Goals and agendas of different community actors often seem disconnected or in competition for resources, validity, and attention. Effective placemaking requires alignment among key community partners. How do we go about helping communities find common ground and build synergy? How can good alignment multiply support from public, private, and philanthropic sectors? Resources Bravo Greater Des…
Strong community engagement is integral to good placemaking. What happens when a community was not involved or organizational partners were not the right fit with each other or for community-based work? What can we learn from projects gone off track? When adjudicating grants, how can we tell whether applicants have done their homework? Resources…
Communities, like individuals, experience social, environmental, historic and other traumas that impact their needs and ability to function. How do funders recognize when community partners are seeing or not seeing trauma? What is trauma-informed grantmaking, and what insights can it offer for programs designed to support arts based community development? Resources Matlin’s Presentation Rangel’s…
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, is there a map to get us out of there? Achieving equity through placekeeping comes with ample detours and fragmented maps. If we’re lucky we can find a good compass. How can we help communities find and maintain equitable directions? What unintended consequences do we…
How do we know our grantees and communities have achieved real, positive progress in this complicated, long-term work that’s different in each place? Can one size fit all in assessing community change? How can communities go about devising meaningful metrics they can work with? Susannah’s Presentation
How deeply do we understand equity in the ways we do our work and how our organizations are structured? How are our institutional assumptions biased? Addressing equity is more than a change in the colors of faces. This workshop examines different ways that our systems can become more equitable. Randy’s Presentation