[Partnerships] Community Planning in "Year 2.5"

[Cathy Gannon]

Hi all and welcome Chris.

I'm especially interested in hearing about the obstacles - and how you have
overcome them - you have faced in planning and conducting your community
assets/needs assessments.  

Cathy


-----Original Message-----
From: Navin [mailto:navinassociates at attbi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:40 AM
To: partnerships at lists.literacytent.org
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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