| January 30, 2012 | | February 1, 2012 | | February 6, 2012 | | February 8, 2012 |
Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Somerville Community Corporation (337 Somerville Avenue, Second Floor
Somerville, MA 02143) MAP
“Somerville Community Corporation’s next First-Time Homebuyer’s Seminar has been scheduled for January 30, February 1, February 6, and February 8. In order to receive the CHAPA certificate, participants must attend all sessions. The certificate qualifies participants first-time homebuyer products such as MassHousing and SoftSecond loans. Classes take place at the SCC office from 6 to 9 p.m., and the participation fee is $35. Please contact Blyss Cleveland if you have any questions and/or want a registration form.
Blyss Cleveland
bcleveland@somervillecdc.org
617-776-5931 x239”
| February 7, 2012 | | 9:00 am | to | 11:30 am |
Location: The Boston Foundation (75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA)
Registration Deadline: February 3, 2012
While Massachusetts has been at the forefront of affordable housing production, the availability of permanent housing for homeless and other extremely low-income families remains a serious challenge. Please join us as we explore how permanent housing for these families provides the platform for positive changes in health, education, employment and asset-building. In a new Home Funders’ video that will be aired at the forum, two families will share their stories about how a safe and stable place to live has impacted their lives.
There is no registration fee, but space is limited. For more information, contact Soni Gupta, Executive Director of Home Funders at sgupta@homefunders.org.
Registration Information
| January 30, 2012 | | February 8, 2012 |
Tools and Techniques for Stakeholder and Civic Engagement in Community Planning and Development
January 30, 2012; 12:00pm
Faciltated by: Smart Growth America and PlaceMatters
Your projects are each unique in scope, timeline, partners, challenges, opportunities, and their relation to past, present, and future efforts. So, you know it’s important to design the right public process and support it with the most effective tools and techniques to achieve project goals. This webinar will describe tools and techniques community organizers and agencies can use to effectively involve citizens and stakeholders in community projects.
Please click here to register.
Responding to Confrontation with Authentic Civic Engagement
February 8, 2012; 12:00pm
PlaceMatters and Smart Growth America will share experiences and lessons-learned form projects around the country that have successfully engaged opposition groups and individuals that previously were disrupting the process. The session will include video excerpts of meeting where participants have tried (and sometimes succeeded) to disrupt a meeting. Webinar participants will be given the opportunity to share their own experience to discuss effective ways to handle similar situations.
Please click here to register.
Time: 9:30am-4:30pm, 9:00am registration, breakfast, and networking
Location: Julia Martin House (90 Bickford Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130) MAP
Instructor: James Johnson, Sun Consulting
Registration Deadline: February 2, 2012
“I loved that the facilitator engaged everyone to participate and kept the energy in the room from start to finish. This was a very interactive workshop!”
-Building Leaders, Building Communities participant, Dec. 2010
This course will cover the core skills needed for resident-volunteer leaders to make change in their communities. Participants will examine methods for designing a resident leadership training course with multiple modules, discuss varying ways to teach foundational leadership skills to residents, assess methods for pre and post training evaluation models, and practice facilitation methods to effectively deliver a useful learning session.
Registration Information: (price includes refreshments, lunch, and materials)
MACDC Members: $50
Non-MACDC Members: $100
Student/Intern/AmeriCorps: $25
To pay by check, please contact Julie at melkinginstitute@macdc.org
| January 9, 2012 | | January 23, 2012 | | January 30, 2012 | | February 9, 2012 | | February 16, 2012 | | February 23, 2012 |
January Location:
Community Work Services
174 Portland St
Boston 02114
MAP
Classes meet 12:00pm-2:00pm
February Location:
Mildred Avenue Community Center
5 Mildred Avenue
Mattapan, MA 02126
MAP
Classes meet 6:30pm-8:30pm
This is a free eight-hour course to learn everything you need to know about establishing and maintaining a record of good credit, and how to avoid credit traps.
What are the benefits?
- Understand credit scoring and how credit affects the process of becoming a homeowner
- Learn strategies for establishing and maintaining credit
- Receive valuable tips for setting goals and planning for your financial future
Who is eligible?
