Assessing your community
Mercer Island served as a testing ground for a reusable model. The community-assessment section helps a library, school, town, or organization think through local strengths, relationships, and logistics before launching events.
Community Assessment Tips
A PDF that walks through the questions and factors Nancy used when planning locally.
Community Assessment Form
A fillable-style planning sheet for adapting the model to your own setting.
The Approach
Sing With Our Kids is designed around free or very low-cost resources. The point is not to build a complicated program stack, but to use what a community already has and make it sing together.