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Sustainable Community Change Guides

This series of guides, produced with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Northwest Foundation, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, explores the strategy of  cooaching for community change.

Engaging in Sustainable Community Change: A Community Guide to Working with a Coach

This guide is a resource for coaches who are currently working on or are planning to work with communities to promote change. more >>

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Facilitating Successful Sustainable Change Initiatives: An Intermediary or Delivery Organization’s Guide to Coaching for Community Change

Coaching is a technique that is often used in community development work. This guide describes how intermediaries or delivery organizations, such as nonprofits and educational institutions, use coaching to promote sustainable community development. more >>

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Guiding Sustainable Community Change: An Introduction to Coaching

This guide provides an overview to the concept and the practice of coaching for community change endeavors. It explicitly highlights how coaching differs from other community change efforts as well as discusses the ways in which coaching can add value to ongoing community change efforts. more >>

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Investing in Sustainable Community Change: A Funder’s Guide to Community Coaching

A community coach is a guide who supports communities and organizations in identifying and achieving their goals. This guide, supported by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a resource for funders currently working on or planning to work on community change initiatives. more >>

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