Community Engagement Checklist
Ensure that each aspect of the checklist is tailored to your specific community and training needs.
Adapt and modify the checklist as necessary to best serve your program’s goals and objectives.
LEVERAGING LOCAL EVENTS
☐ Event Identification: Identify local community events that align with your organization's goals and target audience or coordinate with existing events from your organization.
☐ Initiative Discussion: Plan how to effectively discuss your initiatives, provide information on available programs, and build relationships during these events.
☐ Material Preparation: Ensure you have the necessary materials, brochures, or presentations ready for distribution or presentation at the events.
☐ Community Engagement: Actively engage with event attendees to gather input, foster a sense of community, and create awareness about your initiatives.
OUTREACH MATERIAL TAILORED FOR IMPACT
☐ Audience Analysis: Research and understand the backgrounds, needs, and preferences of the community members your organization serves.
☐ Material Creation: Develop outreach and educational materials tailored to resonate with the specific community you are targeting.
☐ Content Strategy: Use relatable characters, easy-to-digest facts, and address community-specific concerns in your materials.
☐ Material Enhancement: Continuously improve and update your materials based on feedback and changing community needs.
GATHERING FEEDBACK
☐ Feedback Mechanism: Establish a system for gathering feedback from the community, both during and after events.
☐ Survey Creation: Create surveys or feedback forms that include relevant questions to assess community interests, needs, and opportunities for improvement.
☐ Survey Distribution: Administer surveys to event attendees and community members through appropriate channels.
☐ Feedback Analysis: Collect and analyze survey responses to gain insights into the community's perspective.
QUANTIFYING BENEFITS OF COMMUNITY PROJECTS
☐ Data Collection: Gather demographic data, socioeconomic indicators, and community characteristics by leveraging information from local programs and publicly available sources.
☐ Define Community Profiles: Create representative profiles of different segments within the community based on the collected data.
☐ Needs Analysis: Utilize community assessment tools to evaluate potential intervention scenarios for each community segment.
☐ Scenario Evaluation: Analyze the effectiveness of various community programs and service packages. Ensure that the proposed initiatives are culturally appropriate and address specific community needs.
☐ Result Interpretation: Interpret the assessment findings to identify which community development initiatives and program packages are most beneficial to the community.
FINDING PATHWAYS TO AFFORDABILITY
☐ Funding Pathways: Explore available funding programs that reduce or remove financial barriers to adoption of identified beneficial technologies and technology packages.
☐ Program Evaluation: Assess funding program applications for the funding pathways identified and determine cross-applicability.
☐ Remove Barriers: Aggregate application requirements that are shared across program applications and determine ideal application order when utilizing multiple funding sources.
☐ Affordability Education: Distribute relevant educational information on available funding programs to community members, highlighting any application services that your organization offers.
