Community Development has many strategies and approaches, many tools and techniques. Over the years I have worked in areas policy research and advocacy, to place based community organizing, to asset mobilization and community economic development. Having taught over 25 different post secondary courses related capacity building for healthy communities and social change I can help your group link theory and practice for powerful impacts.
The services I offer include:
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Designing and Conceptualizing |
Moving from challenges to ideas, vision and action plans |
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Visioning and Planning |
Collective Dreaming and Participatory Planning - using all the brains and experience in groups and communities |
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Training and Facilitating |
Leading engaging, experiential workshops from 1 hour to multi-week training programs |
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Mentoring and Supporting |
Working with new or advancing staff, boards and volunteers to develop CD skills, knowledge, self-confidence, self-efficacy and understanding |
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Organizing and Developing |
Community organizing, worker or volunteer engagement, moving from corporate and charity models to community empowerment models |
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Writing and Speaking |
Columns, poems, articles, essays, guest lecture, guest speaker, host, emcee. |
Offering a session with me as a fundraising event, live or digital, can help your organization build capacity and raise money at the same time. I have many social innovation tools for digital fundraising, such as jeopardy games, participatory poetry, as well as dozens of creative and engaging learning experiences.