---
id: "worksheets:exercise/identifying-stakeholders-cbo"
type: "Solving Public Problems worksheet"
title: "Identifying Stakeholders (Community-Based Organizations)"
url: "https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/identifying-stakeholders-cbo"
date: "2024-07-11"
summary: "Which communities, organizations, and individuals have the know-how to help you refine your definition of the problem. Brainstorm who needs to be asked..."
source: "Solving Public Problems worksheets (worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org), The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Identifying Stakeholders (Community-Based Organizations)

Exercise group: Defining Problems with Human-Centered Design · Recommended exercise

## About this worksheet

- Which communities, organizations, and individuals have the know-how to help you refine your definition of the problem. 
- Brainstorm who needs to be asked. 
- Make sure to include diverse kinds of people, including both average users and outliers, focusing in particular on those who are least likely to have been heard. Make sure you are hearing all viewpoints.

## Questions

1. Who? Organizations that work in specific communities.
2. Why? Community-based organizations have deep knowledge of place and residents.
3. How? As with nonprofits, there are different types (educational, economic (commerce), economic equality, environmental, human rights, health, faith-based) with differing levels of community involvement and interest.

## Source

Solving Public Problems, Chapter 5, p. 125

## PDF version

https://directus.theburnescenter.org/assets/8c966c1d-8771-4799-abec-7340d9d5bbf6

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