THE COMMUNITY POWER TOOLKIT (CPT)

This training package includes three action-oriented trainings for inclusive community organizing.  

 

The three training sessions offered in this toolkit can be taken individually or bundled. 

We strongly recommend taking our EQUITABLE ENGAGEMENT ESSENTIALS BUNDLE (EEE) to gain foundational knowledge that will be built on in this toolkit.

  1. Equity In Action: Practical Strategies for Community Engagement (6 hours)

  2. Community Power: Creating an Equitable Development Scorecard (2 hours) 

  3. Equitably Engaging the Latinx Community (2 hours)

This is the training package your organization has been waiting for! Informed by more than 15 years of direct community organizing experience, VACV staff has put these training sessions together so institutions can acquire actionable and effective tools to share power with historically marginalized communities. These sessions provide real-world examples of on-the-ground organizing to work in the community you’re in.  In the first training, you’ll learn how to do engagement work, from one-to-ones to setting up community-led working groups. In the second training, you’ll learn how to organize around a specific issue through the lens of creating an Equitable Development Scorecard, a tool designed by neighbors to hold developers accountable to the community’s wants and needs. In the third training, you’ll learn what it really takes to engage with neighbors different from yourself, and set up inclusive spaces.

In addition, these training sessions will be customized to the organization’s vision for inclusion. The strategies and principles shared throughout these sessions can be translated to organizing your neighbors around topics that matter to their communities

TIME COMMITTMENT + COST -

Bundled - 3 trainings (10 hours) $10,000

Equity In Action: Practical Strategies for Community Engagement (6 hours) $5,000

Community Power: Creating an Equitable Development Scorecard (2 hours) $2,500

Equitably Engaging the Latinx Community (2 hours) $2,500  

See the detailed descriptions each training in the CPT bundle below.

Equity In Action: Practical Strategies for Community Engagement (6 hours)

  • VACV will equip participants with practical strategies for community engagement & organizing. 

    • In this training we will share -

      • How to perform one-to-ones, a community engagement tool used to build genuine relationships

      • Conduct equitable community surveys, and put impact before intent

      • Learn how to build representative tables both inside their organization and with community member

      • How to share power with community members. 

Community Power: Creating an Equitable Development Scorecard (2 hours)

  • VAVC offers leaders a simple framework to engage community members around creating an Equitable Development Scorecard in conjunction with their neighbors. As new developments come to Richmond, the risk of gentrification and displacement of our historically marginalized neighbors increases. Furthermore, it always feels like communities are the last to know about, or have a say in, these new developments. There is a better path forward.

  • Enter the Equitable Development Scorecard, a community-led approach to hold developers and the city accountable to neighbors' priorities for their natural and built environments.

    • In this training, we will share - 

      • How we used our Community Voice Process to engage with neighbors to create the scorecard

      • Provide examples of development categories to be scored

      • Provide strategies on how to bring neighbors together so the community can build its own Scorecard.

      • How to equitably make decisions, and engage people of color and other marginalized groups

Equitably Engaging the Latinx Community  (2hours)

  • VACV is proud to work with organizations to deepen their understanding of the Latinx culture and identity, while addressing common challenges and opportunities for engagement. 

    •  In this training, we will share -

      • VACV-specific method for community engagement

      • Provide tools and context on best practices to center the Latinx community and to engage them in a sustainable way

      • Ways to share power with the Latinx community

      • Amplify their voices and ensure long-term, meaningful participation so programs can reflect the true needs and dreams they have for their lives