CCIR

The Center for Community Impact Research partners with social innovators to facilitate effective community needs assessments. The Compassion by Design Community Needs Assessment materials are a common source for training and effective needs assessment process among CCIR participants. Additional information is available by visiting the CCIR website.  Research fees are facilitated by Compassion by Design click here. Examples of other local needs assessment can also be found on this site.  An excerpt from the CCIR mission follows:

The Center for Community Impact Research supports the work of social innovators and collaborations across traditional service sector boundaries in discovering and responding to social need with an asset perspective.

  • Community Needs Assessments
  • Asset and Needs Mapping
  • Program Planning and Feasibility
  • Collaborative Action Research

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  • Romans 10:14

    But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it?

Kits for Churches

The reFOCUS Community Needs Assessment Kit is for Externally Focused Churches and Churches wanting to become Missional.
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Compassion by Design Blog

Read about existing churches using the Needs Assessment Process to strengthen their focus and build their communities.
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