Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm
Location: Suffolk University (73 Tremont Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA)
“Come envision the future of urban agriculture in Boston with us! Learn about urban agriculture, see demonstrations during Open House at 6:00pm, taste food samples, find out about how zoning can support farming, and brainstorm the future of urban agriculture in Boston.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), and the Mayor’s Office of Food Initiatives are launching a new project to update the Boston Zoning code to support Urban Agriculture (UA) city wide. UA is small scale farming that makes healthy, fresh food more accessible and empowers Bostonians by creating economic opportunity. Examples of urban farming include rooftop greenhouse agriculture, aquaponics (fish farming), community farms, farm stands, composting, and other fresh food-producing endeavors.”
Keynote Speaker: Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc., former professional athlete and 2008 MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’ recipient for his work on urban farming and sustainable food production.
Event Fliers:
For further information, please contact:
John Reed, Senior Planner
john.read.BRA@cityofboston.gov
617.918.4264
Time: 1:00pm-5:30pm
Location: South Boston Convention Center (415 Summer Street, Boston, MA)
Kevin P. Martin & Associates, P.C., are pleased to announce that our annual Affordable Housing forum has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, South Boston. The forum will present the latest updates on tax credits and issues affecting the Affordable Housing Industry.
Please mark your calendars to join us. Detailed information will be sent six weeks before the event. We look forward to seeing you there.
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Location: ValleyWorks Career Center (Lawrence, MA)
Are you trying to start up an education, training, or employment program? Are you trying to improve and existing program? Attend this training to get an overview of the challenges and opportunities facing staff in workforce development programs. This interactive session is especially designed for staff who have attended CWC’s introductory training on the workforce development system.
This training will focus on ideas, information, and resources at the program level, including:
- key challenges and opportunities for different types of workforce development programs;
- three types of jobs programs, their services, and resource levels;
- operational components of programs, including core services, administrative requirements, and subcontracting out services;
- what it means to be job ready – and how that applies to your work;
- resources and strategies to improve new and existing programs
This training is being offered free of charge but registration is required. Please click here to register.
For more information or questions contact Geoff Beane at 781-890-2004 or geoffbeane@aol.com.
| February 2, 2012 | to | February 4, 2012 |
Location: San Diego Sheraton Hotel & Marina (1380 Harbor Island Drive, San Diego, CA)
After celebrating its 10th anniversary in Charlotte, the New Partners Conference begins its second decade by heading west, back where it started—San Diego, California.
The eighth-largest city in the United States, San Diego is one of the most livable and sustainable major metropolitan areas in the nation. An innovative pioneer in the smart growth movement, the San Diego region provides inspiring models for creating transit-oriented, compact development; transforming downtowns and ethnically diverse, older neighborhoods; designing walkable, mixed-use urban villages; and fostering the emergence of leading high-tech, telecommunications, and clean-tech businesses.
The program will span three full days with optional pre-conference events scheduled for Wednesday, February 1st and Sunday February 5th. The main program will kick off on Thursday morning, February 2, and continue through Saturday afternoon. The schedule includes a dynamic mix of plenaries, breakouts, implementation workshops, specialized trainings, peer-to-peer learning opportunities, and coordinated networking activities. It will also feature exciting tours of local model projects in and around the San Diego region.
There will be something for everybody, from veteran experts to smart-growth novices, with 100 sessions and workshops to choose from. Learn from hundreds of speakers who cross disciplines to share insights, valuable tools and strategies for making smart growth a success in your community. The program will be infused with sessions and case studies focusing on important equity and environmental justice issues.
Please click here for additional and registration information.
“For 15 years, TDC has been New England’s key provider of affordable training for nonprofits. We offer a range of courses that expand staff and volunteers’ knowledge of essential management concepts and practices, and help them build skills in:
- Governance and Planning
- Human Resources
- Resource Development
- Financial Management
- Marketing & Communications
February 2012
- Feb. 1 – Fundraising Events that Raise Funds: What you need to do to structure a successful event
- Feb. 2 – Supervision Basics for Everyone
- Feb. 29 – Making Sense of Financial Statements: What non-accountants need to know
March 2012
- Mar. 22 – Major Gifts Fundraising: Focus your board
- Mar. 29 – Nonprofit Leadership: Increase your effectiveness
April 2012
- Apr. 4 – Raising Funds in New Terrain
- Apr. 4 – The Chair-CEO Relationship: Setting Expectations, Getting Results (Worcester)
- Apr. 12 – Facilitation Skills for Every Situation
- Apr. 26 – Supervision Basics for Everyone
May 2012
- May 2 - Budgeting for Nonprofits
Please visit our website to see the latest offerings, to learn about special 20% discounts on workshops for members of the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, and other special discounts.”
Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Register today for the third in a series of “Tools for Success” webinars for Assets for Independence grantees, an upcoming webinar from the Assets for Independence (AFI) Resource Center.
