Date: September 30, 2011
Time: 9:00am-4:30pm
Location: Boston LISC Conference Room B. First Floor (95 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116)
Overview
Introduction to Community and Economic Development was a full-day professional development/academic course provided by the Mel King Institute for Community Building. The course content was intended to provide a broad surface level description of the main objectives, characteristics, and challenges of effective Community and Economic development, specifically in Massachusetts.
Intended Audience
Course participants included new community development practitioners and volunteers (CDC staff members, Interns/AmeriCorps Members, local students, and community leaders).
Agenda
Introduction and Group Definitions 9:00am-10:30am
Community Organizing & Planning10:30am-11:30pm-
What is community organizing: Creating a responsive and collaborative community member base to identify issues and assess needs How to begin organizing: Ways to effectively connect with the community (organizing and outreach techniques) Why is organizing important: Leadership development and support for proposed local projects or initiatives
Lunch 11:30am-12:15pm
Real Estate Development 12:30pm-1:30pm
What do CDCs do in terms of Real estate development (affordable and healthy housing options à homeownership, commercial to a lesser extent) perhaps touch on community space and transportation if time permits How are CDC real estate projects achieved? Why are these real estate projects critical for the majority of CDCs
Economic Development1:30-2:30
What types of community development projects can infuse investment and money into a specific community? How can community based organizations effectively contribute to local economic growth/stability Why is promoting financial equity and opportunity critical to improving challenging social conditions in a sustainable way?
Political/Legislative 2:30-3:30
What types of civic engagement activities can practitioners encourage amongst local residents?
How do communities attract and maintain political allies?
Why: identifying specific political avenues to achieving desired policy changes; establishing more political strength for traditionally underrepresented social groups
“This is a transformative training that gave us a shared analysis on race for ourcommunity organizing work.” ‐ Haymarket Grantee
Through dialogue, reflection, role‐playing, and presentations, this intensive workshopchallenges participants to analyze the structures of power and privilege that hindersocial equity and prepares them to be effective organizers for justice.
The Workshop is open to:
Community organizers and leaders
Peace and social justice advocates
Students, participatory researchers, and educators
Community development practitioners
Anyone interested in creating a more humane society
The 2 1/2 day workshop includes:
Historical & Institutional analysis of racism
Understanding the structure of oppression
Defining and sharing culture
Leadership Development
Principles of accountability and networking
Registration
Pre‐registration is required, and space is limited.
Training Date:
Thursday, Sept. 22nd, 6‐8PM
Fri. Sept. 23rd, 9AM‐5pm
Sat. Sept. 24, 2011 9AM‐4 Location: Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston Cost: $350 for small organizations / individuals; $450 for large institutions & businesses. Fee includes snacks and lunches. Limited scholarships are available for Simmons and BC students, Haymarket grantees and MACDC members.
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Location: MassHousing (One Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108)
The Mel King Institute for Community Building celebrated its 2nd Anniversary on June 15, 2011. Community development leaders from across the commonwealth were able to catch up and discuss current trends, all while supporting and celebrating Institute achievements over the past 2 years. Guest speakers included King Institute participants, Mel King, and Marie Kennedy (Community Planning Professor at UMass Boston and UCLA).
Marie Kennedy is Professor Emerita of Community Planning at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California Los Angeles. She combines the roles of activist and scholar, teaching, working in, and writing about transformative community development, planning education and participatory action research. Marie has supervised numerous collaborative projects through which students learn and earn academic credit while providing research and technical assistance to community organizations focusing on anti-displacement, anti-racist and community empowerment issues. At UMass Boston, she developed programs through which low-income and previously homeless women were supported in acquiring a college education while focusing their academic work on issues of importance to them and their communities. Over the years, Marie has worked with and/or written about community and worker organizations and social movements in the Greater Boston Area, as well as in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico and Nicaragua. Currently, Marie is a member of the steering committee of Planners Network, co-editor of Progressive Planning, and is a member of the boards of directors of the Venice Community Housing Corporation and of Grassroots.
