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name = patrick howard
email = pbhowar@city.norfolk.va.us
Office of Neighborhoods, City of Norfolk, VA
Neighborhood Planning, Citizen-based education. Resource builiding Partnerships
name = Ted Koebel
descrip1 = Professor of housing and urban planning at Virginia Tech.
Director of the Center for Housing Research.
Active in nonprofit housing as a researcher, consultant, and board member
Currently helping to develop a Neighborhood Networks Center at an assisted housing complex in Southwest Virginia.
I'm Pres Eaton, President of The Federation of Forsyth County Homeowners. We are an association of Homeowners Associations, Neighborhood Groups and
Individuals. We began to see the need for the voice of the Forsyth County (about 40 minutes NE of Atlanta, Georgia, USA) Homeowner to be heard, in the summer of 1994 we drafted a Statement of Purpose, to wit:
1.
The voice of the homeowner needs to be heard by the local government,
2. The local government can use us as a sounding board on issues of concern to them and us,
3. We can help each other by sharing our success stories and problems,
4. We can band together on contracts of mutual interest such as landscaping, insurance, etc.
name = Jonathon Dow
email = BONDSPROGRAM@MINDSPRING.COM
BONDS stands for Building Our Neighborhoods for Development and Success and is designed to strengthen local community associations through the awarding of small grants and
development through our leadership training programs. Located in Montgomery,AL, this program has been in existence for the past three years and have awarded over $65,000 to 35 communities within our city.
name = Janet Keasler
email = Zydecogrl@yahoo.com
descrip1 = I
am a Community Resources Representative of the City of Birmingham, Alabama. We have an active Citizen Participation Program involving all 99 of Birmingham's neighborhoods.
name = bob
descrip1 = Buncombe County Drug Commission, Inc.
Asheville, NC 28801
substance abuse prevention including in-school programs,
adult education/parenting training, community/neighborhood development, community awareness, public policy
Regina Haynes
I currently a Graduate Student at UNC Chapel Hill School of Social Work. My concentration area is with Families and Children. I am currently
completing my final field placement in a local school system in NC. We are working to develop community partnerships with schools to meet resource needs in the public system. This work is in ametropolitan area with
many corporations, and high incomes. However, there are quite a few areas that has extremely poor living conditions. My focus in this placement is to work with one particular fragile school and area to mobilize
resources in the neighborhood. I've also done a great deal of work in Child Protective Services in the pastI am also on task force with various community leaders to enhance entoring programs. I think this
group would be helpful to me for discussion of issues faced by others in this field. I plan to continue community type work when I graduate in May 1998.
Toni Hubbard
Greenwood, South Carolina. Greenwod Area Chamber of Commerce. Office of Neighborhood Development
Neighborhood Associations have come
together to form the Neighborhood Association Council (NAC). This council is to serve as a clearinghouse for neighborhood development
as well as a support committee of the Greenwoood Area Chamber of Commerce for community development activities throughout the county.
Through these neighborhood associations, the Self Memorial Hospital Community
Outreach Services has held health fairs and health education
classes in the neighborhoods. During our monthly meetings the Neighborhood Association Presidents have an opportunity to share information concerning the community. Guest speakers are invited at each meeting to discuss projects and information relative to neighborhood development. Activites to date
Wellness Celebration
National Night Out
"An evening with Jody Kretzman"
A Celebration of Community with Dr. Leland Kaiser
Health Fairs
Community Clean up days
Name: Nancy Songer City, State: Columbia, SC
Organization: Institute for Families in Society University of South Carolina Main Activities of Group: This is a multi-disciplinary research institute that seeks to enhance connections between families and their communities. TheInstitute conducts research and consults with policy-makers and communities about ways to strengthen neighborhoods and enhance family well-being. I specifically coordinate the Neighbors Helping Neighbors multi-institutional and media campaign. It is designed to increase mutually supportive relationships between neighbors in order to create a stronger social fabric and reduce many social ills.
