Free June 27 PolicyLink Webinar on Regional Equity Networks

From PolicyLink:

"JOIN US FOR A WEBINAR:
The Power of Regional Equity Networks
 Wednesday, June 27, 2012
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (PST) / 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (EDT)

Regional Equity networks and coalitions are taking the lead in shaping the implementation of equity-focused public policies that build and sustain communities of opportunity across America.

This webinar will explore the formation and sustainment of effective regional equity networks and coalitions. Whether you are thinking about forming, developing, or strengthening an equity network/coalition, join this webinar to gain valuable strategies to catalyze your work by:

• Building successful cross-sector partnerships
• Governance and management
• Developing a shared policy agenda
• Building support to win local, state and federal investments for equity

To register now click here. 
Join regional equity leaders working on Sustainable Communities, strong economies, transportation equity, regional fair housing, and healthy communities. 

Moderators

• Kalima Rose, Director, PolicyLink Center for Infrastructure Equity
• Sarita Turner, Sustainable Communities Fellow, PolicyLink

Presenters

• Heidi Hall, Equity Network Manager, Impact Capital/Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Puget Sound, WA
• Nathaniel Smith, Partnership for Southern Equity, Director, Partnerships and Research for Equitable Development, Emory Office of University-Community Partnerships, Atlanta, GA
• Katherine Valenzuela, Coalition on Regional Equity (CORE), Regional Equity Coordinator at Sacramento Housing Alliance Sacramento, CA

Thank You, PolicyLink"

June 12 Webinar on Conservation Innovation Forum: Pulling Together for the Chesapeake

From Harvard's Ash Center:

"Conservation Innovation Forum: Pulling Together for the Chesapeake

June 12, 2012 | 11 am - 12 pm EDT

~This is a free, online event. Registration is required.~

 *** REGISTER NOW ***

Join us on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 11 am EDT for a live, online Webinar with Joel Dunn, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Conservancy, and John Maounis, National Park Service Superintendent of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historical Trail.

Dunn and Maounis will describe their collaborative efforts to pull together public, private, nonprofit, and academic organizations throughout the Chesapeake watershed to achieve lasting conservation outcomes related to recreation, clean water, wildlife habitat conservation, and sustainable resource utilization.

The session will be moderated by James Levitt, Director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University, and a Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

There will be ample time to take questions from the audience."

Jan 20 Webinar on Social Media Strategies: Using, Organizing, Monitoring and Responding

From the American Planning Association:

"Please join APA on January 20 for "Social Media Strategies: Using, Organizing, Monitoring and Responding," the final webinar in Communications Boot Camp. Learn what social media tools are available to your organization and how both supporters and critics of planning are employing social media nationwide. Register now to reserve your spot...

Presenters include Mary Beth Ikard, Communications Director at the Nashville MPO; Mittie Rooney from Axiom Communications Group; Robin Rather of Collective Strength; and Randy Simes, founder of the blog UrbanCincy. You will leave this presentation with actionable advice on implementing a social media strategy in your community and monitoring online chatter about planning.

This and all Communications Boot Camp resources are freely available to APA members. Communications Boot Camp does not offer CM credit."

Register at http://www.planning.org/policy/communicationsbootcamp/

Crowd-Sourced Wikis for Government

We're glad to share the link to the recording for this recent webinar program, courtesy of CPAP Phd Student Jacob Parcell:

Social collaboration tools can welcome interested people to contribute ideas that help your agency develop policy. Hear how Ontario, Canada, used a social innovation wiki to gather public input for a policy paper on Social Innovation that helped them implement Ontario’s social innovation strategy.

