CommunityCollab latest work updates

Nancy: hospice care

Cymen: Fixed issue with the search engine here on CommunityCollab. I apologize for it being down!

Taryn: Metro Chicago Information Center (MCIC) assists nonprofits and governments agencies to understand and track their impact using the best data available -- www.mcic.org.

David: Led the development of a regional food security project: www.shalomfarms.org.

David: * Building “whole” and transformative community relationships.

* Catalyzing creative discovery of previously unrecognized resources.

* Connecting people, organizations, institutions, and associations

* Facilitating and hosting opportunities for mutual learning

* Developing teams that produce and deliver effective community-transforming projects

* Advocating for social, economic, physical, political, and spiritual equity and justice

* Coaching leaders and teams to produce measurable, transformative outcomes

* Providing national and international ABCD and community organizing training using Shalom Zone Training (www.communitiesofshalom.org)

Maggie: Business retention & expansion, entrepreneurship, marketing our community, artist residency program

Sherron D.: Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. has partnered with Childrens Defense Fund (CDF) & Quitman County Development Office (QCDO) to address Women in Agriculture (SRBWI).

Sherron D.: Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. and Rural People Rural Policy Network have been working on addressing Childhood Obesity in MS, AR, & LA.

Sherron D.: Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. and Mid South Delta LISC have been working on the Greenville Sustainable Community Iniative (GSCI) Quality of Life Plan Phase 2:Implementation.

Robert : Energy Efficiency Workforce Intermediary
Training and Development
Consulting, Budget and Operations
Community Art Collaborative

Peter: Youth preventive psychosocial interventions.

Lyn: WVG has been comparing different food growing systems, including the viability of indoor farming in both rural and urban settings.

Grace: Sustainable communities quality of life planning.

Katherine: I volunteered on the Minnesota Design Team in Howard Lake, MN to help them articulate their goals and values, and communicated economic development resources that would be applicable for their community.

Aryt: As part of responsible-investment proposals for university endowment funds, hope to make compelling argument regarding community investments.

Paul: Like many other people, trying to figure out how to measure changes in social capital in an individual community, while tossing around on the sea of a rough economy.

David: Has anyone used the New Haven Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey 2010 to measure neighborhood social capital or activation? What were the results?

Joe: Working with a collaborative of organizations submitting a Renaissance grant application. Just completed a mapping of city infrastructure ie. stop signs, sidewalks, drains, gutters, pedestrian crossing road strips, around the proposed zone.

Charles: While I love this new initiative, I would suggest you expand the list of expertise to include Community Economic Development CED (that I am blessed to have a Master's in) because it is not the same as Community Development or Economic Development. I would also add options for Successful Living Skills for the 21st century such as Infopreneurship.

My present priorities are launching our non-profit Ultimate Destiny University for Successful Living and our Expanding the Circle of Success Campaign to help establish a network of CAN DO! CED Empowerment Resource Centers, partly to help residents create and save jobs. We also share a vision for "The United State of Americans" as a strategy for helping fulfill the "ultimate destiny of the USA" which Benjamin Franklin said was not power, but light, Imagine That!

Lauren: Municipal Grants

Cymen: Resolved issue with outgoing email from www.communitycollab.org not functioning correctly in some cases.

David: Researching how to measure an "activated neighborhood."

Karen: I am the Community Development Act Office of a community bank. I am also on the Board of a housing non-profit that is building permanent housing for disabled veterans and permanent housing for homeless families. We also want to have a preschool for homeless children in the building. Plus we already have transitional housing in both apartments and scattered site single family.

Ashley: Working on our five major service areas: Community Organizing, Community Outreach, Community Safety, Community Development, and Youth Development.

Brent: My company develops, owns and manages affordable housing communities throughout the Mid-Atlantic states, with the heaviest concentration in Delaware. I recently worked on a blended tax credit/HUD 202 application to do a gut rehab of a historic mansion and convert it into 6 units of low-income, 62+ housing, adding a 29-unit addition to its rear.