Getting Started

Helpful resources to aid in starting a coalition


A Model for Getting Started

A Model for Getting Started

The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. Their model has five steps: access, plan, act, evaluate, and sustain.
Community Toolbox

Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide

Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide

This step-by-step guide to coalition building from The Prevention Institute helps partnerships launch and stabilize successfully. It supports advocates and practitioners in every aspect of the process-from determining the appropriateness of a coalition to selecting members, defining key elements, maintaining vitality, and conducting ongoing evaluations.
Prevention Institute

Coalitions Network Listserv

Coalitions Network Listserv

Join the discussion listserv where coalition members can pose questions, request help, make announcements, and share resources. Moderated by Immunize.org. To join the listserv, send your request to info@immunizationcoalitions.orgImmunization Coalitions Network

Sustainability Planning Guide for Health Communities

Sustainability Planning Guide for Health Communities

The Guide is a synthesis of science and practice-based evidence designed to help coalitions, public health professionals, and other community stake holders develop, implement, and evaluate a successful sustainability plan. It provides a process for sustaining policy strategies and related activities, introduce various approaches to sustainability, and demonstrate sustainability planning in action with real-life examples.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011

Planning for Change--A Coalition Building Technical Assistance System

Planning for Change–A Coalition Building Technical Assistance System

A 23-page paper that provides much useful information about coalition building basics, including strategic planning, dealing with change, and group management techniques.
Sheila Sherow, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy, Penn State University, and JoAnn Weinberger Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Funded by the Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education PA Department of Education.