Thank You to our Supporters
Partners
MassHousing
LISC
Sponsors
NeighborWorks America
CEDAC
Citi
Massachusetts Housing Partnership
The Hyams Foundation
MACDC
Citizens Bank
Supporters
Boston Private Bank and Trust Company
Kevin P. Martin Associates, PC
Klein Horning, LLP
Sovereign Bank
Friends
Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston
Chuck Grigsby
Vertec Corp
Donors
MassDevelopment
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation
Peter Munkenbeck
Robert Beal
TD Bank
Viva Consulting
Others
Accounting Management Solutions
Barbara Burnham
Codman Square NDC
Diane Gordon Consulting
Fenway CDC
Franklin County CDC
HAP Housing
The Life Initiative
Marcus Weiss, EDAC
Mathew Thall
Rachel Bratt
Vanessa Calderon-Rosado
Co-Sponsored by: The Housing Network of Rhode Island and Roger Williams University
Date: Wednesday April 20th 2011 Location: The Law School Room #262 - Roger Williams University, Bristol Campus Time: 6:30 pm
Dr. Dennis Littky will speak about the local impact on communities and the critical role that schools play in revitalization. Community development practitioners, educators and economic development specialists are focusing on the link between education and the creation of “creative cities” as an economic development strategy that translates into creative economic outcomes in the form of new ideas, new high-tech businesses and regional growth.
Dr. Littky is the co-founder and co-director of The Big Picture Company, The Met School and College Unbound. He is nationally known for his work in secondary education in urban, suburban and rural settings, spanning over 40 years. He has helped develop an innovative, replicable model for schools that has led to the creation of a network of 75 schools in 20 cities, nationally, and 20 abroad. In addition, Littky and Big Picture were asked to lead the Gates Foundation’s Alternative High School Initiative, for youth at risk of “falling through the cracks”.
The Partnership for Community Development was initiated in Fall 2008 by the Housing Network of RI and Roger Williams University, to raise the level of discourse about community development issues, to strengthen the professional skills of Rhode Island’s housing and community development industry, and to attract a new generation of professionals to the field.
Roger Williams University is a pilot site for College Unbound and a number of the students have chosen Community Development as their concentration.
There is NO charge for this event, RSVP to Maria Andrade mandrade@housingnetworkri.org or 401-521-1461 for planning purposes.
Sponsored by the Alliance – Advancing Community Development by Confronting Racism
Date: April 29, 2011 Time: 9:00 – 11:30am Location: Boston Private Bank; Ten Post Office Square, Boston 02109
The Alliance invites you to take a Stand Against Racism
Join them for a DVD Viewing and discussion of “Race the Power of an illusion: The House We Live In”
RACE The Power of an Illusion is a provocative series that questions the very idea of race as biology. The series provides an eye‐opening discussion tool to help people examine their beliefs about race, privilege, policy, and justice.
“The House We Live In”(Episode III) –focuses not on individual behaviorsand attitudes, but on how our institutionsshape and create race, giving different groups vastly unequal life chances. Whodefines race? In the early 20th century, thecourts were called upon to determine who was white by employing contradictory logic to maintain the color line. The episode revealssome of the ordinary social institutionsthat quietly channel wealth and opportunity,so that white people benefit from a racist system without personally being racist. It concludes by looking at why we can’t just get rid of race.
Registration to alliance@macdc.org by April 22nd, Required
For more information about The Alliance or The Stand Against Racism event, contact Shirronda Almeida @ 617.426.0303
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011 Time: 9:30am – 5:00pm Location: Julia Martin House (90 Bickford Street, Boston, MA 02130)
Workshop Description:
This workshop enables participants to be aware of and familiarize with critical elements to become effective community educators: foster open dialogues with and among participants, promote critical thinking, be creative, experience safety and freedom, and become more active and responsible members of society. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss and understand the social role of education and its importance to promote social change.
The workshop provides an overview of how adults learn by practicing all phases of the learning cycle (definition, validation, assimilation, integration, and transition), applying 12 important pinciples for effective learning, and sharing personal experiences.
