This page contains documents developed or recommended by Thriving Earth Exchange to support project teams, or others interested in community science. Check back often as we continue to build this library!
Thriving Earth Exchange Project Resources
| Document | Description | |
| Thriving Earth Exchange Project Milestones | The Thriving Earth Exchange Project Milestones are steps that guide you through a project from the first exploration of how science and community priorities connect to a completed project with concrete, impactful deliverables. Each milestone builds on the step before it and prepares you for the next milestone. | Link |
| Guide to Your First Meeting | This document is a guide for a first working meeting. It contains a set of questions that will help you both get your working relationship off to a very productive start. You can use it as an informal discussion guide or as a template for a more formal agreement about how a new project will unfold. | Link |
| 10 Tips for Engaging with Communities | An overview of the challenges of co-creation and some of the successful strategies that have been used to overcome those challenges. | Link |
| How to Create Great Images | Follow these simple steps and the next time you have to explain your project or give a presentation, you’ll be armed with some eye-catching visuals to give the great impression your work deserves. | Link |
| Community Science Guidance for Scientists | A compilation of resources selected or developed by Thriving Earth Exchange to help scientists get started doing community science and engage successfully with communities. | Link |
| How to Develop an Elevator Pitch | A short guide to developing a successful and flexible elevator pitch about your community science. | Link |
| Media Toolkit | This resource developed by Segal Communications has tips for interviews, press releases, identifying newsworthy angles and more. | Link |
| Community Science Principles, Practices and Actions | Based upon an NSF funded-workshop that brought together over 200 people to synthesize overarching principles and practices of effective and ethical community science along with practical actions that individuals, institutions and funders can take. | Link |
Recommended Reading
| Document | Source | Description | |
| Community-Driven Research in the Anthropocene | Raj Pandya | A paper published around the time TEX started which outlines approaches we apply and why TEX and community science are necessary. | Link |
| A How-to Guide for Coproduction of Actionable Science | Beier, Paul, et al., Conservation letters | A paper about boundary spanning which focuses on climate change. | Link |
| Community-based Participatory Research: Policy Recommendations for Promoting a Partnership Approach in Health Research | Israel, Barbara A., et al. Education for Health | A set of recommendations for Community Based Participatory Research | Link |
| Salience, Credibility, Legitimacy and Boundaries: Linking Research, Assessment and Decision Making | Cash, David, et al., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | A foundational paper about boundary spanning science. | Link |
| Scientist-Community Partnerships: A Scientist’s Guide to Successful Collaboration | Union of Concerned Scientists Center for Science and Democracy | A guide that explains some of the benefits and challenges of community partnerships and offers specific advice for finding partnership opportunities, building relationships with community groups, and overcoming barriers to successful collaboration. Click here for a related worksheet. | Link |
| The 3 Levels of Listening | Michael Warden | A useful three-level model about listening. | Link |
| Meaningful Collaborations: A Workbook for Community Leaders, Educators, and Advocates Working with Science Solutions | Independent Community-based Organizations (“The ICBOs”) and The Cornell Lab or Ornithology | A workbook for community-based organizations and community leaders. This workbook is a product of research conducted by the ICBOs and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology over three years, focused on how to create equitable partnerships between community-based organizations in underrepresented communities and informal science institutions. | Link |
| Partnerships for Impact: A Workbook for Informal Science Educators and Outreach Specialists Working with Diverse Communities | Independent Community-based Organizations (“The ICBOs”) and The Cornell Lab or Ornithology | A workbook for scientists, science educators and outreach specialists. This workbook is a product of research conducted by the ICBOs and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology over three years, focused on how to create equitable partnerships between community-based organizations in underrepresented communities and informal science institutions. | Link |
| Jargon and How to Avoid It | AGU Sharing Science | Ways to identify and avoid jargon, words or phrases that loses or change meaning when used with people who aren’t in your field | Link |
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