Ignite!: Getting Your Community Coalition Fired up for Change

by Frances Dunn Butterfoss

Frances Dunn Butterfoss, Ph.D., captured the attention of academics and practitionerseverywhere with her landmark textbook, Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health, whichprovided a comprehensive approach to coalitions.Ignite! Getting Your Community Coalition Fired Up for Change is a more concise, user-friendly bookgeared for community practitioners, leaders, and activists who want to build and sustain innovativeorganizations and coalitions to improve the health and well-being of their communities.Learn why sustaining and building a coalition is very much like planning, building, fueling, andsustaining a campfi re, and get detailed guidance on how • determine if coalition building is the best way to achieve your goals;• pick the simplest structure to achieve your objective;• build and sustain innovative organizations and community coalitions with the powerto change policies, systems, and environments.The book’s four parts—Before You Build It, Build It, Make It Work, and Sustain It—providepractical strategies to build coalitions, as well as troops, clubs, neighborhood associations, andother organizations.Whether you’re a volunteer or professional, you’ll get tools that make it easier to accomplishmeaningful and lasting change with Ignite!

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 17, 2013

About the author

Frances Dunn Butterfoss, PhD, MSEd is a nationally recognized expert on coalition building and organizational development, with more than 25 years of experience training and consulting with organizations, coalitions and communities across North America. Dr. Butterfoss is President of Coalitions Work and a professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School. She has founded and directed several coalitions and received research support from many agencies and foundations. She has published widely and her textbooks, Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health and Ignite! are best sellers for academics, practitioners and community activists. Fran is a past President and Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Public Health Education. She lives in Yorktown, Virginia with her husband, Tom and is devoted to her three children and five grandchildren.