The Heartland Center for Leadership Development invites you to participate in the the final four webinars utilizing the Center's publication "5 Strategies for Active Economic Development." The first webinar covered strategy number one, "Stopping Economic Leakage" with participants from across the U.S. and Australia in attendance!
Each webinar in this series lasts only 30 minutes, enough time to enjoy a lunch break while participating in an online learning atmosphere designed to allow participation through webinar activities and peer learning.
Traditional Heartland Center webinars run for one hour but realizing the busy times you have, we are bolstering our offerings to include these 30-minute sessions.
The Heartland Center has a 25-year history and is known for our interactive workshop facilitation, our annual institutes, strategic planning, town hall meetings and now our webinars. Previous webinars have focused on board effectiveness, strengthening local leadership, appreciative inquiry and myths about the future of small towns. The Center also actively trains other organizations to conduct their own webinars.
You can register for one webinar for $35.00 (US), or save 20% by registering for the rest of the series by clicking on the link below. You can also receive more information about the dates and times for the webinars by clicking on the "get more information" link. Registration is limited to the first 100 people, so register today. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Kurt Mantonya.
2011-10-14
2011-07-11
2011 Community Capitals Institute
Contact
Kurt MantonyaHeartland Center for Leadership Development
402-474-7667
When
Monday October 10, 2011 at 8:00 AM CDT-to-
Tuesday October 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM CDT
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Where
Embassy Suites Des Moines--On the River101 East Locust Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
Driving Directions
2011 Community Capitals Institute:
Community Capitals and Measurement;
Evaluating System Change and Sustainability
Monday October 10, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. to Tuesday October 11, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. in Des Moines, IA.
Held in Conjunction with the World Food Prize
Are you currently using the Community Capitals Framework in your work? If so, we would like to learn about your approach and methods. This year's Community Capitals Framework (CCF) Institute will feature several sessions on data collection, coding and analysis using the CCF in addition to small group sessions created by participants' work.
We are particularly interested in how the Community Capitals Framework is being using to understand the impact of community change work, leadership development, climate change, sustainability and community readiness and resiliency. We are also interested in strategies to engage communities and organizations using the Community Capitals Framework. Finally, we want to bring great minds together to discuss strategies for collecting and analyzing data that can help us better under successful community and system-level change using the CCF.
If you are interested in participating in the program, please send an abstract of your work (of up to 500 words) along with keywords to Mary Emery by August 15, 2011.
Registration for this year's conference is $150.00 USD which includes refreshments and a catered dinner of local foods on Monday night. Registration and payment can be completed at the bottom of this announcement.
About the World Food Prize
The World Food Prize is the foremost international award recognizing -- without regard to race, religion, nationality, or political beliefs -- the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
The Prize recognizes contributions in any field involved in the world food supply -- food and agriculture science and technology, manufacturing, marketing, nutrition, economics, poverty alleviation, political leadership and the social sciences.
The World Food Prize emphasizes the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people. By honoring those who have worked successfully toward this goal, the Prize calls attention to what has been done to improve global food security and what can be accomplished in the future.
Hotel Registration Information
A block of rooms have been reserved for October 9, 2011-October 10, 2011. The special room rate of $145.00 USD/night will be available until September 9th or until the group block is sold out, whichever comes first. Booking a reservation is simple. Click on this link to be directed to the reservation page for the Community Capitals Institute.
2011-06-29
Save the Date: Community Capitals Framework Call for Participation
2011 Community Capitals Institute:
Community Capitals and Measurement;
Evaluating System Change and Sustainability
Monday October 10, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. to Tuesday October 11, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. in Des Moines, IA.
Held in Conjunction with the World Food Prize
Are you currently using the Community Capitals Framework in your work? If so, we would like to learn about your approach and methods. This year's Community Capitals Framework (CCF) Institute will feature several sessions on data collection, coding and analysis using the CCF in addition to small group sessions created by participants' work.
