| April 19, 2010 | to | April 23, 2010 |
NeighborWorks America — Place Based Training
Date: April 19-23, 2010
Location: Providence, RI
Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
NeighborWorks America is bringing training on Community Stabilization/Real Estate Owned (REO) strategies and skills to Providence, RI, through its Place Based Training program. Apply today for a scholarship to attend training April 19th – 23rd — qualified applicants get all tuition and lodging covered (you pay only for travel and meals)! Get the tools you need to respond to foreclosure, from acquiring and rehabbing foreclosed properties, to selling and retaining properties as long-term affordable housing. Scholarships are limited.
Additional Registration and Scholarship Information Here
Applications are now being accepted for the MassCS Spring 2010 Commonwealth Seminar!
The Spring 2010 Seminar starts on Friday, March 12 and ends on Friday, April 16. Classes run once a week from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and participants can expect to gain an insider’s perspective on how the Massachusetts state government works. The seminar is taught by legislators, lobbyists, journalists, budget expects, and others who are deeply involved in making policy on a statewide level.
Acceptance to the seminar is on a competitive basis, and the Commonwealth Seminar staff and advisors will make all final decisions about the makeup of the seminar.
Application Information
Deadline Registration: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Shelterforce Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Building has featured an article by MACDC president Joe Kriesberg in their Fall 2009 edition. The article discusses the current state of Community Development Corporations as well as critical areas of focus that are necessary for the successful growth of community based organization in today’s economic and social climate. Stay up to date with MACDC, The Mel King Institute and Shelterforce by visiting shelterforce.org.
| April 8, 2010 | to | April 10, 2010 |
The 2010 NTC, hosted by the Nonprofit Technology Network, will bring together an outstanding group of nonprofit leaders, IT innovators, communications gurus, fundraising superstars, and other nonprofit staff looking to learn the latest trends, practical how-tos, and IT solutions to optimize their organization’s technology to further their missions to create more social good in the world.
Registration is now open! Be sure to register early to save on registration and to be a part of this amazing event that sold out in 2009.
April 8-10, 2010
Omni Hotel
100 CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Additional Information and Registration information here
| November 14, 2009 | | 11:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
 Change is coming to transportation, and we want you to be a part of it. You’ve probably heard about the reform bill which merges the state’s major transportation agencies into MassDOT on November 1st. As part of this reform effort, transportation officials have been thinking about doing business in some new ways. In July 2009, the Executive Office of Transportation launched the Developers Page as part of the Patrick Administration’s commitment to creating a modern, efficient, and customer-friendly transportation system. The EOT Developers Page provides information and data from Massachusetts’ transportation agencies and authorities that is useful to developers interested in creating mobile phone and web-based applications that will deliver information more efficiently and effectively to customers. Data released through the Developers page includes MBTA and RTA route and schedule data, MHD and MTA planned construction event data, RMV branch wait time feeds and a variety of other information. Engaging developers is a new form of Civic Engagement — at it’s core, it is about citizens interacting with government in new ways. In addition, EOT uses Twitter for updates, a Google Group, and regular meetings to engage developers. In less than two months, more than five applications have been built using this data.
To build on this momentum, EOT has announced the First Annual MassDOT Developers Conference, on November 14th, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. The Conference is free and open to the public. EOT, which becomes MassDOT on November 1, is also announcing the 2009 EOT Developers Challenge, which inspires developers to create both applications and data visualizations, to submit them to EOT, and to release them to the public. The two top submissions will receive a CharlieCard valid for one-year of free travel on the MBTA, in addition to recognition at the Conference.
This Conference will be interesting to anyone who works on issues related to transparency, open government, technology, civic engagement, transportation and planning, state and local government, and public-private partnerships. We hope to see you there!
