Community Capacity Building

Community Capacity Building

The Tupelo Model

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Community Development

Organization Development

Leadership Development

Human Resource Development

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Brushy Fork Leadership Model

Leadership Program Projects

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Community Strategic Planning

Leadership Development

• Expands the pool of engaged citizens• Provides an avenue to get involved• Generates the capacity for inclusive planning• Strengthens organizations and networks• Brings ideas and knowledge

Leadership Program

Projects

• Engage passion• Create results• Increase the sense of possibility• Make it harder to say “you can’t do anything

here”• Implement elements of existing plans• Feed into future planning

Projects

Leadership Program Alumni• Capitalize on the investment• Build an army • Create a venue • Capacity for implementation and planning

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Strategic Planning

• Creates linkages between sectors• Places projects in context• Builds sense of collective action• Focus on shared vision

Community Strategic Planning

The Triangle, the Circle, the Square

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Leadership Development

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Strategic Planning

The Basket

Best Practices: Leadership Development

• Local leadership program

• New curriculum builds on more than two decades of experience

• Long term impact from ongoing program

• Low cost makes it sustainable

Best Practices: Training for individuals, organizations and

communities

• Brushy Fork Annual Institute

• Focus on skills that build capacity

• Tracks include leadership development, organization development and community development

Tracks• Leadership development• Communication• Non-profit management• Financial management for non-profits• Executive problem solving• Grant writing (two levels)• Fundraising beyond grants• Marketing your programs• Web presence and social media• Managing federal grants• Appalachia’s economic future• Community Foundations• Vaughn Grisham’s creating extraordinary communities• Train the trainer for Brushy Fork’s local leadership curriculum

Brushy Fork Annual InstituteSeptember 11-14, 2012

In Berea

Best Practice: Combining training and funding

• ARC Flex-E-Grant program

• Grants of up to $10,000 for economically distressed communities in East Kentucky

• Combines training at the Annual Institute with funding from ARC

Community Capacity Building