Welcome to The Engagement Guide for Producers

What if you could increase the impact of your work, beyond the broadcast or screening of your film? Building on your investment in producing the film, this guide will help you plan community engagement.

Promoting your film and content, starting a buzz in communities across the country and igniting a conversation around your ideas are but a few of the many turns your engagement efforts can take. We encourage you to define your engagement outcomes, design a plan that will guide your efforts, establish partnerships to extend your reach, and carefully document your results. Following this process will increase your impact -- and also increase the visibility and, potentially, funding of your project.

How to Use This Guide

Where should you begin? Here are some ideas about how to proceed.

If you are...	Begin by...
New to Community Engagement	stepping through each phase of the Engagement Process; you'll learn about engagement and review some interesting examples along the way.
Familiar with Community Engagement	reviewing some examples of engagement projects, beginning with the defining outcomes phase AND learning about the engagement process through our case studies: America's Best Idea Our National Parks and The Detroit Agenda.
Experienced conducting Community Engagement	viewing the engagement planning tools, beginning with the defining outcomes phase AND seeing an engagement project in action through our case studies.