiresignificant investments of time and resources to establish and maintain.A general rule of thumb is not to build a coalition or partnership if asimpler structure will get the job done or if the community does not embrace thisapproach.


Why Collaborate?

Collaboration is at the root of all community building. Generally,collaboration occurs whenever people work together to achieve a commongoal or goals. The kind of collaboration that is required of a coalition orpartnership involves shared resources, rewards, responsibility, and risks,as well as mutual accountability for success (Mattesich and Monsey2001, 7). This formal, sustained commitment allows organizations toachieve results that they would be less likely to achieve alone (Winer andRay 1994, 24). Despite the rewards, organizations involved in collaborativeefforts must understand and respect each other's self-interests (i.e.,structure, agenda, values, and culture), relationships, linkages, and howpower is shared and distributed (Gray 1996, 59).

Collaboration changes the way organizations work together. It movesorganizations from competing to building consensus; from workingalone to including others from diverse cultures, fields, and settings;from thinking...

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Verlag
AuthorHouse
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1491810130
ISBN 13 
9781491810132
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Anzahl der Seiten
176
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