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CFT Tool2 MapCommunityAccess

This document provides instructions for mapping community assets in 3 steps: 1) Convene stakeholders to identify valued organizations and infrastructure in the community and mark them on a map. 2) Conduct outreach to organizations to ensure nothing is missing from the map. 3) Reconvene stakeholders to discuss the map and explore opportunities for partnerships or programming based on the assets. Examples of completed community asset maps are also provided.

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CFT Tool2 MapCommunityAccess

This document provides instructions for mapping community assets in 3 steps: 1) Convene stakeholders to identify valued organizations and infrastructure in the community and mark them on a map. 2) Conduct outreach to organizations to ensure nothing is missing from the map. 3) Reconvene stakeholders to discuss the map and explore opportunities for partnerships or programming based on the assets. Examples of completed community asset maps are also provided.

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TOOL 2 1 of 5

Map Community Assets

TIME COMMITMENT INTRODUCTION

4 – 6 hours
What community assets exist around your project?
PEOPLE

l Park organization staff


Learn about your neighbors and what they care about, to
l Community stakeholders
understand their perspective on existing organizations and
infrastructure that they value.
SUPPLIES

l Physical map of your area


Examining infrastructural racism and racist neighborhood
of impact. This map should disinvestment often leads to documenting only the negative effects
include streets, city blocks, and outcomes of these policies. With this tool we ask you to explore
social infrastructure, a community’s most valued and loved assets. This knowledge will
and anything else you
not only direct you toward new partnerships, it will also point you
deem necessary.
toward projects and programs already celebrated by the community.
l Horizontal surface (table) Ultimately, the goal should be to use your project, in collaboration
or vertical surface (poster
with local partners, to support and build from assets that historically
board, wall, easel)
marginalized communities have worked to create and have identified
l Materials for marking up
as important.
map (sticky notes, stickers)

l Pens, pencils, markers

High Line Network | Embedding Equity in Public Space | Tool 2: Map Community Assets
This tool is part of the Community First Toolkit, available at toolkit.highlinenetwork.org
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Map Community Assets

TIPS FOR USING THIS TOOL INSTRUCTIONS

l Gauge people’s awareness


and feelings about the PART 1
mapped assets through
community surveys, 1. Convene a working group of community stakeholders.
workshops, and
conversations.
2. Make a list of valued community-based organizations and
l Keep working group existing infrastructure within the boundaries of the map, with
meetings interactive.
input from park organization staff and community stakeholders.
Encourage those who
talk less to share their
Assets may include: social infrastructure/community-based
thoughts more. organizations (libraries, parks, pools, schools, hospitals,
community centers, gardens, places of worship), and
l If possible, invite board
members to join, making transportation (highways, public transit, rail lines).
this an opportunity to meet
community stakeholders. 3. Mark these organizations and transport modes on the map.
l Adapt this exercise to a
virtual platform so more
people can participate. PART 2

4. Conduct a round of outreach to all the community-based


organizations on the map. Schedule meetings to talk to them
about your mapping effort.

5. Ask these contacts if any organization or infrastructure is


missing. Take notes.

6. Reconvene your working group and share your findings.


Explore: Are there any underlying conflicts regarding the
assets? Are there evident opportunities for programming
or partnerships?

High Line Network | Embedding Equity in Public Space | Tool 2: Map Community Assets
This tool is part of the Community First Toolkit, available at toolkit.highlinenetwork.org
TOOL 2 3 of 5

Map Community Assets

COMMUNITY ASSETS MAP


EXAMPLE 1

New York: Community


organizations and assets
along the High Line

IMAGE CREDITS

Image by: Jose Esparza


& Emily Klein
Courtesy of Urban Design
and the Color Line, Harvard
Graduate School of Design

High Line Network | Embedding Equity in Public Space | Tool 2: Map Community Assets
This tool is part of the Community First Toolkit, available at toolkit.highlinenetwork.org
TOOL 2 4 of 5

Map Community Assets

COMMUNITY ASSETS MAP


EXAMPLE 2

St. Paul: Community


organizations and assets
along the riverfront

IMAGE CREDITS

Image by: Dylan Culp


& Gena Morgis
Courtesy of Urban Design
and the Color Line, Harvard
Graduate School of Design

High Line Network | Embedding Equity in Public Space | Tool 2: Map Community Assets
This tool is part of the Community First Toolkit, available at toolkit.highlinenetwork.org
TOOL 2 5 of 5

Map Community Assets

COMMUNITY ASSETS MAP


EXAMPLE 3

Austin: Cultural routes


and itineraries

IMAGE CREDITS

Image by: Don O’Keefe


Courtesy of Urban Design
and the Color Line, Harvard
Graduate School of Design

High Line Network | Embedding Equity in Public Space | Tool 2: Map Community Assets
This tool is part of the Community First Toolkit, available at toolkit.highlinenetwork.org

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