| March 10, 2010 | | 9:00 am | to | 4:30 pm |
Sharing Skills ~ Building Connections Conference 2010
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Time: 9:00am – 4:30pm
Location: DCU Center, Worcester
The Commonwealth Workforce Coalition (CWC) is hosting it’s seventh annual Sharing Skills – Building Connections Conference with an emphasis on strategies to adapt to changing economic environments. This conference includes small workshop sessions, a luncheon, and networking opportunities.
Conference Fees:
$65.00 early registration (payment received by February 12 at 4pm)
$90.00 (after February 12)
Registration Deadline is February 26 at 4pm
Additional information and registration here
Please contact Rebecca Harris with any questions:
617-727-5944
rharris@cedac.org
| January 26, 2010 8:00 am | to | January 27, 2010 4:00 pm |
Date: January 26 – 27, 2010
Time: 8:00am – 4:00pm
Location: 4000 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016 (Fannie Mae Conference Room)
RSVP: By Monday, January 11, 2010
Neighborhood Stabilization 2010: Issues, Ideas and Solutions provides an opportunity for professionals involved in neighborhood stabilization efforts across the country to exchange ideas, share best practices, and brainstorm potential solutions for some of the toughest housing issues facing our communities today.
Additional information and registration here.
| January 12, 2010 | | 1:30 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Time: 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: City Year Headquarters (287 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Robert K. Triest, Vice President and Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
This event is Co-Sponsored by the Associated Grant Makers, The Boston Foundation, the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, Third Sector New England and United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley and will provide an overview of the economy – nationally and locally – and what indicators the Federal Reserve sees in terms of signs of recovery and ongoing challenges.
The event is free and open to funders as well as nonprofits, but space is limited, so please register in advance at: StateoftheSector2010
If you have any questions about this program, please contact Miki Akimoto or Gail Pinkham.
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.
| December 11, 2009 | | 12:00 pm | to | 1:30 pm |
Hear from experts in the field with the School of Community Economic Development’s 2009-2010 Speaker’s Series
The December 11th Speaker Series Event is free and open to the public.
Please join Southern New Hampshire University Staff and Students from noon-1:30pm in Robert Frost’s Walker Auditorium
The December guest speaker will be Ilana Preuss of the Transportation for America Campaign. Ilana is the Director of the Transportation for America Campaign, a broad, diverse and unprecedented coalition advocating for a national vision for a 21st century transportation system.
All School of Community Economic Development Speaker Series events will be streamed live starting at 12:30pm. In addition, visitors to www.snhu.edu/ced will be able to download the taped events after they have ended.
For additional information and to RSVP contact:
Anthony Poore
apoore@snhu.edu
| October 28, 2009 | | 8:30 am | to | 10:30 am |
Please join The Boston Foundation on Wednesday, October 28 for an Understanding Boston forum titled “The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2009.” Immediately following the forum will be a Commonwealth Housing Task Force Plenary Session. The event will take place at the Boston Foundation’s office on 75 Arlington Street from 8:30 to 10:30 am.
Panel Speakers include:
Karl Case, Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
Elyse Cherry, CEO, Boston Community Capital
Alicia Sasser, Senior Economist, New England Public Policy Center
Timothy Warren, CEO, The Warren Group
E-mail rsvp@tbf.org for registration
The Commonwealth Seminar is intended as a resource for leaders from communities of color, immigrant groups, and others working to directly benefit those communities. Diverse leaders will gain an inside perspective about working with the Legislature, and graduates will leave with an understanding of basic legislative and budgetary perspective. In addition, a minor theme of the Fall 2009 Seminar, since it will be housed at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, will be “Place”, and participants will have the opportunity to hear from advocates working to build community in greater Boston.
2009 Seminar Schedule:
October 14 -evening
October 23 -morning
October 28 -evening
November 11 -evening
November 20 -morning
Online Application
Application Deadline is October 2nd
Please direct any questions to Jenn Chin:
jenn@masscs.org
The Interdisciplinary Consortium on Urban Planning and Public Health is hosting a fall Kick-Off Meeting on Thursday, October 15th. Returning participants will have the opportunity to catch up with current staff and projects while new visitors will be able to familiarize themselves with ICUPPH’s Urban Health goals and initiatives.
Meeting Schedule:
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 5pm
Northeastern University Institute on Urban Health Research
310 International Village
1165 Tremont St. Boston, MA
http://icupph.wikidot.com/
icupph@gmail.com
| September 17, 2009 | | 3:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm | | September 24, 2009 | | 3:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Northeastern University is offering a FREE class this fall. The course is called “The 21st Century City: Urban Opportunities and Challenges in a Global Context,” and will meet Thursday evenings, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm, starting September 10. Instructors: Barry Bluestone, Dean, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs and Director, Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy and Paul Grogan, President, The Boston Foundation and Visiting Professor, Northeastern University
Thursday Evenings, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
September 10 – December 10
West Village F, Room 20
Contact and Registration Information:
617-373-8900
http://www.policyschool.neu.edu/open_classroom/
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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