Resources and Publications
Cultivate your know-how with practical guides and tools for community development!
Sprout is a collection of resources to help create change in communities. You will find hands on, step-by-step, tools that have been developed and informed by community practitioners.
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| # | Documents | Downloads | Size KB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Digital Storytelling Inventory June 2010 - A guide to the various programs and resources for creating a digital story. Digital stories are a unique way to capture your community story, or personal experience and share it with others for learning. |
195 | 670.00 |
| 2 |
How to Understand the Cost of Living in Your Community January 2010 by Scott Graham A Guidebook on Conducting Affordability Studies. This guidebook discusses different ways of measuring poverty in Canada and describes how to conduct an affordability study for your community. by using this guide book, you will: acquire knowledge about different approaches to measuring poverty in canada understand the market basket measure methodology for conducting affordability studies develop skills to design and implement an affordability study for your community engage options for how to use the results of an affordability study to address issues of poverty and low income in your community. |
865 | 334.34 |
| 3 |
Building Bridges Together 1: Workbook Building Bridges is about planning for inter-cultural dialogue between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. The workbook outlines a three part process and contains worksheets and other tools for a relevant dialogue series. |
1854 | 459.72 |
| 4 |
Building Bridges Together 2: Resource Guide We provide an overview of the definition, dynamics and guiding principles for intercultural work between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in BC. |
2179 | 369.22 |
| 5 |
Tools for Action: A Resource Guide for Designing a Community Indicator Project Scott Graham, May 2008 In this publication we address questions about how to design and implement a CIP in your community, especially a CIP that is linked to the development of local action strategies. |
2207 | 535.79 |