This document discusses using an approach called Tribal Alchemy to build community capacity in Southwest Florida. Tribal Alchemy focuses on seeing issues, naming them, engaging with them, and transforming them. It involves practices like attending to community needs, exploring issues, and adapting to change. The document outlines how Tribal Alchemy has been applied through donor roundtables, leadership development, and evaluation to build the capacity of tribes focused on early education, empowerment, education, animal welfare, and more. Preliminary outcomes are discussed and next steps proposed.

1. Finding Gold in Southwest
Florida - Using Tribal Alchemy
for Regional Community
Capacity Building
Cindy Banyai, Ph.D.
Principal, Banyai Evaluation & Consulting
Dave FLEMING, DM
Strategic Designer/Leader Coach/Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
College of Medicine

2. Prac-ademics
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3. Tribal Alchemy brings focus on
community capacity building
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4. Community Capacity
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6. Community Agents
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7. Community Actions
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8. Community Capacity Attributes - SCORE
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9. Contextual Influences
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10. Community Capacity Building
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11. Tribal Alchemy
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13. See It
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14. Name it
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15. Engage It
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16. Transform It
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17. The Practices
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18. Attend Banyai & Fleming, CDS 2014

19. Explore
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21. Adapt
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22. Tribal Alchemy as a
Community Capacity Building
Intervention
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24. Donor Round Tables
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26. Issue-based Round Tables
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28. Leadership and Management
Development of Grantee
Tribes
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29. The Tribes
Early Education Tribe
Empowerment Tribe
Education Tribe
Animal Welfare Tribe
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30. Empowerment Evaluation
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34. Compassionate Shark Tank
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35. Foundation Policy Structure and
Evaluation Development

37. What we know so far….
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38. Outcomes
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39. Next steps
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40. Please feel free to contact us for more information –
Cindy Banyai – Cindy@BanyaiConsulting.com
Dave Fleming - dave@davefleming.org
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41. References
• Banyai, Cindy. 2011. Community Capacity and Development: New
Approaches to Governance and Evaluation. Lambert Academic
Publishing. Berlin.
• Chaskin, Robert J., Brown, Prudence, Venkatesh, Sudhir, and Vidal,
Avis. 2001. Building Community Capacity. New York: Aldine De
Gruyter.
• McMillan, David W., & George, David M. Chavis. (1986). “Sense of
Community: a definition and theory.” Journal of Community
Psychology, 14: 6-–23.
• Miyoshi, Koichi & Stenning, Naomi. 2008. “Designing Participatory
Evaluation for Community Capacity Development: A Theory-driven
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