Video 7: Community Based Strategy

• Chapter PowerPoint
• Activity #7 – Community Based Strategy
• Activity #8 – Community Involvement

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• Hello, and welcome to the 2025 ANA Pre-Application Training. This is video six, Community Based Strategy.
• There are two elements in the NOFO pertaining to community based strategy. Element seven asks you to clearly demonstrate a connection to the community to be served, including the ability to directly work with project participants or beneficiaries. To fully address this section, highlight all of the amazing work that you've done. You'll want to include a summary and a working history of any projects, programs, or departments' special initiatives. Anything that you've done to support your community will be included in this section. You'll also want to highlight relevant services or programs in addition to highlighting that you have the ability to work with the project participants or beneficiaries.
• The first activity for this section, again, asks you to share what experience your organization has working with your community, and then also what are those past experiences and those past programs that you have working with the population or the beneficiaries.
• The next element for this section is element eight. It asks you to describe how the community was involved in identifying the need for the project and how their feedback was incorporated into the project design.
• As a reminder, ANA funds community-led projects. They want to see that the community was involved in not only identifying the need for the project, but also that they provided insight and feedback, which fed into the design of your project and really helped direct and guide things. To fully flesh out this section, you want to first identify how were they involved in the need for the project. This could be interviews, surveys, focus groups, community meetings. Any effort of engagement that took place will be spoken to in this section.
• Also, you're going to highlight how the feedback and the results of those meetings were fed into the design of your project. What guidance and advice did your Tribal members have for you, and then how did you use that information to design the overall project? Lastly, reference and include any supporting documents of these engagements, meeting minutes, sign-in sheets, summary of surveys, summary of the meetings. Anything documenting these instances should be referenced and included in your application.
• This table could be a good starting place for organizing these efforts with your community. You'll want to include, again, what method of community input took place, focus groups, surveys, community meetings. Which groups were a part of those meetings or that input? Was it community members? Was it subsets of the community, such as the Elders or youth? You'll specify that here. What processes were used for that involvement? And here is where you summarize what the engagement was. Was it interviews? Was it surveys? And then lastly, you'll want to identify what types of documentation is attached to your application to support the feedback and the results from these meetings.
• A word of advice with your supporting documents. If you are going to be referencing surveys, please do not include all of the individual survey results in your application. Provide a summary and include a blank template of the survey. I just caution you not to include all of the results, as that could impact your page count.
• Here's an example of a possible community involvement response for [inaudible 00:04:40]. In this example, you'll see that they discussed what types of engagement took place, the populations that were engaged. They referenced through the appendices which supporting documentation was captured to keep track of those engagements, and then also identifying how the results of those instances really fed into the design of the project.
• For the activity for this section, we're going to have you complete a similar table to the one we just discussed. Here, you'll identify what engagements either took place or will take place, who will participate or did participate in those instances, how did this inform your project design? And then what's the supporting documentation that you're going to provide of those instances working with your community and engaging them?