CAPACITY BUILDING
- Kim Anderson and Louise Hill facilitated a two-day training for the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice, Florida. Included in the training were basic facilitation skills and an overview of leading community dialogues.
- Langford D. Holbrook designed and delivered a training session at the DCA Community Development Block Grant Applicants workshop in Augusta, focusing on the importance of quality planning and how including community development block grant projects in those plans can make grant applications more competitive.
- Brenda Hayes and Langford D. Holbrook conducted a series of four planning sessions for the Georgia Trust in Atlanta. The sessions were designed to solicit input primarily on how the Trust can be sustainable in the future and what characteristics are needed in the new President/CEO.
EXPLORATION
- Leigh Askew, Danny Bivins, Langford D. Holbrook, and Courtney Tobin facilitated Georgia Water Council public meetings in Augusta, Canton, Columbus, Macon, Midway, and Valdosta. More than 200 people attended the meetings to provide comments on the statewide water management plan.
- Matt Bishop continued the second round of community leader meetings for Communities of Opportunity, facilitating four meetings with 100 participants in Burke, Elbert, Glascock, and Jefferson counties. Jan Coyne, Louise Hill, Karen Holt, Raye Rawls, Skip Teaster and Courtney Tobin assisted in the meetings.
- Delene Porter presented a PPA/OneAthens work session for 25 participants at the 2007 Department of Labor Workforce Conference in Savannah.
ENGAGING COMMUNITIES
- Danny Bivins served as a team leader for the “Your Town: A Design Workshop.” The Your Town program is a rural design leadership workshop developed and sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA). The workshop in Plains targeted 32 Latino leaders from across Georgia. Deborah Gonzalez also participated.
- Jim Geiser, Delene Porter, and Joe Whorton facilitated eight PPA/OneAthens meetings with almost 200 participants, including one for Young Partners for A Prosperous Athens (YPPA), an anti-poverty summit for 100 Athens high school students. Matt Bishop, Danny Brewington, Langford D. Holbrook, and Courtney Tobin assisted.
- The State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) is complete, signed by the Governor, and approved by the National Park Service. Langford D. Holbrook served as project manager for this 18-month project, working with Leigh Askew, Danny Bivins, and Jan Coyne to design, implement and analyze the public input process for the plan. Fanning collaborated with the Parks, Recreation & Historic Sites Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as well as the following UGA partners: the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, the Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology, the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, and the Center for Community Design and Preservation.
