The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, And Mobilizing Resources

Tools for people seeking to improve their communities

This significant guide puts the tools of democracy into everyone’s hands. Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 20-year experience in developing community leaders, it gives community members—like yourself—the tools to bring people together to make changes. 

Here are some of the useful resources you’ll find:

• Identifying Community Assets
  
• Community Problem Analysis
  
• Accessing Community Data
  
• Appreciative Inquiry
  
• Translating Vision to Action
  
• Interpersonal Communication for Leaders
  
• Managing Interpersonal Conflict as a Leader
  
• Building Social Capital Across Cultures
  
• Network Mapping: Locating Your Social Capital
  
• Stakeholders Analysis
  
• Building Coalitions
  
• Building Effective Community Teams
  
• Recruiting and Sustaining Volunteers
  
• Getting the Most from Your Meetings

 JAMES F. KRILE is the director of the Blandin Community Leadership Program (BCLP). Since 1985, over four thousand people have taken part in this program, which includes a five-day residential retreat and two follow-up workshops. In an independent evaluation of the program, John F. Jones, PhD, of the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work described BCLP “as a model for training anywhere in the world.”