I'm David Swain. from Jacksonville, Florida. I also oversee a major longitudinal
project that measures Jacksonville's quality of life annually through 75 indicators (similar to sustainability and benchmarking projects around the country; we were actually the major pioneer of these efforts; we started in 1985 and have done our annual updates ever since, while adding to the sophistication of the project each year). The QOL project has blossomed into a major means in Jacksonville of assessing community needs and taking action for collective improvement
> Name_Ronald M. Wilson
City, State_Orlando, FL
Organization_The Healthy Community Initiative of Greater Orlando
> Main Activities of Group
The Healthy Community Initiative of Greater Orlando (HCI) is a place where the Central Florida Community may pursue its collective dream to be the best place in the world to live.
HCI provides information, process, and facilitation to mobilize community builders to create and enhance assets in their neighborhoods, families, and businesses. HCI's approach recognizes that health, social and
public policy problems cross jurisdictional and organizational boundaries. More specifically, we conduct broad research (through surveys, focus groups and a wide array of community entities) and communication
(serving as a catalyst and facilitator) through effort in our four focus areas:
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: A Crusade for Children - making Central Florida the best place in the world to raise a family and be a
child; CONNECTEDNESS: Building community trusteeship through growing social capital;
DIVERSITY: Promoting the acceptance, appreciation, and building of all members of our community; and
CENTER FOR
TRUSTEESHIP: Establish a neutral community place for the free exchange of ideas.
> Name___Brian O'Shea>
> Organization__Cox Interactive Media____
> City, State___Orlando, Fla._________________
>
Group Goals/Activities My company is involved in online media, local news, information. My interest is largely personal. I write about urban affairs and neighborhood issues from time to time, but mostly these days I
do more reading and follow issues online.
name = Jean Carew
email = ACProd1@webtv.net
descrip1 = DOA (Denial Of Abuse)
Focuses on civilian spouses who were injured in th military while ontour /active duty through domestic violence. The goal is to bring awareness and stop government neglect and abused and help the victims
of domestic violence. Contact us at DOA, 4420 Fairfield Avenue South ,St. Petersburg, FL 33711
Name_Steven Plice_____________________
City, State_St. Petersburg, FL____________
Organization St. Petersburg Council of Neighborhood Assosciations
Main
Activities of Group_Assisting Neighborhood groups and activities within the City of Coral Springs
I am Steve Plice from St. Petersburg, Florida. I have been a reader (poor contributer) of this list for the past
year. I am vice president of the St. Petersburg Council of Neighborhood Associations (CONA) We are an "umbrella" group of 52 neighborhood associations throughout the City of St. Petersburg. Our web page
can be found at: http://webcoast.com/cona
Name: Arthur G. Thompson
Michael J Raposa
Neighborhood Program Coordinator
Hillsborough County Office of Neighborhood Relations
Tampa, FL
We coordinate the Board of County Commissioners activities with neighborhood associations (over 400) county-wide.I am Kelly Carpenter, I am an urban planner by training and experience. I work for local government as
a Department Director for Environmental and Engineering Services. I live and work in a city that is about 40 years old in suburban south Florida, north of Miami about 25 miles. It has about 50,000 population more
than half black, maybe a third or more immigrants from Jamaica and Haiti. The rest includes old and very old in condominiums and other lower middle and middle class folks. The center of the city (and it is not a
city at all but suburban sprawl) is dying. And I am determined not to let it die. There is a community council just organized, and economic development board; about a thousand units of section 8 housing; many more
renters than owners. . I am looking for others experience , strength and hope...we are at a beginning, not an end. We have no high school; our kids go outside the city for high school. about half go outside for
middle school. We are in the midddle of an urban county of 1 .3 million people in the middle of the metropolis of about 4 million . A charter school is one of the things I lthink of. A commuity based credit union. A
multilingual public tech school tied to a corporation that would have jobs. We also need a grocery store....they all left the central part of the city.
name = Andrea Batstone
email = andrea.batstone@ocfl.net
I am a
Senior Planner with the Neighborhood Services Section of the Orange County, Florida Planning Department. Neighborhood Services is committed to revitalizing distressed and declining communities throughout the County by means of crime prevention programs, land us planning techniques, community organizing facilitation, small area studies, economic development and neighbohood empowerment to name a few of our responsibilities.
name = Jeff Perlman
email = kathyandjeff@hotmail.com
descrip1 = I am a Delray Beach City Commissioner. We are embarking on a neighborhood renewal program and would appreciate any information on strategies.
name = H. C. Sonny Covington, Lafayette, La.
