RAFF IT UP! Ideas

No matter what you're doing in your community, make sure you incorporate the four elements of RAFF, and you're sure to see success! Submit your RAFF ideas - by clicking on the e-mail link at the bottom of the page.

Always remember to " RAFF It Up"!

Relationships - provide a way to help people meet each other, have conversation, and develop relationships. Sometimes people need help starting a conversation.

Action - people feel most connected when they have a piece of the action and when they feel like they have a role to play. The action can be anything.

Food - always have good food whenever people get together. Sharing food is a conversation-starter and relationship building - and everyone loves to eat!

Fun - if people don't have fun, they won't come back. Fun is an essential element, and it's important that the environment is there so that people can create their own fun. If you do a good job of the first three - helping people build relationships, helping them find their piece of the action, and providing good food - then the fun is sure to follow!

* Remember - to ensure that people can be part of RAFF, child care, accessibility, and transportation must be in place. You can't be part if you can't get there!

CBR's two-day Community Capacity Building and Asset Mapping© - R.A.F.F. It Up - Making Community Building Happen workshop shares many more ideas for ways to RAFF It Up!!

Click here to see past RAFF ideas!

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