Sustain

In the Sustain stage, the focus is on reflection, improvement and making connections so your work will last. In this stage and each of the four stages, grassroots organizations and their leaders have found that there are 5 guiding principles that are important to keep in mind. Click on each guiding principle to find resources related to it.

1. Foster Youth-Adult Partnerships
2. Mobilize Community Assets
3. Tap into Individual Gifts
4. Build Teamwork
5. Reflect and Learn

Below we list tools and activities for each of the five guiding principles within the Sustain stage.

1. Foster Youth-Adult Partnerships
   • Collaboration: A Key to Sustaining Success
   • Making the Case for Youth-Adult Partnerships
   • Gifts BINGO
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2. Mobilize Community Assets
   • My Habits of Giving
   • How Much Would You Give?
   • What is Community Organizing?
   • Sharing Stories and Introducing Your Community to Others
   • Planning a Gathering of Community-Based Organizations
   • Creating a Communications Plan
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3. Tap into Individual Gifts
   • Working With More Than One Person
   • Philanthropy in American History
   • What Do You Make of the Research?
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4. Build Teamwork
   • Cycles of Community Work
   • Charting Decision Making and Power Sharing
   • Maintaining Our Philanthropic Partnership
   • Action Planning
   • Transitions in the Organizing Team
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5. Reflect and Learn
   • Can the Balance of Power Change?
   • P.A.R.T.N.E.R.
   • Intergenerational Sharing
   • Analyzing Evaluation Results
   • Communicating Evaluation Results
   • Growth Planning
   • Most Significant Change
   • Photovoices
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