From: Conner, Felisa
[mailto:FConner@ci.garland.tx.us]
Sent:
Subject: FW: Neighborhood Summit
Importance: High
Breakfast
and Lunch Provided
Don’t
miss the opportunity to dramatically enhance the work you do in neighborhoods. Every neighborhood based
group and individuals working towards organizing should be at the Atrium on
Saturday, October 24 for the 2009 Neighborhood Summit.
“Great Neighborhoods: From Concept
to Reality”
Atrium at the
Keynote Address:
"Empowered Residents, Revitalized Cities"
Speaker:
Robert Miller, Director
Minneapolis
Neighborhood Revitalization Program
To register, call or e-mail Felisa Conner,
972-205-3864 or fconner@ci.garland.tx.us
.
Doors open
at 7:00 a.m. for sign-in and continental breakfast.
Mayor's Welcome Address begins at 8:00
a.m.
Workshops
Begin at 8:30 a.m.
Building a Sustainable Organization: Presenters will discuss
the importance of "turning your organization inside out," and will
provide real examples of how
Developing Effective Partnerships: This workshop will cover
what you need to think about before you form a partnership: how to analyze your
organization and prepare yourself for a partnership; what you gain and what you
give up; how to identify and motivate potential partners; barriers and pitfalls
to partnerships; and how to establish and sustain successful partnerships.
Developing a Resident Driven Action
Plan: Workshop
will focus on information gathering techniques, a demonstrated and realistic
structure for creating a neighborhood driven plan, implementation steps,
and how to keep a plan current.
Understanding Community Leadership: This workshop will challenge
different definitions of leadership, and will provide ideas and examples of how
leadership works in communities.
Felisa
Conner
Office of
Neighborhood Vitality
"Providing
tools to manage neighborhood change"
972-205-3864/972-205-2474
fax
Register
for GNMA classes online at www.GarlandVitalNeighborhoods.org or http://play.garlandparks.com/play