How do you know if a prospective saver qualifies to join your Assets for Independence (AFI) program? Did you know that savers must meet both income and net worth eligibility requirements? What counts and what doesn’t? What documentation is required?
This hour-long webinar will include:
- A brief “refresher” on eligibility rules for the AFI program
- Examples of common scenarios where determining an applicant’s eligibility can be challenging
- Tools you can use to help streamline the process of verifying applicants’ income and assets
- Real-world advice from an AFI grantee that has created an effective tool to determine clients’ eligibility
Presenters:
- Maggie Reilly, Program Director, CASA of Oregon
- Jermaine Burkhalter, Program Specialist, Office of Community Services
- Johanna Barrero, AFI Resource Center (moderator)
Please click here to register. The webinar is free to all interested participants. In advance of the webinar, please send any questions you would like our panelists to address during the session to Johanna Barrero, or call 202.207.0117.
| March 5, 2012 | to | March 6, 2012 |
Location: Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers (301 E. North Water Street, Chicago, IL 60611)
Registration Deadline: February 20, 2012 at 5:00pm (for conference and hotel)
Across the U.S., more than 100 communities are implementing comprehensive community development programs. As these communities continue to experiment with new approaches and strategies, there is a growing body of evidence about what really works to revitalize low income communities. We know that success requires deep and abiding citizen engagement and new structures of collaborative, community decision-making. High-quality community planning must integrate real estate development, economic activity, workforce, health, safety, and education and provide a clear road map for making desired change. Aggressive efforts to broker relationships among the public and private institutions that supply the resources are also essential to success.
Getting It Done II (GID II) will be our largest convening of practitioners who will come together to share what we are learning and promote best practices for advancing this work.
QUESTIONS? Please contact our Training Coordinator, Loreal Mallett at 312.422.9569 or lmallett@instituteccd.org.
For additional information, please click here.
| March 25, 2012 | to | March 28, 2012 |
Location: Omni Shoreham Hotel (2500 Calvert Street NW Washington, DC)
Early Registration Deadline: February 15, 2012 (for discounted rate)
What is the outlook for Section 8 voucher reform in this Congress? What can public housing residents do to monitor the planning process in their communities? How can low income housing advocates leverage the message of Occupy Wall Street to make change at home?
Explore these topics and more at our 2012 Housing Policy Conference, March 25-28 in Washington, D.C.
No matter who you are or where you live, if you care about housing for America’s lowest income people, you’ll want to attend our conference.
Early registrants receive a significant discount over regular and late rates, so act now. Members of NLIHC get even bigger discounts, so I hope you’ll consider joining us if you have not already.
Learn more about NLIHC’s Annual Housing Policy Conference & Lobby Day in this short video
Please click here to register.
| April 18, 2012 | to | April 21, 2012 |
Location: Washington Court Hotel (525 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001)
Application Deadline: January 20, 2012
Early bird registration is now open for the 2012 NCRC Annual Conference. This multi-day gathering brings together hundreds of community leaders, development experts, bankers, legislators, regulators, academics and others. The conference is our premier training and networking event of the year, and an opportunity to bring together the brightest stars in government, academia and the financial services industry with real grassroots and community organizations, in order to craft and promote solutions that bring low- and moderate- income people into the financial mainstream.
Our annual conference is only a few months away! Register now to make sure you and your community can benefit from this valuable experience.
Financial Aid:
NCRC wants all member groups (and those organizations who may be interested in membership) to participate in the annual conference. We recognize that this opportunity can pose an economic barrier to some organizations and individuals. To address this challenge, NCRC makes some scholarship support available through the Barbara A. Craig Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Apply for financial support or contact conference@ncrc.org to receive a PDF copy of the scholarship form.
Please click here for more information on the conference.
| March 1, 2012 | | 8:30 am | to | 7:00 pm |
Location: Westin Bonaventure Hotel (404 S Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA)
You are invited to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Achieving Excellence program! Achieving Excellence is a performance-driven organizational investment program for seasoned executive directors and senior staff in community development.
Draft Agenda:
8:30am – Looking back at Achieving Excellence: A brief look at the cumulative impact of Achieving Excellence over the past 10 years
- A review of the tools and disciplines of Achieving Excellence
- Table Discussions:
- Reflections back on your original challenge & progress
- Driving the AE disciplines forward/deeper into your organizations
- How to use AE tools for transformation and to better address the current economic crisis
- How to uses AE was for other challenges
- Significant innovation arising from AE
- Carrying the AE skills and disciplines to new jobs and organizations
- Honoring the Legacy
10:00am – Looking Forward with Achieving Excellence
- Scale, Collaboration and Capital Markets—Doug Smith
11:30am – Luncheon speaker
1:00pm – Break Out Sessions
- Please click here to read about the break-out sessions and vote on the one you would most like to attend
4:00pm – Facilitated Discussion: The Future of Community Development & AE in the Next 10 Years
5:00-7:00pm – Reception & Celebration of 10 years of Achieving Excellence
Registration Form
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