[Partnerships] Community Planning in "Year 2.5"

[Bill Campbell]

Hello again to All,

Listed below is the information on a workshop entitled "Local Demograpics
Analysis Workshop, Suffolk County".  It is designed for human service
providers, neighborhood activists, grant writers, planners, or anyone who
would like to easily look up and analyze basic demographic characteristics.
The workshop will focus on Boston and Suffolk County.  It will teach you how
to access, analyze, and present 1990 and 2000 Census information.

The one day workshop (9am - 4:30 pm) will offered twice - April 4th and
April 5th at the Charles River Internet Center at 154 Moody Street in
Waltham. (tel. 781-891-9559). The cost of the workshop is $225.

The workshop is presented by:
    Smartgirls Technologies
    2631 NW Upshur #33
    Portland, Oregon 97210
    (510) 234 - 5959
    info at smartgirltechnologies.com

To sign up, contact Smartgirls Technologies by phone or through their web
site.

Bill Campbell
Navin Associates

----- Original Message -----
From: Navin <navinassociates at attbi.com>
To: <partnerships at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:39 AM
Subject: [Partnerships] Community Planning in "Year 2.5"


> Hello to Everyone Doing ABE Community Planning:
>
> First, thank you to Cathy Gannon for asking us to guest host for a couple
of
> weeks.
>
> Bill Campbell and I might have met you in our workshop on community
> assessment at the Directors' Conference in Lenox.  Seems like a long time
> ago.  Since then, most community planning went on hold  because people
were
> busy saving and running their programs. (It's worth noting that some of
the
> partnerships built in Year One produced great allies for the successful
> budget fight.)
>
> In the last month or so, community assessment activities have heated up a
> lot in Boston, as programs unearthed their community planning workplans
from
> last year, and tried to make sense of them with more than half of the year
> gone and due dates pushed back.  We at Navin Associates have been busily
> playing catch-up, assisting neighborhood-based partnerships (that we call
> coalitions) and working on citywide secondary data collection.
>
> We have found down to earth dialogue helpful in this context, so we offer
> the following questions as jumping off points.  Feel free to respond one
or
> more of these or to raise something completely different.
>
> Chris Navin
>
> -- How did the state budget "anti-process" and what followed affect the
> membership and energy of your coalition?
>
> -- Have you tried to adapt the Year 2 Workplan that you did at the end of
> Year 1 or just start over? Why?
>
> -- What are the key community planning issues that you are working on at
> this point, if any?
>
> -- Given limited community planning funding, how are you choosing the
> issues/populations on which to focus your primary source data collection?
>
> --What is the most serious obstacle to completing the community assessment
> and how are you handling it?
>
>
>
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