Spark Readiness and Needs Assessments At Spark, we recognize that sometimes it is critically important to gather new information about your community before you plan how to make a change. However, it can be expensive and time consuming to implement readiness and needs assessments. Spark Community Solutions will partner with you to implement the process that you can afford in the timeline you have available. Services included: Community Readiness Assessment, helping you identify the best starting place for addressing a community-wide issue; Service and Need Assessment, helping you to develop the right services to match the needs in your community (including using GIS to analyze the geographic location and match of services and needs); Fiscal and Gaps Analysis, helping you to understand how current funding streams can meet the needs and where gaps still exist; Referral and Network Assessment, understanding the current movement of clients between agencies and opportunities for improvement; Is your community facing an issue not listed above? Click here to learn about customized technical assistance on other topics.