>email = ach1@sprynet.com
>descrip1 = A targeted neighborhood of approximately 12 city block square in a city of approximately
100,000 persons. the particular area is the lowest income and highest crime/drug area of the Parish (County), has the highest number and percentage of African American population and
the fewest resources. We have a physical presence in the neighborhhod as a long term service provider to the poor and the homeless and now find ourselves thrust in the middle of the largest "Welfare to
Work" response team in the area, mostly because since Jan 1997, our hot meal kitchen has gone from serving an averae of 245 meals a day to over 345 average for July. To date each month sees another increase.
Our homeless shelters in Lafayette have been full since June, and in the past ten years, they have NEVER been full in the summer months. We must develop a comprehensive plan of action to revitalize the community and
build up the people. We have been working to develop a working partnership with two other sevice providers that have been in the neighborhood and themselves own property and buildings to begin a dialogue with the
street leaders in the neighborhood.
NAME: Robert Burton
CITY, STATE: Shreveport, LA
ORGANIZATION: Council Assistant for Neighborhoods
Position: Clerk of Council, City of Shreveport
City, State: Shreveport, LA 71130
Shreveport does not have a long history of strong neighborhood organizations. However, a few years ago, the City Council established the
position of City Council Assistant for Neighborhoods (CCAN) in this office. The CCAN Coordinator provides limited assistance to neighborhood groups and assists Council members with neighborhood projects.
MAIN ACTIVITIES: To assist citizens improve neighborhoods by making them aware of the laws and policies of the city, especially ordinances and resolutions which have been adopted by the City Council, which are
designed to not only insure their health and safety but improve the appearances of neighborhoods and the City.
name = DONNA GUILLORY
email = donnaboo27@yahoo
LAKE CHARLES LA.(FIVE ACRES GROUP) CPL.TED TRUNICK WE ARE A GROUP OF NEIGHBORS FIGHTING TO HAVE CONTROL OF OUR
STREETS. WE'VE BEING GOING FOR NOT EVEN A YEAR NOW BUT HAVE MANY SUPPORTERS AND MANY SUCCESS STORIES!!!!
Name = Angela Brooks
I am a graduate student at Univ. of New Orleans. Interested community and economic development.
>Name____peggy munke_____________________________
>Organization__southeastern lousiana university social work program___________________________________>
City, State___hammond louisiana 70402
Group Goals/Activities___i i teach community organ and macro polciy and advocacy_____________________________________
Donald Voth, Department of Sociology, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas
Michael Penick
Organization Neighbor to Neighbor
City St. Louis State MO
Basic Goals/Activities
A university/community partnership thatcomprises Wyman Elementary School, Stevens Community Education Center,and Blumeyer Tenant Association and Community Center in collaborationwith nine Saint Louis University departments/agencies (Small Business Development Center, Family Development Center, Volunteer Outreach Center, School of Public Health, School of Social Service, Psychology Department, Public Policy Department, Communication Disorders Department, and Counseling and Family Therapy Department) to identify and align delivery of services that help families in the university's surrounding community. This collaboration uses McKnight and Kretzmann's asset-based community development model, with sensitivity toward members of the community as empowered citizens instead of clients.
Name = Marcella Palmieri
email = fpse@stlouis.missouri.org
The Forest Park Southeast Neighborhood is one of 79 neighborhoods in the City of St. Louis.
The Forest Park Southeast Housing Corporation is a small, not-for-profit housing corporation working in community development in the Forest Park Southeast Neighborhood.
John G. Clark
jgclark@gte.net
North
Central Columbia Neighborhood Association, Columbia, MO (see http//nccna.columbia.missouri.org - not current, but will give you some idea.)