- Anyone can participate in CreditSmart
How do I register and what happens next?
- Pick your class
Classes are offered at a number of locations and times throughout Boston. Refer our class schedule to pick the one that is right for you.
- Sign up online
Follow the link from the online class schedule and fill out the registration form. Please be advised, space in each course is limited, and it is possible that you may not be able to register for your first choice location and time.
- Confirm your registration
After you register online, you will receive a confirmation email from the Boston Home Center. If you do not receive confirmation, call us at 617.635.HOME.
Have questions?
For more information about CreditSmart, call:
The Boston Home Center
Department of Neighborhood Development
Phone: 617.635.HOME (4663)
Email: HomeCenter.DND@cityofboston.gov
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Location: The Boston Foundation (75 Arlington Street, 10th Floor, Boston)
Registration Deadline: February 10, 2012
The Boston Foundation invites you to join authors Bill Geller and Lisa Belsky for a discussion about their book:
Hear about decades of work in two fields – urban policing and grassroots community economic development – and the ways that collaboration among police and community development corporations (CDCs) can contribute mightily to halt and reverse the spiral of ‘disorder and decline’ in poor neighborhoods throughout America.
Refreshments will be served. RSVP to rsvp@tbf.org and enter ‘Building Our Way’ in the subject line of the email.
| 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
| March 1, 2012 | | 9:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
Location: Massachusetts Housing Partnership (160 Federal Street, Boston, MA)
Instructor: Jennifer Gilbert (VIVA Consulting)
Driving a Closing will be a one-day session, addressing how to push through an often trying stage of the development process, the closing. Time will be spent on the “art”, managing multiple team members, deadlines and funding sources, as well as the ”science,” the technical and legal issues which underpin this stage of development.
Registration Information:
$15.00/day
For more information, please contact dvargo@mhp.net.
| 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 9, 2012 | | March 28, 2012 | | April 13, 2012 | | May 4, 2012 |
Location: Cambridge College (17 Monsignor O’Brien Highway, Cambridge, MA) MAP and Parking Information
Instructor: Mat Thall (Community Development Consultant)
Application Deadline: February 6, 2012
This four-session workshop is designed to introduce new senior managers and executives at CDCs with limited real estate development experience to the broad range of real estate development activities of a CDC. Topics covered include the development process, major community development and real estate concepts, an overview of CDC staff and other professionals involved in various stages of development, and the organizational issues and challenges that the executive may confront in overseeing an effective and successful development agenda. The focus of this course is not ‘how to be a developer,’ but rather on how to provide leadership, oversight and problem-solving support to a real estate development team so that real estate development furthers the CDC’s mission.
Instructor Biography:
Mathew Thall is presently a housing and community development consultant. From 1991 to 2006 he served as Senior Program Director, for the Greater Boston Program of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Previously he served for a decade as the Executive Director of the Fenway CDC in Boston. Prior to that he held planning, policy and research positions with the Cambridge Housing Authority, the court-appointed master in the Perez vs. Boson Housing Authority case and the Laboratory for Psychosocial Studies at Boston College. He began his career in housing and community development as a Housing Management Specialist at the Newark Area Office of HUD. Thall holds a Masters degree in City Planning from MIT and a B.A. from Columbia University. He is currently a Board member of Citizens Housing and Planning Assoc. and the Fensgate Cooperative. Past board memberships include AIDS Housing Corporation, Association for Resident Control of Housing, and the Peter Medoff Dudley Youth Scholarship Fund and Historic Boston Inc.
Session Dates and Approximate Times:
March 9 – 9:30am-4:30pm
March 28 – 9:30am-1:00pm
April 13 – 9:30am-3:30pm
May 4 – 9:30am-4:30pm
Application Requirements:
-Resume or C.V., submitted to melkinginstitute@macdc.org.
-Completed online application, available here.
Registration Information:
MACDC Member Organizations: $200.00
Non-MACDC Member Organizations: $400.00
For more information, please contact Julie at melkinginstitute@macdc.org.
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