Congratulations on your new church planting toolkit! The Community Needs Assessment Toolkit will help you build a foundation while developing your insights into your target population.

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Community Needs Assessment Leader's Kit:

A "Needs Assessment" is a church planting tool that can dramatically increase your launch effectiveness. A volunteer team, or just the planter and their spouse, can complete this process with dramatic outcomes for the new church.

You can expect to multiply the number of relationships and contacts before your launch date, get deeper insights into the heart of the local culture, and much more!

The toolkit includes a trainer's manual, PowerPoint files, forms, templates, and 5 team manuals.

Purchase the Needs Assessment Leader's Kit, Team Manuals and other resources here >

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Center for Community Impact Research:

CCIR offers research support for the Community Needs Assessments using the Compassion by Design model. Your team can receive Associate Research status under CCIR, listing you as an official participatory on the research site, and giving you credibility in your neighborhoods with rights to the CCIR name and logo on your needs assessment information.

CCIR is located in Cleveland TN, under the auspices of EPPC, a national research non-profit. Compassion by Design recommends this step as a way to improve your needs assessment effort and develop additional community credibility.

You can sign up directly with CCIR at www.cciresearch.org.

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Publish Your Materials

Use our designer publishing templates. Compassion by Design will format and edit your community needs assessment report using a professional template like the one to the left.  This two page report can be printed and/or provided as a web download in a glossy “magazine style” report that is the best way to share results with the community. Contact us for more information >

Get your own website! Having a clean, informative website can be extremely valuable for your community project. How you present yourself online should be as professional as your organization wants to perceive itself to be. Go to the Nonprofit Expressions website for more information >

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Web-Based Data Entry

One way to make your needs assessment more effective is by signing up for web-based data entry. Compassion by Design will set your data entry up so that those providing support can simply enter what you have collected into a web-site, and when finished receive a data and graphic report of the results. You can select this option alone, or choose this with the e-support package which includes CCIR membership at a reduced rate. Contact us for more information >