The mission of the Community Tool Box is to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources.    Our vision is of people—locally and globally—taking action together to change conditions that affect their lives.  The purpose of the Community Tool Box is to build capacity for this work—to make it easier for people to bring   about change and improvement in their communities.  The CTB connects people with resources for learning the many skills required for this work and applying this knowledge in diverse cultures and contexts.    The Community Tool Box was created to help leaders bring about the changes they envision. While the power of one is tremendous, that one needs help. He or she needs the knowledge, information, and tools to bring about those changes. The CTB was developed to fill that gap and help thoughtful, informed citizens make their communities what they dream they can be.    The Tool Box provides over 7,000 pages of practical information to support out work in promoting community health and development.  Features of the CTB include:

• Learning a skill
• Developing Core Competencies
• Solving Problems
• Ask an advisor (a question related to your community work or a general question)
• Links to other online resources

Check us out at http://ctb.ku.edu/