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• Set direction for change - fine-tuning our aim o Hold world cafes. o Create culture of collaboration. o Form study committees and community forums. o Determine strategies for community investing. o Select trendbenders/leverage points/places to create long-term, sustainable impacts. o Determine return on investment for investments in the community and the costs of not investing. Implement change - making it last o Manage sense of urgency. o Choose the guiding taam(s), action teams. o Create operating structure/organization to continue to work on issues. o Determine how to meet long-term financial needs of the project. o Develop and implement action plans, including leading/lagging indicators. o Develop community indicators and dashboards. o Aggressively use change management principles. o Use 21 St Century communication. Some definitions for elements above: Civic Index - A key to realizing a community vision is to assess social capital and to determine what investments need to be made. Social capital is another name for skills, processes and relationships that exist in a community. The National Civic League's Civic Index helps to measure social capital. The index consists of 12 components that fall within four general categories. By addressing each of these 12 components of an essential "civic infrastructure," a community can conduct a self-assessment of its capacity to create positive change. The four general categories are desired future, community governance, working together as a community and strengthening the community's ability to solve problems. • Community plunge - A community plunge is an experiential journey into the important realities of the community. As a complement to data, meetings and plans, a plunge is time on the ground and face-to-face with the assets and challenges present at the grassroots level in the community. It's a tool that can help inform future decision-making, uncover assets, fine-tune current strategies and build strategic relationships far action. • Asset mapping - Includes locating the assets, skills and capacities of residents, citizens associations and local institutions. All too often, people have the tendency to approach problem-solving from a needs-driven point of view. In other words, they describe all the things that are wrong, that need fixing. They want to suture the afflicted. The net result is the affected population is being _1111-1.r