During the registration period, participants will fill out and return a needs assessment form at least 5 days before the workshop.
Workshop Objectives:
Participants will
Understand the fundamentals of popular education: the learning cycle, principles of effective learning, ideas-feelings-actions;
learn, review and practice principles for effective learning; and
understand the importance of following the seven steps of lesson planning.
Healthy Communities, Strong Regions, A Prosperous America
Date: November 8-11, 2011 Location: Detroit Marriott and the Renaissance Center
The PolicyLink Summit is back! Please join thousands of your fellow advocates, activists, policymakers, foundation officials, and other equity leaders in Detroit this November for Equity Summit 2011.
More than 2,000 equity leaders attended our Regional Equity ’08 Summit in New Orleans three years ago. In the time since, the national equity movement has grown even stronger.
At Equity Summit 2011, together we will discuss and develop the agenda for sustainable and equitable development with access to jobs, transportation, education, health, and housing.
Exploring the Reputation and the Reality of Race Relations in Our City
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Time: 8:30 – 10:30am Location: The Boston Foundation (75 Arlington Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA)
Known as the “Mecca” and intellectual center for African Americans in the 19th century, today Boston has a mixed record on race relations, with a low point during court-ordered desegregation of the Boston Public Schools in the early 1970′s. Please join the Boston Foundation for the first in a series of forums presented in conjunction with Commonwealth Compact, the Museum of Science and the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts on the occasion of the Museum of Science exhibit opening this month called Race: Are We So Different?
RSVP by January 24, 2011 to rsvp@tbf.org
Please enter “Race Forum” in the subject line of the e-mail
Date: January 19-23, 2010 Location: Paramount Black Box (559 Washington Street, Boston)
Join the Boston premiere of an intriguing play about urban planning and its effect on neighborhood and community. In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yardsis the culmination of a long-term investigation of the controversial Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn by the ensemble theatre company, The Civilians. This lively presentation of theatre, dance and music draws inspiration from interviews with the real life players in the story of a divided borough: residents both old and new, community activists, developers and politicos.
In their Boston debut, The Civilians will present this dramatic story using actual words from the interviews, showing many sides of this multifaceted issue and the process behind one of the largest urban developments in the country. Far from an indictment of the project, In the Footprint examines how the conflicts erupted, where the process went wrong, what is at the heart of urban communities, and what can be learned from the debates of the last seven years. “The company’s entertaining, insight-rich show…restored my faith in the ability of theater artists to engage meaningfully with the world, here and now.”
—New York Times
Sponsored by the Interaction Institute for Social Change
Date: Tuesday, November 16 – Thursday, November 18
Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm
Location: Interaction Institute for Social Change (70 Fargo St, Suite 908 Boston, MA 02210)
Whole Measures – A Tool for Creating Change
Whole Measures offers a flexible approach to describing and measuring the relationships and impact we seek
to create in our communities and organizations. It helps us to understand how to evaluate our work in a
holistic way that aligns with our values and communicates that we are making real and lasting change. Whole
Measures provides the foundation for a highly integrated, whole systems approach that effectively embraces
a wide variety of issues such as social equity, biodiversity, human rights, ecosystem health, civic
engagement, and economic vitality.
The Center for Whole Communities and the Interaction Institute for Social Change collaborated and created a
workshop that explores the ten values-based practices detailed in Whole Measures. The workshop provides
the practical and transformational skills needed to collaboratively implement these practices in your
organization or community. This experience is particularly well suited to those charged with engaging diverse
stakeholders in a community or organizational change initiative.
Apply concrete skills for implementing Whole Measures, including answering these questions: ▪ What is the ultimate goal of our change effort? ▪ Who are the key stakeholders for this change effort? ▪ How do I involve stakeholders in decision-making? ▪ What is the overall process we will use in this change effort? ▪ What specific activities will we use to engage stakeholders? ▪ How do we effectively facilitate stakeholder conversations?
The Mel King Institute for Community Building is a collaborative program of MACDC and LISC and other public, private and nonprofit community development partners.
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