It has taken years of coordinated effort and hard work, hours of community outreach and engagement, and countless phone calls, e-mails, and Facebook posts, but your organization and consortium has finally made it – you are ready to design and publish your final regional plan! But how do you take the hundreds of pages of data, maps, and information and transform them into a document that everyday citizens, business leaders, local elected officials, and others will actually want to read and implement?
Join the NADO Research Foundation on Monday, June 16 from 2-3:15 ET (https://www2 NULL.gotomeeting NULL.com/register/816564514) to hear from three executive directors from rural regions whose organizations have published their final regional plans as part of the HUD Sustainable Communities Initiative. Learn what strategies and techniques they embraced to create a readable, engaging document that will continue to shape the conversation about community and economic development and quality-of-life in their regions for years to come.
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Presenters:
Cheryal Hills, Executive Director, Region Five Development Commission (MN) – Resilient Region Plan
(http://www NULL.resilientregion NULL.org/)Kevin Byrd, Executive Director, New River Valley Planning District Commission (VA) – Livability in the New River Valley
(http://nrvlivability NULL.org/news/final-livability-reports)Pat Steed, Executive Director, Central Florida Regional Planning Council – Heartland 2060: Building a Resilient Region (http://www NULL.heartland2060 NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Heartland_2060_Resiliency_Plan_3-7-14 NULL.pdf)
Moderator:
Brett Schwartz, Program Manager, National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation
While this webinar will focus on HUD SCI grantees from rural regions that have completed regional plans, anyone who is developing a regional, economic, or community plan will benefit from the lessons shared about creating an engaging and accessible document.
1.25 AICP CM credits are available.
This webinar is supported through a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Questions? E-mail Brett Schwartz at [email protected] (bschwartz null@null nado NULL.org).