We are particularly interested in how the Community Capitals Framework is being using to understand the impact of community change work, leadership development, climate change, sustainability and community readiness and resiliency. We are also interested in strategies to engage communities and organizations using the Community Capitals Framework. Finally, we want to bring great minds together to discuss strategies for collecting and analyzing data that can help us better under successful community and system-level change using the CCF.
If you are interested in participating in the program, please send an abstract of your work (of up to 500 words) along with keywords to Mary Emery memery@iastate.edu by August 15, 2011.
Registration information will be available soon at http://www.heartlandcenter.info/
Also watch for upcoming webinars on CCF.
About the World Food Prize
The World Food Prize is the foremost international award recognizing -- without regard to race, religion, nationality, or political beliefs -- the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
The Prize recognizes contributions in any field involved in the world food supply -- food and agriculture science and technology, manufacturing, marketing, nutrition, economics, poverty alleviation, political leadership and the social sciences.
The World Food Prize emphasizes the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people. By honoring those who have worked successfully toward this goal, the Prize calls attention to what has been done to improve global food security and what can be accomplished in the future.
2011-02-08
New Webinar Series on Social Media and Community Development
We are putting together a new webinar series on Social Media and Community Development that will start in March and conclude in May. The topics will address social media topics and uses, webinar best practices and finally how all the first two can help you stratagize a social media marketing media campaign for your community. Click on the link below for more details and registration information.
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2011-02-02
History of United States American Indian Policy: Using the Community Capitals Framework to Analyze US American Indian Policy and How American Indians
Below is my abstract for a presentation at this year's Community Development Society annual meeting in Boise, Idaho. If you recall, my last presentation was an ethnohistorical approach to the community capitals in Chaco Canyon. I was able to detect a loss in a major capital, natural, through the major episodes of drought. This drought ultimately led to the diminishment in the other capitals eventually leading to abandonment in the canyon. Please take a minute and look my abstract over and give me some feedback or recommendations to research.
The seven Community Capitals as identified by Flora and Flora (Natural, Built, Social, Human, Financial, Cultural and Political) play a key role in the health and vitality of not only contemporary communities but can be used as a lens to examine historic social structures. Past research by the author has demonstrated that the capitals are interdependent and when one is removed, the others follow suit. This removal could have been done naturally such as a drought, or through national policies used to justify the diminishment of a culture.
This paper will look at how the United States removed various capitals from American Indians in order to achieve Manifest Destiny through the history of federal policy in Indian Country and will include an examination of Removal and Relocation, Treaty Making, Allotment and Assimilation, Reform and Reorganization and Termination and Relocation. This paper will also explore how through self-determination and building a path to sovereignty, American Indians are leveraging the community capitals to persevere in a new century.
2011-01-10
Mandates from Above
Today, I am posting the second challenge facing new leaders from our publication, "Eight Challenges Facing New Leaders." This challenge, facing mandates from above is about state, federal and local mandates that create headaches for community leadership.
Challenge No. 2: Mandates from Above
Unfunded mandates from state or federal governments further complicate the fiscal challenges that community leaders face, as they are compelled to institute or continue programs for which no additional financing is forthcoming. Yet, refusing to accept such mandates may endanger support for other programs. The community may not object to the program rationale for a particular mandate, but without the accompanying financial support the result is another complication in the tasks that community leaders must complete. To get their message back up the chain of bureaucratic control, community leaders must join with others in similar circumstances to increase the impact of the local perspective.
Challenge No. 2: Mandates from Above
Unfunded mandates from state or federal governments further complicate the fiscal challenges that community leaders face, as they are compelled to institute or continue programs for which no additional financing is forthcoming. Yet, refusing to accept such mandates may endanger support for other programs. The community may not object to the program rationale for a particular mandate, but without the accompanying financial support the result is another complication in the tasks that community leaders must complete. To get their message back up the chain of bureaucratic control, community leaders must join with others in similar circumstances to increase the impact of the local perspective.
2011-01-04
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