Strong community partnerships and inclusion of diverse voices in project design and development can be a key to success developing local food systems. This page includes links to resources that support development of strong partnerships and inclusive and collaborative process.

• Collaboration and Community Team Building: Working with Community Teams
  Presentation by Warren Miller of Fountainworks, Inc. “First you create; then you sustain. Go slow to go fast.”
• Community Engagement Tools
  N.C. Cooperative Extension, Community Development Program
• Engaging Your Community Guides
  Natural Resources Leadership Institute, NC State University
  • Volume 3 – Collaborative Problem Solving
  • Volume 6 – Ways to Structure a Collaborative Process
• Local Food System Stakeholders for Community Engagement
  List of potential stakeholders and stakeholder organizations to consider involving in a community process building local food systems. This list was developed for and Incubator Farm Project, but is generalizeable to other local food system projects.
• Increasing Participation in your Program. Presentation from the 2015 NIFTI Incubator Farm Field School focused on key tools for increasing participation while maintaining program integrity.
• Building Successful Community Partnerships
  • What is Partnership?
  • Competencies for working in Community Partnerships & Diagnostics for Effective Governance
  • Community Partners Measurement Activity