Coalition Effectiveness Inventory (CEI)
A diagnostic checklist for coalition staff and key leaders to assess coalition effectiveness.
Community Tool Box - Toolkits
Community Toolbox is a great resource with interactive tools related to community organizing and community development, ranging from creating and maintaining a coalition all the way to sustaining a coalition and everything in-between.
Hunger and Poverty Solutions for the Faith Community
This guide was designed to connect volunteers with potential volunteer opportunities in our community. Many times people are willing to volunteer, but just do not know how or where they are needed. This template can support the design of a similar tool for your community.
Hunger Solutions for the Faith Community
In this guide are tested, effective solutions to the problem of hunger that your congregation can implement. These solutions take advantage of existing programs and resources in the community and can each have a substantial impact on hunger.
Harvesting and Selling: A Guide for New, Small Urban Producers
This guide is aimed at those interested in selling locally grown food items at area farmers markets. Although written by and for Dallas area producers, much of the information is generic (especially for Texas).
Guide to Getting Started: Urban Agriculture in Dallas
This guide provides best practices for growing food in an urban environment and topics to consider as you are putting together an urban agriculture project.
Eating Well is a SNAP! Program Guide
This booklet provides details on the Eating Well is a SNAP! program created by the Senior SNAP Access Task Force (in English and Spanish).
2018 Senior Hunger Assessment Report
The Senior Hunger Action Team conducted a survey and focus groups in the fall of 2018 to better understand the challenges seniors in Dallas face in accessing healthy food. The responses from over 1600 seniors are informing efforts to craft additional effective strategies to reduce senior hunger.
2015 Senior Hunger Action Team Report
This report covers the landscape of senior hunger in Dallas, senior SNAP access, senior meals programs, goals and strategies and a Call to Action.
Back Pack Food Program Guide
Brief guide/check list on how to implement a Back Pack Food program.
Hunger Free Community Coalition Rapid-Response Assessment and Action Tool
This tool provides guidance to coalitions on how to quickly assess the resources and needs ofyour community during a crisis, allowing you to more effectively identify where your coalition can be most impactful in moving to action. It will walk you through a simple process of identifying needs and resources, creating an action plan and moving to implementation.
OST/South Union Neighborhood Food Access Assessment
An example of a simple neighborhood food access assessment.
Story Map: Asset Based Community Assessment of Bastrop County
This story map reflects the hard work of over 1 year of conversations, building community, research, observations, mapping, data crunching and editing. It highlights current assets and challenges Bastrop County faces in being able to ensure no one goes hungry.
Community Voices: Research on Food Insecurity in Bastrop County
The coalition hosted community listening sessions across the county to hear directly from people who have lived experience with food hardship. This report provies a summary of the project, the results, and recommendations.
Toolkit for Privately-Funded Summer Meal Programs
Discover the steps necessary to create a successful privately funded summer meal program. It is a guide that provides important strategies and considerations for starting the program, including examples for each of the steps as a way to get you started as you brainstorm and let your creativity shape the program that best fits the needs of the children you will serve in your community.