title: Strategies for community-based organization capacity building: planning on a shoestring budget.
abstract: Community-based organizations often capacity build to successfully enable themselves to be adaptable and responsive to constantly changing environments. However, community-based organizations are stretched for time, staffing, and funding, and the added obligation of regularly performing management planning tools, such as strategic planning, needs assessments, program evaluations, or market demand forecasting, strain limited resources. Through case studies, this article illustrates how collaborations between universities and community-based organizations can result in the development of successful management planning tools through the use of geographic information systems and secondary resources. Such collaborations produced maximization of production and effectiveness in an environment characterized by limited resources.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas Medical School-Wichita, 1010 North Kansas, Wichita, KS 67214-3199, USA. rwettaha@kumc.edu
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wetta-Hall
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ablah
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oler-Manske
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Molgaard
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006285:Health Planning / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States