Love what you’re seeing? Wondering what steps are next? We’ve got resources to help you determine readiness, form a team, and start to look at who is in your community.
1. Is your town ready?
Request our Readiness Assessment Information
2. Got a can-do group?
Build a Heart & Soul Team
3. Are you prepared to reach everyone?
Community Network Analysis
Ready, set, get started
Cortez was updating its comprehensive plan and revising its land use code. City planners wanted to get residents, especially missing voices, involved in planning. That meant engaging the community in new and creative ways, with block parties, pot-luck meals and neighborhood meetings.
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Heart & Soul is a positive disruptive force in most communities. It causes residents to turn out for meetings and conversations in ways that are outside traditional norms.
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The Community Heart & Soul Field Guide, and the resources that accompany it, provide useful information and field-tested tips on forming a team, encouraging community volunteerism, getting the word out, and engaging everyone.
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