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Tools & Techniques:
Tips
You Might Be A Community Builder If You . . .
5 ways to know you might be a community builder . . .
- Invest in people who aren't waiting on you. Look
for groups that have already taken steps to solve a problem together,
and give them gradually increasing support. They don't have to
be effective, just committed.
- Always work along with community members. Find
community members willing to work and become partners with them.
Anytime volunteers are working alone in someone else's community,
something is wrong.
- Make sure the recipients of your care do what they
are able. Every person, no matter how difficult their
situation, has the power to act.
- Make sure community members participate in setting
the goals and the measures. When people measure their
own work, that work improves. If you are planning someone else’s
community and they are not in the room. Stop until they are.
- When your project is finished, make sure you leave
behind stronger voices and ownership. If the community
finds itself with greater ownership (money, equity, resources)
and a greater voice (groups of people working together) you
are a community builder.
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