In this webinar, Allyson Hewitt from SiG@MaRS, and Anne Bermonte from Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, will share lessons learned, and discuss the opportunities and ongoing challenges of using social media to develop policy. Syracuse University's Ines Mergel will discuss her research of federal, state and local agencies' use of wikis, and how she created a checklist for creating and maintaining a wiki.

http://www.howto.gov/training/classes/crowd-source-wiki

Nov 16 Webinar: Does Collaboration Work? Evidence for the Field of Whole System Collaboration & Change

From Nexus4Change:

"Join us for a Free Webinar:

Does Collaboration Work? Evidence for the Field of Whole System Collaboration & Change
Live, online, from your desktop or mobile device!(Learn More)
Are you seeking new ways to more effectively meet one or more of the following challenges?

Widely dispersed organizations involving internal and external stakeholders
Immediate crises with little time to respond and high need for collective action
Developing the next generation of talent
Technology’s potential for collaboration
Polarized and politicized environments
Diverse groups and communities
Global and cross-cultural initiatives

If you answered YES... then join us as we explore the emerging field of Whole System Collaboration & Change. Our focus will be on the current state of research and practice. The field is still divergent with people who practice, lead, research, and educate based on a collection of approaches often referred to as Large Group Methods, Large-Scale Change, Large-Group Interventions, etc. The approaches are unique because they create conditions for dramatic transformations in whole organizations and communities based on two powerful assumptions: high involvement and a systemic approach to improvement. High involvement means engaging the people in changing their own system. It is systemic because there is a conscious choice to include the people, functions, and ideas in order to leverage the highest possible value for the effort invested.

Register Now! https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/145393994

Sincerely,

Steve

Steven H. Cady, Ph.D.
Graduate Faculty, MOD Program
Director, Institute for Organizational Effectiveness Bowling Green State University"

Webinar: Virginia Brownfields Restoration and Econ Redev Assistance Fund

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

This presentation is to provide guidance in applying for the Virginia Brownfields Assistance Fund. Local governments/political subdivisions will be eligible to apply for this money which will be dispersed to successful applicants. Rob McClintock of VEDP and Meade Anderson of DEQ will discuss the VBAF and provide guidance in completing the application.

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/<wbr></wbr>register/515530921

Wed Aug 17: Sustainable Communities Grant Program Webinar

We're glad to share this announcement from PolicyLink:

Wednesday
August 17, 2:00-3:00 pm EDT

Sustainable Communities Grant Program: Making Equity in Housing, Transportation, and Jobs the Heart of Your Region's Application

"The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has recently announced its second year of Sustainable Communities funding to allow regions to plan for strengthening their economies. The $65 million HUD-DOT-EPA Sustainable Communities Regional Planning grants and the $28 million HUD-DOT Challenge grants are an important and new opportunity to make this happen. Please see the Notice of Funding Availability. Pre-applications are due August 25th, with full applications due September 26th. A key success factor in the creation of sustainable regions is planning for greater economic and social inclusion of communities, workers, and places that have been left behind.  

Join PolicyLink, HUD, and leading regional planners to discuss best equity practices to drive planning and investments in housing, health, environment, transportation, and other infrastructure needs. And learn about the PolicyLink 2011 Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Guide to help build best practices for addressing equity into a winning application and planning process. The guide also highlights successful applicants from the 2010 grant rounds.

Speakers:

• Dwayne Marsh, Senior Advisor, HUD Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities
• Jeff Taebel, Director, Community and Environmental Planning, Houston-Galveston Area Council
• Tracy Reich, Director, Community Programs, Impact Capital, Seattle Washington

Moderator:

• Kalima Rose, Director, PolicyLink Center for Infrastructure Equity

We look forward to having you on the webinar." 

Webinar Series: Sustainable Development in the National Capital Region

We're glad to share this announcement from HousingPolicy.org:

"Join us for our Live at the Forum Summer Series: Sustainable Development in the National Capital Region, a three-part webinar series highlighting exciting and innovative projects in the Washington, D.C., metro region. 

The series will serve as a venue for discussion about the initiatives within the metro region and as a way of introducing leaders and practitioners across the U.S. to local-level efforts to promote affordable housing and sustainable communities. Speakers will log in to the HousingPolicy.org Forum directly following the presentations to continue the discussion and respond to listener questions.

