Groups, Meetings, and Events
Planning, Organizing, and Conducting
Mobilizing key community people and organizations - and keeping them engaged - helps ensure a project's success. These tools focus on the process of forming and running groups, meetings, programs, and events.
Charges, Missions, and Program Overviews
- Attributes of a Successful Group or Committee
- Community Advisory Council (Purpose, Roles and Responsibilities, Resource Members, Decision-making Process)
- Mission: How Clear Is Your Mission?
- Mission: Developing a Mission Statement
- Writing: Writing an Overview of your Program, Group, or Task Force (Features to Include)
Meeting Protocol: Conducting and Facilitating Meetings
- Meeting Tips
- Parliamentary Procedure
- Types of Motions
- The First Meeting
- What to Do When You Have Problems in the Meeting
Facilitating and Encouraging Participation
- Coalitions: Is Your Coalition on the Road to Success?
- Community Opinion Survey
- A Tale of Two Open Houses: The Open House Technique
- The Basics of Creating a Participation Strategy
- The First Meeting
- Volunteers - Responsibilities and Rights


