Pitch a Project
Introduction
Identify a problem in your community and find resources to develop a solution.
Identify a Problem
| Resource | Source |
|---|---|
| Define and analyze a problem | Center for Community Health and Development at University of Kansas |
| Identify root causes of a problem | Center for Community Health and Development at University of Kansas |
| Identify the root cause (5 Whys Tool) | Minnesota Department of Public Health |
Create a Solution
| Resource | Source |
|---|---|
| Find collaborators | |
| Create a neighborhood action group | Center for Neighborhood Technology |
| We Build Progress Guide to Neighborhood Organizing | We Build Progress |
| Community engagement principles | Elevated Chicago |
| Toolkits | |
| Create an elevator pitch | Congress for the New Urbanism |
| Sustainability Leadership training and funding | Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum |
| Chicago Region Trees Initiative Request for Proposals toolkit | Morton Arboretum |
| Social Determinants of Health & Place Toolkit | Healthy Regions and Policies Lab at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Resisting Data Centers Toolkit | Media Justice |
| Community Engagement inField Kit | Elevated Chicago |
| Root Cause Analysis Toolkit | Minnesota Department of Public Health |
| Black Researchers Collective Community Education and Action Research | Black Researchers Collective |
Submit an Idea
| Resource | Source |
|---|---|
| Depave Chicago Propose a Project | Depave Chicago |
| Chicago Park District participatory budgeting | Chicago Park District |
| Ward-based participatory budgeting | Center for Neighborhood Technology |
Find Funding
| Resource | Source |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood Grants Initiative | Habitat for Humanity Chicago |
| Community Project Funding | Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| Chicago Climate Infrastructure Projects | City of Chicago |
| Green Infrastructure Partnership | Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) |
| Chicago Community Growers Program | City of Chicago |
| CACHET Pilot Project Proposal | Chicago Center for Health and the Environment (CACHET) |