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Coastal Bend
Community Empowerment
501(c)3 organization
Facilitating the Self-Development of Communities
Building the capacity of neighborhoods and communities
to discover what matters to them and to attain it together.
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Coaching agencies and organizations
to build the capacity of neighborhoods and communities.
NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS OR COMMUNITY GROUP MEMBERS:
What do you love about your community?
What is one thing you would change if you could?
Would you be willing to join with others to make a difference?
Who do you know who feels as strongly as you do about it?
Would you like training or coaching to build the capacity of your community?
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"Give a man a fish, you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Teach a community how to fish together, they will reclaim their pond."
SERVICE AGENCIES OR ORGANIZATIONS:
Do you think community members play an important role in a community’s well-being?
Do you have an effective community engagement strategy that is working for you?
How are communities and community members engaged in the work you are doing?
Would you like training or coaching to build the capacity of a community to thrive?
Contact CBCE
HOW WE BUILD
Community Capacity
We coach and train communities in these skills:
LISTENING & DISCOVERING
Listening one person, one block at a time to discover what their neighbors care about and what gifts they can deploy to attain it together.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Identifying community
ACTION TEAM FORMATION
Organizing citizens around passions and strengths for improving communities.
PARTNER DEVELOPMENT
Connecting communities with outside partners to help with initiatives which the citizens cannot do by or for themselves.
HOW WE EMPOWER ORGANIZATIONS
to Build Community Capacity
CONCEPT TRAINING
A basic understanding of Asset Based Community Development, including:
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A strategy to address the seven basic needs found in every community: physical, vocational, environmental, social/emotional, the need for power and control, the need for collective voice, and psycho-spiritual needs.
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​The difference between relief, individual betterment, and community development approaches and when each is most appropriate.
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How approaches that “do for” a community can undermine an empowerment effort, and how to shift to a “do with” approach.
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How to narrowing the scope of the development effort to a specific geographically defined group, neighborhood or sub-group of a school or neighborhood.
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A basic understanding of the six types of assets found in every neighborhood: individuals, associations, institutions, physical environment, methods of exchange, and culture. The roles each plays in a development effort.
SKILLS COACHING
An overview of the four capacity building processes: Listening, Leadership Development, Team Building, and Partnership Development – specifically:
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- How to conduct a listening project to discover the hopes, dreams, gifts and talents of the community.
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​The three components of an effective leadership development process: one-on-one coaching, peer to peer communities of practice, and on-going training through learning cohorts.
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The four CARE practices for effective team building: create safe space, ask self-awakening questions, reflect collectively, and enact the next faithful step.
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How to build partnerships that can help sustain a community-defined, constituent-driven community development effort.