Toolkit: Building Trust Through Understanding Community Needs

Toolkit discusses the benefits of conducting a community needs assessment in order to gauge a community's perception of your organization's work and identify challenges they are facing. The toolkit, titled "Building Trust Through Need & Engagement," highlights the steps for conducting a community needs assessment, including ways to identify your target audience, methods to incentivize participation, and how to leverage partners to increase awareness of your assessment. It also identifies ways to use social media and other technology to develop and distribute the assessment.