[Partnerships] due date change of cp a/n assessment

[Gomes, Gary X]

Cathy,

As a PS working with several of my programs on this, they seem actually
quite grateful to have received the extension because they were attempting
to figure out how to do their community planning activity. The extension
(given as it was during the funding crisis) allowed them to concentrate on
the critical task of survival and to do a better and more thoughtful job on
their surveys and needs assessment. That is the bulk of the feedback that I
have received to date, in any event. And at least one of my programs plans
to meet this year's deadline.

All the best,

Gary Gomes 
Program Specialist DOE

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Alan Brickman [mailto:abrick at channel1.com]
		Sent:	Friday, February 22, 2002 12:11 PM
		To:	Cathy Gannon; partnerships at lists.literacytent.org
		Subject:	Re: [Partnerships] due date change of cp a/n
assessment

		Hi Cathy:

		I am working with two groups on their community assessment.
The postponement
		reinforces for people that this is basically a frivolous
		exercise/funder-hoop-to-jump-through that is unconnected to
the development
		of the partnership. They'll do it, but give it a lesser
priority for now,
		and the pushed back due date just means that people can
focus on other
		things for a while. There are not sufficient resources to
conduct the
		assessment the way that DOE describes it, anyway. May 2003
is so far into
		the 5 year funding cycle, that by the time the data will be
available to
		support the strategic planning at the community level, the
funding cycle
		will be over.  Another example of how community planning was
a wonderful
		idea that was ruined in the way it was implemented.

		-- Alan


		----- Original Message -----
		From: Cathy Gannon <CGannon at qcc.mass.edu>
		To: <partnerships at lists.literacytent.org>
		Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:33 PM
		Subject: [Partnerships] due date change of cp a/n assessment


		> Hi Community Planning Coordinators et al,   I am wondering
what effect the
		> postponement of the community planning assessment of
assets and needs has
		> had upon the work of your partnership.    Are you
progressing as you had
		> originally planned?  How have you changed your assessment
plan because of
		> the extra time available?  Has everything gone on the back
burner?  Does
		the
		> extra time necessarily mean a better assessment ?
		>
		> We (all of us on this list!) are interested in how you are
handling this.
		>
		> Cathy Gannon
		>
		>
		>
		>
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