新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Using Internet-based resources to build community capacity: The community tool box [http://ctb.ukans.edu/]

摘要：

The work of building healthier cities and communities involves local people working together (often in community coalitions or partnerships) to transform the conditions and outcomes that matter to them. That civic work demands an array of community-building skills (core competencies), such as community assessment, planning, community mobilization, intervention, advocacy, evaluation, and marketing successful efforts. Supporting this local (and sometimes global) work requires widespread and easy access to these community-building skills. However, these skills are not always learned, nor are they commonly taught either in formal or informal education. The Internet can provide an effective means for transmitting skill-building resources broadly and inexpensively. This report describes an Internet-based support system for building the capacity of community members to translate what we know about community building into action. This Internet-based support system is called the Community Tool Box [ http://ctb.ukans.edu/].