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Community Organizing, Leadership Literacy, and Action Building
Learn to strategize, prioritize, and build capacity to achieve your neighborhood or community group’s goals and vision with One Omaha’s free Community Organizing, Leadership Literacy, and Action Building (COLLAB) services. Receive tailored one-on-one support to fit the needs of your community.
We use asset-based community development principles to support groups including:
- Neighborhoods, neighborhood associations, and neighborhood alliances
- Community and grassroots organizers
- Small to large community-led groups
Available COLLAB services include:
- Visioning sessions
- Asset mapping/SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis
- Mission and vision development
- Strategic planning
- Project blueprinting
In addition to specialized attention during your COLLAB and continued support from One Omaha staff afterward, your group will receive:
- An action plan created by your group
- A timeline for implementation
- A list of resources and recommendations
- Introductions to community connections, including funding opportunities
- A final report to use as a strategic, sustainability, and succession plan
Visioning Session
Asset Mapping/SWOT Analysis
Mission & Vision Development
Strategic Planning
Project Blueprinting
Visioning Session
Visioning sessions create a short-term vision for a specific grant project.
What to expect: Asset mapping, identification of strengths and weaknesses, identification of group goals, project idea brainstorm, layout of short-term project ideas, grant suggestions for project implementation, and connections to other resources for project success
Asset Mapping/SWOT Analysis
This is best for large groups that want to get to a consensus about how folks feel about an area. Can be used as the first step before a visioning session, or strategic planning.
What to expect: Asset mapping, identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; grant suggestions for possible project ideas; connections to other resources
Mission & Vision Development
This session facilitates a group in coming to a consensus on their mission/vision.
What to expect: Organizational goal brainstorm, exploration of the differences between a mission and a vision, organizational tagline brainstorm based on goals, 3-5 mission and vision statement suggestions, connections to resources that can help to achieve group goals
Strategic Planning
This session creates long-term visioning for long-term organizational goals.
What to expect: Asset mapping, SWOT analysis, brainstorm goals and project ideas to reach goals, layout of goals and project timelines, connection to resources and funding options, identification of 3-5 year goals, and generation of 3-5 longer-term grant ideas set on a timeline
Project Blueprinting
This is best for a group that already has an idea of what projects they would like to do, but needs help to break them down into smaller, more manageable pieces. This can be organized as a follow up to a visioning session.
What to expect: Facilitation to think through large project ideas and break them down into smaller projects, identification of funding, creation of a project timeline, connection to resources, and recommendations of techniques to grow capacity and leadership through project implementation
Omaha Neighborhood Grants Program Assistance
The Omaha Community Foundation’s Omaha Neighborhood Grants Program (ONGP) is a community-building resource available in Omaha.
One Omaha is available to help neighborhood groups through the grant writing process. Learn more about our ONGP services.
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