• Wednesday, July 27 - Budget-Oriented Development

• Thursday, August 4 - Thinking Globally, Planning Regionally

• Tuesday, August 9 - Preserving Affordability

The webinar series will help queue up topics that will be covered in more detail at the upcoming Solutions for Sustainable Communities: 2011 Learning Conference on State & Local Housing Policy from the Center for Housing Policy and National Housing Conference. The conference will take place in Washington, D.C., September 26-28, 2011. See the event page at NHC.org for more details."

Free June 27 PACE Webinar: 'Using Online Tools to Engage-and be Engaged by-the Public'

Sponsored by PACE-Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement "Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/549873707

Please join us for this PACE webinar featuring our friend and colleague Matt Leighninger of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium. How can online tools help you engage citizens in public decision-making and problem-solving? What are the most common mistakes being made by public managers and other leaders as they try to work with the public online? In a given scenario, which tools and tactics seem most appropriate and effective? Using Online Tools to Engage – and be Engaged by – the Public, a new report from the IBM Center for the Business of Government, delves into these questions, describes a range of scenarios and tactics, and gives real-world examples of online engagement. It highlights over 40 different technologies in use today to support various kinds of public participation. Matt Leighninger, who wrote the report, is Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, an alliance of the major organizations and leading scholars working in the field of deliberation and public engagement. The DDC represents more than 50 foundations, nonprofit organizations, and universities, collaborating to support research activities and advance democratic practice, in North America and around the world. Over the last seventeen years, Matt has worked with public engagement efforts in over 100 communities, in 40 states and four Canadian provinces. He is the author of The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule is Giving Way to Shared Governance – and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same. Chris Gates, the Executive Director of PACE-Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, will moderate the discussion. PACE is an affinity group of the Council on Foundations and works as a learning collaborative of foundations doing work in the field of democratic theory and practice. Title: PACE Webinar: 'Using Online Tools to Engage-and be Engaged by-the Public' Date: Monday, June 27, 2011 Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer"

Free June 16 Partnership for Sustainable Communities Webinar

Join the senior leadership of the federal Partnership for Sustainable Communities on Thursday, June 16, 2011 to celebrate the Partnership's two-year anniversary and to talk about what initiatives are coming next.

What:	Celebrating Two Years of Partnership
Who:	Beth Osborne, Deputy Assistant Secretary, DOT; Shelley Poticha, Director, Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, HUD; John Frece, Director, Office of Sustainable Communities, EPA; and Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs (Invited)
When:	Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 1:00 PM EDT
Where:	Click here to register for this webinar. Call-in information will be sent to registrants.

On June 16, 2009, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined together to help communities nationwide improve access to affordable housing, increase transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment to better support local economies.

The Partnership for Sustainable Communities works to coordinate federal housing, transportation, water and other infrastructure investments to make neighborhoods more prosperous, allow people to live closer to jobs, save households time and money, and reduce pollution. Over the past two years, the Partnership has visited with residents and business leaders in hundreds of communities, coordinated to provide new funding opportunities, and worked to reduce barriers at the federal level. For more on the Partnership, visit www.sustainablecommunities.gov.
 

NADO Webinar

NADO’s next webinar has just been approved for 1.5 AICP CM credits. The webinar “Social Media and Electronic Participation in Regional Planning and Economic Development” will occur on Wednesday, March 30, from 2 – 3:30 Eastern. The webinar is free but requires registration, which is available online at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/887145003. The webinar will include an overview of social media uses and demographics, as well as case studies of two regional planning and development organizations effectively using social media in their outreach. Speakers will include Mia Zmud, NuStats; Jeremy Holmes, Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission; Amy Lowe, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission; and Jeff Moore, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, as moderator. This webinar is a reprise of a session held jointly during the 2010 National Rural Transportation Conference and AMPO Annual Conference—since it was one of the most popular sessions for those who attended the conferences, the webinar should offer great information, and it includes different program staff of regional planning and development organizations as panel members.