| November 10, 2009 | | 9:30 am | to | 1:00 pm |
The Department of Housing & Community Development is sponsoring a State Resources for Community and Economic Development Workshop for municipal and community-based officials, board members, staff and volunteers on November 10, 2009. The workshop will address the full range of community and economic development concerns and the use of multiple state resources to undertake local/regional projects most effectively.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
War Memorial Building
310 Appleton Street
Holyoke, MA 01040
For more information, contact David Haynes, DHCD regional services representative:
(617) 573-1336
David.Haynes@state.ma.us
| September 30, 2009 | | October 14, 2009 | | November 18, 2009 | | December 9, 2009 | | January 20, 2010 | | February 17, 2010 | | 1:00 pm |
The Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission has partnered with the Massachusetts American Planning Association to host a series of Audio and Web Conference Sessions. All planners, town administrators, selectmen, planning board members and any other interested city and town officials are invited to attend. Below is the list of the topics that will be offered in 2009-2010, as well as the dates, times and CM credit values for each session:
- Project Management – Wednesday, September 30, 2009; 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. EDT; CM 1.5 credits
- Monetizing Sustainability – Wednesday, October 14, 2009; 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. EDT; CM: 1.5 credits
- Planning with Large Institutions – Wednesday, November 18, 2009; 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EST; CM: 1.0 credit
- Introduction to the Planning Commission: Part One - Wednesday, December 9, 2009; 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. EST or 7:00 p.m.–8:30p.m. EST
- Performance Measurement in Transportation Planning – Wednesday, January 20, 2010; 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. EST; CM: 1.5 credits
- Introduction to the Planning Commission: Part Two - Wednesday, February 17, 2010; 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. EST or 7:00 p.m.–8:30p.m. EST
- Redevelopment and Revitalization for a New Era - Wednesday, March 17, 2010; 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. EDT; CM: 1.5 credits
- Development Finance and Pro Formas – Wednesday, April 21, 2010; 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. EDT; CM 1.5 credits
- Design Graphics for Planning – Wednesday, May 12, 2010; 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. EDT; CM: 1.5 credits
- Design Review for Officials - Wednesday, May 26, 2010; 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT
- 2010 Planning Law Review – Wednesday, June 30, 2010; 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. EDT; CM: 1.5 LAW credits
Contact & Registration Information:
Johnathan E. Church, AICP
508-459-3316
jchurch@cmrpc.org
http://www.planning.org/audioconference/projman/participant.htm
| October 14, 2009 | | 1:30 pm | to | 3:00 pm | | October 21, 2009 | | 1:30 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
The Center for Co-operatives and CED at Southern New Hampshire University’s School of Community Economic Development is hosting a Series of four webinars discussing the theme “Co-operatives in Troubles Times”. This Series, sponsored by the CHS Foundation, will examine a different pertinent topic during each of the webinars. Each event will offer opportunities for interactive dialogs between the panelists and audience. The cost to participate in all four webinars is just a one-time fee of US$25.
4 Interactive Webinars include:
”Co-operatives in Periods of Economic Crisis”
September 16th 1:30 – 3:00 pm
“Preserving ‘Main Streets’ Through Co-operatives”
September 17th 1:30 – 3:00pm
“How are Credit Unions Performing in the Current Banking Crisis?”
October 14th 1:30 – 3:00pm
“Housing Co-operatives in a Time of Foreclosure”
October 21st 1:30 – 3:00pm
Information and Registration: http://www.snhu.edu/615.asp
The Massachusetts Forum for Creating Healthier Communities VII
An Opportunity for Learning and Leading Positive Change
The MassForum offers community teams and individuals a unique, extended opportunity to enhance skills and learn new strategies to create healthier and safer communities. MassForum Trainings: Hone the Skills that Make a Difference.
The MassForum training curriculum centers on eight core components. These components which are devoted to exploring ideas, enhancing skills, developing strategies, accessing tools and resources will lead to building safer and healthier communities. Trainings will be tailored to meet the needs of the participants and will be conducted by recognized national and local experts. Trainings will be conducted through face-to-face meetings, webinars, and online web tutorials.
The core training components include:
• Understanding the Healthy Communities Approach
• Diversity and Cultural Competency
• Collaborative Leadership
• Working Together for Change: Building a Sustainable Coalition
• Community Visioning, Assessment, Action Planning, and Evaluation
• Developing Effective Approaches to Environmental Strategies and Policy Development
• Engaging Youth in Healthy Communities
• Effective Communication Planning
A commitment to attend all training sessions and to complete assignments is required for acceptance. Complete details, including full training course descriptions and updates, are available on the web at: www.masspartnership.org
MassForum 8 Brochure
Building communities
By Chuck Grigsby and Joe Kriesberg | Boston Globe | May 20, 2009
BANK FAILURES and foreclosures, holes in neighborhoods where developments failed to go forward, and pervasive unemployment – sound familiar?The mess we’re in now mirrors much of what Boston and other cities in Massachusetts struggled through in the 1970s. We emerged from that period stronger, more united, and with some of the most vibrant and livable neighborhoods in the United States. Part of the answer for that period’s problems applies today: hard grassroots community work that turns a neighborhood around – one vacant lot, one abandoned house, one family, and one worker at a time, so that everyone can participate in the economic recovery to come.
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