Columbia and Boone County Neighborhood Alliance, Boone County, MO
(did a futures action planning process in 1998 to determine the purpose of the Alliance - to assist neighborhood associations in meeting their unique and mutual goals - and five vision/action areas to work on
to act on that purpose.)
name = Steve Shapiro
I am currently a graduate student in Architecture and Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. My interests
focus on the uses of design as a tool for community organizing and neighborhood revitalization. Projects I have worked on include: St. Louis Regional Empowerment Zone Application, Research Assistant: Fair Housing
Amendments Act Accessibility Study (HUD), St. Louis Community Information Network (web design, volunteer) Bridging the Rivers Project (building a database of riverfront
development activities along the Mississippi River)
>name = Suzanne Sexton
email = suzannes@metrouw.org
descrip1 = Louisville, KY
Metro United Way
The Vital Neighborhoods Team is in the process of researching national community-building initiatives and theory in order to eventually identify and allocate
funding to capacity-building neighborhood projects in the Metro Louisville area.
Name__Milton Dohoney_____________________________
> City, State_louisville, ky___________________________ > Organization_dept. community services
> Main Activities of Group_working with neighborhood associations, > block watches, cdcs,crime strategy implementation, beautification
Gwen Lauer,
Organization New Directions Housing Corporation
Louisville, KY
I am a new employee at New Directions, working as a
Neighborhood Development Specialist in the new Neighborhood Initiatives Program. We are just getting started in this asset-based approach to neighborhood development.
Lydia Prichard
Research & Development Associate
New Directions Housing Corporation
1000 East Liberty Street
Louisville, KY 40204
502/589-2272
I
work for New Directions Housing Corporation in Louisville KY. We develop affordable housing for low and moderate income families, and provide resident services and are expanding our services into neighborhood
development.
Name: Mary Turgi
Organization: Covington Community Center
City, State: Covington, KY 41012-1020
Group Goals/Activities: Covington Community Center
is a community development organization which works in a low income neighborhood of Covington, KY. Our primary activities are community organizing and leadership development among both adults and youth.
Mike Hodge, Joseph V. Purcell
Neighborhood Resource Center
2012 21st Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee 37212
(615) 385-9346
fax (615) 385-2157
We work with the
Neighborhood Resource Center here in Nashville, Tennessee. We provide technical assistance to neighborhoods who want to get themselves organized on quality of life issues important to the neighbors (e.g. crime,
environment, etc.). I have designed a Leadership Institute curriculum which I use to talk to people about; how to organize, how to develop relationships with those in power, how to develop relationships with the
media and how to run effective meetings etc. etc. etc. It is a lot of fun and has been well received hereabouts. We also do community organizing by going out into the neighborhoods to determine people's
self-interests and how best they can accomplish their self-interests. Another component of our project is providing information to neighborhood organizations on what is going on in their neighborhoods. We have a
pretty sophisticated mapping program called ArcView which we are learning and will enable us to do some detailed analysis on the characteristics of various neighborhoods.
Suzanne Rogers, Executive Director
Center for Neighborhood Development
900 Hill Ave., Suite 400
P.O. Box 2445
Knoxville, TN 37901
Phone 865-522-5935
Fax 865-522-5085
Email cnd@korrnet.org
The Center for Neighborhood Development is a non-profit corporation that serves neighborhood organizations is
Knoxville and Knox County, Tennessee. Its mission is to support the self-determination of
Knoxville's and Knox County's neighborhoods and to build the capacity of community-based organizations to improve those neighborhoods. We provide a wide range of free services including organizing, project development and management, leadership training, small grants, comprehensive neighborhood planning, an awards program, and neighborhood issue advocacy.
name = Patrice M. Armstrong
email = patricea@memphis.magibox.net
The City of Memphis, Division of Public Services, which includes Emergency Management Agency, Human Services, Mayor's Citizen Service Center, Animal Shelter, Motor Vehicle
Inspection Service, Office of Neighborhboods and Youth Service.
Name____Janis Foster___________________
City, State_ Memphis, TN_______________
Organization_ Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
Main Activities of Group_provides funding for neighborhood associations and community based organizations working in the Memphis area.
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