The community toolbox materials that appear below are designed to be reproduced by community groups. These toolboxes address a variety of issues to help groups work effectively and to assist with approaches to team projects and challenges. The toolboxes fall in four categories:
Community Program Tools
(also see articles and papers below)
All links below lead to PDF files.
Facilitation & Group Process Tools
Meeting Tools
Project Management Tools
Articles and papers
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From 1990 to 2013, Brushy Fork published a regional newsletter titled Mountain Promise. This publication:
If you have questions about back issues, please contact Brushy for at brushyfork@berea.edu.
All issues below are in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF).
| Topic | |
| Aging in Appalachia (Spring, 2004) | Download issue |
| Appalachia in Modern America (Summer, 1996) | Download issue |
| Associates Take the Lead During State Networking Conferences (Summer, 1993) | Download issue |
| Churches and Community Development (Winter, 1998) | Download issue |
| Citizen Activism in the Mountains (Summer, 2000) | Download issue |
| Collaboration (Summer, 1997) | Download issue |
| Cultural Tourism (Fall, 2000) | Download issue |
| Drugs in Appalachian Communities (Winter, 2004) | Download issue |
| Economy of Mountain Crafts (Fall, 2001) | Download issue |
| Energy in Appalachia (Spring, 2001) | Download issue |
| Entrepreneurship in Appalachia (Fall, 1997) | Download issue |
| Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (Winter, 2000) | Download issue |
| Five Years of Welfare Reform (Spring, 2002) | Download issue |
| Focus on: Dickenson County, VA (Spring, 1991) | Download issue |
| Focus on: Martin County, KY (Summer, 1991) | Download issue |
| Focus on: Wyoming County, WV (Spring, 1992) | Download issue |
| Food in Appalachia (Summer, 2001) | Download issue |
| Forestry and Secondary Wood Products (Fall/Winter 1996-97) | Download issue |
| Higher Education and Community Development (Fall, 1998) | Download issue |
| Housing in Appalachia (Winter, 2001) | Download issue |
| Local Government (Summer, 1995) | Download issue |
| Medicine in Appalachia (Summer, 2002) | Download issue |
| Migration in Appalachia (Winter, 2002) | Download issue |
| Music in Appalachia (Summer, 2004) | Download issue |
| Networks Make it Happen in the Region (Winter, 1993) | Download issue |
| Place-Based Approach Strengthens Economies (Winter, 2008) | Download issue |
| Policy and Rural Communities (Winter, 2003) | Download issue |
| Roads in Appalachia (Fall, 1999) | Download issue |
| Season of Growth for Brushy Fork Institute (Summer, 1990) | Download issue |
| State Networking Conferences Spring Ahead (Spring, 1993) | Download issue |
| Sustainable Agriculture (Winter/Spring, 1999) | Download issue |
| Sustainable Development (Spring, 1996) | Download issue |
| Telecommunications (Fall, 1995) | Download issue |
| The Road to Community: Let’s Merge (Spring, 2011) | Download issue |
| Transforming Lives, Transforming Communities (Spring, 2009) | Download issue |
| Water Quality (Spring, 2003) | Download issue |
| Welfare Reform (Spring, 1997) | Download issue |
| Women’s Leadership (Winter, 1996) | Download issue |
| Youth Issues (Spring, 1998) | Download issue |
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