Toolkits for Community Engagement

Community Futures, Community Lore
Community Futures, Community Lore is an online resource dedicated to making culturally-rooted, youth participatory action research (YPAR) resources available for free. The resources on this site originated from the work of the Intercultural Oral History Project, Community LORE, Youth In Focus, the UC Davis Center for Regional Change Putting Youth on the Map program and many, many community collaborators. 

Community Science Guidance for Scientists
Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX), powered by AGU, connects Earth and space scientists with community leaders and helps them work together on projects that use Earth and space science to advance community priorities. TEX has launched over 60 collaborative projects, giving them a view into the challenges of community science and some of the successful strategies that have been used to overcome those challenges. This resource summarizes what they have learned from those projects.

Farther Together: Seven Best Practices for Engaging Communities to Create a Healthy, Resilient Region for All
Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative's new guide provides detailed recommendations for policymakers and practitioners on centering communities impacted by inequities—from project budgeting tips to no-wrong-door approaches for gathering community-driven solutions. 

M Engage Partnership Toolbox
University of Minnesota has additional resources that offer guidance and support for navigating the many stages of university-community partnerships, including trainings, partnership checklists, memorandum of understanding and more.

Public Scholar Conversation Cards
The Public Scholar Conversation Cards were designed by Imagining America to spark conversation about the joy, contributions, and struggles of public artists, designers and scholars. 

Public Scholar Imagination Guide
The Public Scholar Imagination Guide from Imagining America provides a variety of reflection and action tools for anyone trying to improve their own practice and for those interested in making the university a more hospitable, caring, and creative place to nurture public, engaged, and activist scholarship, art-making and design.

Scientist-Community Partnerships: A scientists guide to successful collaboration 

Tools and Resources for Remote Community Engagement

The collaborative, action-oriented research we conduct and the community-led efforts we support are needed now more than ever, but how does one do this work as authentically, equitably and effectively as possible during a pandemic? To help answer this question and support our staff and others engaged in similar remote work with communities, the CRC’s Community Engagement team decided to compile the following resource guide.