How to Build Community Projects

How to Build Community Projects

This is a complex course on the concept of developing community projects.

Part #1 focuses on building your foundation. We look at perspectives, roles, broader understanding of your engagement.
In terms of the learning experience, this part supports you to finding answers concerning:

1. WHY do you want to build a community project?

2. WHAT is the field you might activate in or collaborate with?

3. WHAT are the roles in a project and what type of mentality & skills does each one require?

4. Commonly overlooked aspects by community activists: personal growth, values, deal-breakers, and agendas (yours vs. others).
   

Part #2 focuses on explaining the actual structure of a project (from an administrative perspective).
In terms of a learning experience, this part offers concrete insights into:

1. Building the project: people, commitment, how to let other people in.

2. Milestones: what they are, insights into building them sustainably, and a working example.

3. Step by step project presentation - your first connection to obtaining partners.

4. A perspective on legal aspects and working with law enforcers (several foundational principles).

   
   

Part #3 focuses on teambuilding. In terms of a learning experience, it offers tools & insights concerning:

1. What are the key people in the project, what their work means, what their skills and background should be

2. Three videos about informal relationships, difficult team dynamics and a perspective on ethics when it comes to community projects.

Part #4 focuses on communication. In terms of a learning experience, it offers concrete working documents and step-by-step explanations concerning:

1. The communication strategy

2. The creative brief

Part #5 focuses on fundraising. In terms of a learning experience, it offers both working documents as well as experience-based recommendations for a healthy community project

1. Downloadable and editable work documents

2. Real cases from my years of experience in community projects

Part #6. focuses on legal aspects, working with public administration & an introduction into logistics. In terms of the learning experience, it offers both working documents as well as shared knowledge based on concrete community projects experiences.

Part #7 focuses on running the actual events. In terms of the learning experience, it offers both working documents as well as shared knowledge based on concrete past experience.

1. Preparing for the event day

2. Running the actual day

3. After the event/action day.

Part# 8, the closure, contains not just a goodbye but also a recommendation from me when building community projects.

This course is built from:

• 33 content videos
  (ranging from 20 to 30 minutes in length; each with an executive summary at the beginning)

• Downloadable & editable documents
  (so that you have concrete documents to begin with)

• Professional suggestions from me
  (in 16+ years of activity I've been through professional challenge, crises, breakdowns, start overs, etc.)

  
  

  
  

Note! This course is intended as a structured discussion and practice curriculum for building community projects. If you seek a certification, please remember this is not it. This is a knowledge shared and concrete guideline for making your projects happen.

Change the world through community projects.

Practical guidance for social & mass civic engagement activists.

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What you will learn

• Start a community project
• Improve an existing community project
• Get in-depth insights into specific areas of community projects

Rating: 4.5

Level: All Levels

Duration: 9.5 hours

Instructor: Liana Buzea, Environmental Activist