How to Identify the Real Problem in Your Community
We recently spoke to Felicity Farmer about the complexity of community issues and how to identify the real problem at the heart of many moving parts.
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Understanding Collective Trauma and Helping Your Community Heal
With a growing body of research into collective trauma and a continuation of natural and social disasters, it’s important for community engagement experts to understand the impact these events have had on us collectively and help bring people together again.
Overcome Opposition and Shape the Community Engagement Narrative
At times, people with public-sector missions fear that opposition could slow down their progress. Discover how to work with, rather than against people with a “not in my backyard” mentality.
How to Overcome Common Barriers to Community Engagement
Certain community members can be under-represented in decision-making. Here’s how you can overcome the most common participation barriers and instantly increase the accessibility of your engagement efforts.
5 Ways to Encourage Online Community Engagement in Your Team
Here are five talking points that can encourage your team to see community engagement in a new light and create space for it in their plans.
Why Community Engagement is a Skills Requirement for Architects
A growing number of architects are turning to community engagement to create spaces that connect people. We explore how community engagement enhances the design process and improves outcomes for architects and the public.
How Agile Methodologies Can Transform Community Engagement
Participatory decision-making can be complex to navigate. Discover how agile engagement methodologies can help you find the right balance.
How to Design Your Community Engagement Landing Page
Having a well-designed, on-brand engagement page is important. With the right design elements in place, it can become an informative and compelling space for your community.
31 Ways To Avoid Survey Fatigue in Your Community
If your community is constantly asked for feedback and starts to suffer from survey fatigue, response rates and the quality of insights can deteriorate. Here’s 31 ways to help combat survey fatigue.
Make the Most of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal with Civic Engagement
To optimize your project delivery you need to include mechanisms for sharing trusted information with proactive civic engagement.
Top 5 Gifts for Your Community Engagement Team
Do you work in community engagement? Tick. Do you enjoy gifts? Tick (who doesn’t). Well, to be honest, that’s all you need to get some joy from this festive round-up of practical gifts.
How To Create Climate Change Solutions With Your Community
We need rapid innovation and intensive collaboration to steer the ship towards decarbonization. Here are three ways you can activate your community and create climate solutions together.
Should We Use Compensation to Increase Public Participation?
The idea of using compensation to enhance public participation is gaining momentum. We have reached out to a range of community engagement experts to discuss their thoughts.
How to Promote Your Online Community Engagement Site
Nailing promotion is a number one priority in any community engagement initiative. After all, who is going to give you feedback if no one knows what you’re working on?
How to Build Trust Through Community Engagement
Governments and institutions need people to trust that they will make good decisions. Without trust, they don’t have the power to make productive changes for the community. Here are three ways you can build trust through community engagement.
Enhanced Survey Personalization for Increased Community Engagement
Capturing data from your community or stakeholders is essential. But, to capture feedback that is actionable and substantial, you need to ask the right questions.
The Future of Community Engagement
Almost every facet of society as we know it has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing planners to adapt their stakeholder engagement strategies in order to fulfil positive outcomes for communities.
Engage Your Community in Developing Plans for Use of American Rescue Plan Funds
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way Local and State Governments informed, engaged and collaborated with their communities, rapidly shifting their public participation strategies to online.
Engaging First Nation Communities
As professionals in public participation, you’re aware of the intricacies involved with making sure your communities are heard and all voices have the opportunity to participate.
Identifying Stakeholder Groups
The first step in any engagement consultation is to identify your stakeholders. The best way to do this is to reach out to various groups that will have input on who these stakeholders should be.
Understanding How Lack of Trust in Government Affects Community Engagement
There will not only be opportunities for us to learn more about the communities but, also where there might be some larger issues at hand that might prevent you from getting meaningful feedback and interactions.
Reach Diverse Stakeholder Groups in Your Engagement Project
Although all engagement consultations come with their own unique set of challenges, one of the hardest things one can do is to make sure we’re able to grasp input from a variety of people.
Voices in Community Engagement: Nina Rinaldi with Shoal Creek Conservancy
This interview is the first in a series of interviews called Voices in Community Engagement, where we speak with project leaders who have had successful engagement and outreach efforts.
IAP2 2020 Conference – What We Learned
This year, the IAP2 North American Conference was held virtually due to the global pandemic. As sponsors of the event, we loved hearing the insights and advice from engagement experts across a range of industries.
