Resources

CEMI Resources is an online hub providing training, technical assistance, and guidance to community organizations to help them influence inclusive economic development in their communities, cities, and regions.

Results Based Facilitation network tools: Accountability Pathway

These tools from the Results Based Facilitation network designed to help leaders reflect on their roles in collaboration and support their and others’ capacity to produce measurable improvement in a desired result.

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Results Based Facilitation network tools: HA/HA Assessment

These tools from the Results Based Facilitation network designed to help leaders reflect on their roles in collaboration and support their and others’ capacity to produce measurable improvement in a desired result.

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Results Based Facilitation network tools: High Action High Alignment Template

These tools from the Results Based Facilitation network designed to help leaders reflect on their roles in collaboration and support their and others’ capacity to produce measurable improvement in a desired result.

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Defining Clear Roles in a Collective Impact Initiative

This webinar from Collective Impact Forum outlines approaches for clarifying key roles and responsibilities across partners within a CI initiative

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DARCI Tool

This tool outlines Decision Maker / Accountable / Responsible / Consulted / Informed roles in a team. These can be individuals but they can also be groups.

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BART: Boundaries of Authority, Roles, Tasks article

This article outlines provides a short description of BART followed by a worksheet to help map out boundaries, authority structures, roles, and tasks before a meeting.

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Gradients of Agreement

Article that describes the gradients of agreement when making decisions.

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Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, Sam Kaner et al book

Chapter 1 (pgs 3-27) frames the principles of participatory decision-making; Chapter 23 (pgs 333-346) explains the difference between “unanimity” and “consensus process” and how to use the Gradients of Agreement tool

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Structuring Development for Greater Community Benefit

This report from the Othering and Belonging Institute is part of a larger body of research exploring ways to structure a development process to align with community well-being and leveraged to reinvest substantial resources into the community. It led to the visioning process from which Richmond LAND was launched.

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Centering Equity in Collective Impact

SSRI: Article reflecting on 10+ years and how the model needs to evolve in order to drive equity

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Collective Impact Forum

Online resource hub for ocllective impact

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The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves

"Shawn Ginwright, and NPQ article adapted from a chapter in the book "

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From Community Engagement to Ownership: Tools for the Field with Case Studies”

Report and framework for shifting the role of marginalized communities along a spectrum toward greater power in decision-making

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Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity

Toolkit from the Government Alliance for Race and Equity outlining the network’s core framework.

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From Seed to Harvest: A Toolkit for Collaborative Racial Equity Strategies

Tool from Race Forward that offers a framework and systematic process to build cultures of accountability and work towards racial equity outcomes in decision-making.

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Co-Governing for Multiracial Democracy

New report released jointly by Partners for Dignity and Rights and Race Forward that offers a framework for integrating power-building strategies led by movement groups with conceptions of democracy and collective governance.

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