5. Prepare Survey Questionnaire

Community or civic work varies as
much in different communities as do
the agencies for undertaking such
work. The object of a community sur-
vey is to ascertain the community
needs, and to record expression of com-
munity opinion as to proposed activi-
ties. The council may prepare a brief,
simple questionnaire card to go to the
membership of the organizations repre-
sented. Such a card might include,
among other things, the following
questions:

1. What should be the first ad?

most important community under-
taking to be engaged in?

 

 

2. Name additional community
needs.

(a)

 

(b)

3. Are there local agencies prepared
to engage in your suggested com-
munity projects? If so, name them.

 

 

 

6. Analyze Returned Questionnaires

Each subcommittee or group of dele-
gates, after a specified time, will collect
all the questionnaire cards submitted
by the members of its organization
and list and classify the returned ques-
tionnaires to show preference expressed.

7. Assemble Analyses of Questionnaires
At the end of a stated period, all sub-

committees or delegates will submit
their returned questionnaire cards to
the council, with a copy of the lists
referred to in (6) above. (It is ad-
visable to enlist the interest of the
local press in the proposed survey
and to have a similar questionnaire —
printed in the local press for a
brief period in order to give full oppor-
tunity to every citizen of the com-
munity to express an opinion. This
survey is a cOmmunity matter; it
should be of interest to all the com-
munity. )

8. Prepare Survey Report

The returns and cards all in, the
council then completes its findings in
the form of a community survey re-
port, to go to each member group. The
report may also be printed in the local
newspapers.

9. Plan for Community Service
Activities

If an apparent strong community sen-

_timent develops to undertake the promo-

tion of one or more of the community
projects suggested by a majority in the
community, a new community organ-
ization may be set up to determine ways
and means for carrying out the recom-
mendations of the community survey
council.

10. Set up New Body for Action

It may be considered desirable to
continue the survey council in power
as a “project committee,” with allied
campaigning, supervisory, and finan-

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