Welcome to the Plans and Tools Bank, where you can find a range of free plans and tools that your community group can use to save you time and money when putting in place a project or program.

We hope you will help to contribute to the bank's growth.

Plans and Tools

Book a Brain Initiative

Description: In essence, the Book a Brain initiative is a volunteer community based initiative that aims to provide local individuals or groups with access to the knowledge of other knowledgeable and experienced voluntary community residents to assist them in the development of projects (activities, services or events) that will be of benefit to the wider local community. Projects could include: festivals (youth, art, writing), awareness raising (environment, caring, health), community care (group self-help, practical support), and sharing (community gardens, cooperatives).

Contributed by: Book a Brain Advisory Group, Maleny Branch Library

Date: September, 2008

Book a Brain General Info Sheet - how to set up a Book a Brain initiative in your community (Word 97)
Info Sheet for Potential Applicants (Word 97)
Info Sheet for Potential 'Brains' (Word 97)
Offer of Expertise Form (Word 97)
Application for Assistance Form (Word 97)
Conditions for Engagement (Word 97)
Single-page Flyer (Word 97)
Two-page Flyer (Word 97)
Three-page Flyer (Word 97)
Expertise Data Template (Excel 97)

Volunteer Briefing (Events)

Description: Parkinson's Victoria, working with event management company Perfect Events, developed comprehensive and very user-friendly volunteer briefing documents for its 2010 Unity Walk. The briefings are available for downloading below.

Contributed by: Parkinson's Victoria

Date: September, 2010

Comprehensive Staff/Volunteer Briefing Includes 'Lost Child Checklist' & 'Accident/Incident Report Form' (PDF)
Volunteer Role Description: Event Ambassador (PDF)
Volunteer Role Description: Marshall (PDF)
Volunteer Role Description: Merchandise (PDF)
Volunteer Role Description: Registration (PDF)

Contribute to the Plans & Tools Bank

We want to load a variety of plans and tools onto this page - but we need your help to add to this resource.

Please send us your plans and tools for us to load onto the website for other groups to download and adapt for their purposes.

As the old adage goes, "None of us is as smart as all of us". The Plans and Tools Bank creates a shared resource that takes the hard-won knowledge of one organisation and shares it with many.

We're looking for all types of planning tools, including:

Community Planning
Disaster Planning
Information Technology Planning
Feasibility for New Organisations / Programs
Fundraising Plans
Infrastructure and Facilities Planning
Leadership Development Planning
Management Development Planning
Marketing Planning
Performance Planning and Improvement
Research Design Planning
Staffing Planning
Training and Development Planning

Email your tools and plans - marketing plans, business plans, etc. - to denism@ourcommunity.com.au, or post to Our Community, PO Box 354 North Melbourne, VIC 3051.

Please also download a Word version of the Plans & Tools Bank Template by Clicking Here and send it to us along with your plan. This will help us to organise the Bank when the volume of material starts to grow. If you prefer, you may download a PDF version of the Template by Clicking Here, fill it in by hand and post it with your Plan.

ABOUT THE CENTRE FOR WHAT WORKS

The Centre for What Works is the place where people can learn from others, save time and money and help reduce duplication of effort.

The Centre has four key resources for community groups, government and communities, taking the hard-won knowledge of one organisation and sharing it with many. These "knowledge banks" allow you to extract the lessons of others, or contribute your own - as the old adage goes, "None of us is as smart as all of us".

1. Lessons Bank - find out what projects others have worked on - what worked, what didn't, and what could have been done differently - before you start a similar project/program.

2. Plans and Tools Bank - download useful plans or handy tools (marketing plans, business plans, etc.) that will save you time and money when putting in place a new project/program.

3. Policy Bank - find a range of template policies and procedures relevant to not-for-profifi Boards and Committees and the organisations they govern.

4. Linkages Bank - this provides you with web links from around Australia and the across the world to the best knowledge and resources for community groups.

The Centre for What Works is a companion resource for Our Community's Centre for Best Practice in Grantmaking, helping grantmakers ensure their valuable resources go further and that knowledge is distributed more widely and effectively.

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National Headquarters: 51 Stanley St, West Melbourne Victoria 3003 Australia
(PO Box 354 North Melbourne 3051 Victoria)
Telephone (03) 9320 6800 Fax (03) 9326 6859 Email service@ourcommunity.com.au

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