Community Needs Assessment Resources

Here are some resources to help develop your agency’s community needs assessment.

- Demographic Resources
- Advancing Self-Sufficiency
- Tools to Support CAA Community Needs Assessments
- Examples of CAA Needs Assessment Reports

Demographic Resources

Find data from many useful sources with this list of Demographic Resources to assist with community needs assessments and grant proposals.

Advancing Self-Sufficiency

There are a number of tools that can be used to demonstrate what it takes for families to achieve economic self-sufficiency in your area.  In May, the Virtual CAP news feed featured Measuring Poverty in the United States that included links to various basic family budget / self-sufficiency calculators to help you present data differentiating between federally defined poverty income and actual family self-sufficiency levels.

Tools to Support CAA Community Needs Assessments

Comprehensive Community Needs Assessment Template from the Missouri Association for Community Action

What’s In a Needs Assessment? – Gathering and Using Qualitative and Quantitative Data (PowerPoint) from the National ROMA Peer-to-Peer Training Network

Examples for Community Needs Assessment formats from State CSBG Offices

• Standardized CSBG Needs Assessment (2005) – Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
• CSBG Needs Assessment – Georgia Department of Human Resources
• CSBG Needs Assessment Forms – Louisiana Department of Labor

Find more on Virtual CAP:  Community Needs Assessment Resources

Examples of CAA Needs Assessment Reports

A variety of CAA Needs Assessment Reports are available on Virtual CAP:  Examples of CAA Community Needs Assessment Reports.  These include a number of Reports with Self-Sufficiency Data and over 30 other examples of needs assessment reports.

SEND US your most recent community assessment report and we’ll add it to the list.