Resources

Here are some tools for strategy development:

• Charting a Course for Change: Advancing Education, Income and Health Through Collective Impact
  A roadmap of core community strategies to boost education, income and health, along with evidence-based implementation approaches experts believe will dramatically change the greatest number of lives and the most significant roles United Ways can play with their partners to drive those approaches.
• Charting a Course for Change in Education, Income and Health: Tools to Help you Navigate
  This toolkit brings together the latest reports, issue briefs, toolkits and online resources that may be most helpful as you start or scale-up your community change efforts.
• Education Research Overview
  Offers more about the national research, the strategies experts say work and some best practices United Ways and others are pursuing.
• Is This a Good Community Impact Strategy?
  Checklist to assess if your community impact strategy aims to to create population-level change and if it reflects local perspectives, local data, local conditions and local assets. Use the “Strengthening Strategies Worksheets” (for either existing strategies or if you are at the beginning of developing a strategy) to ensure your community is developing the most effective early grade reading proficiency strategies.
• Community Landscape Templates
  Use these two templates to discover what is already going on in your community around early grade reading proficiency.
  • Map Current Efforts
  • Map the foundational Quantitative Data