####Chapter 6.1: Community Capacity Toolkit
When determining your city’s engagement strategy, it is important to think broadly about whom you can turn to for help with engagement, understand what your available resources are, and incorporate your community’s capacity into the strategy. The following is a checklist to assist you in answering these questions.
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To whom can we look for help with engagement?
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Are there established public-private partnerships or governmental organizations doing this work with whom we could connect?
- Map of Administration Community-Based Initiatives
- Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)
- Police Data Initiative
- OMB Place
- TechHire
- Promise Zone
- Climate Action Champions
- My Brother's Keeper
- Strong Cities Strong Communities (SC2)
- Resilience AmeriCorps
- The Opportunity Project
- US Public Participation Playbook
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Are there established nonprofits doing this work with whom we could connect?
- Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities
- Next Century Cities
- MacArthur Foundation’s Metro Lab Program
- Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities
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Are there other organizations doing this work with whom we could connect?
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What are our available resources?
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Are there training programs that are easily accessible to us?
- Bento
- Code Academy
- Coursera
- edX
- General Assembly
- Professional organization courses
- Academic courses
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What resources are available through our library system?
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What resources are available through our local academic institutions?
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What is our community’s capacity?
- Are there local groups meeting already who would benefit from our city’s data or could inform our city’s engagement strategy?
- Civic tech groups (e.g., Meetups, Women Who Code, Code for America Brigades, etc.)
- Academic organizations or universities
- Advocacy groups
- Are there local groups meeting already who would benefit from our city’s data or could inform our city’s engagement strategy?