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AUGUST 2003
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| ALLIANCE ACTIVITIES |
Register Now for the November National Stewardship Forum
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Early Bird Registration Rates in Effect through October 15th
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 Large-scale collaboration is necessary when considering such issues as transportation, housing, and water. At this falls National Stewardship Forum, leaders from the business, government, education, and nonprofit/community-based sectors will gather in Boston, Massachusetts, November 6-7, to discuss these and other pressing regional issues. For more information, please contact Amy Carrier at , or call .
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Gardner Academy Update:
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Some Common Principles of Stewardship
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 The John W. Gardner Academy for Regional Stewardship provides a learning network that enables participating regional communities to activate an opportunistic and adaptable process of constructive change. In July we introduced the four communities currently participating in the Academy and described the values that underpin their efforts. This month we present a model of continuous learning and change involving (1) discovery of new ideas, allies and partners, (2) deciding on the focus, scope and priorities of community change, and (3) driving a realistic and adaptable process of experimentation.
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| NEWS YOU CAN USE |
The Region Speaks: A Fourteen-County Town Hall Meeting
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 On March 28, 2003, more than 175 people from 14 counties surrounding Charlotte, N.C. gathered to prioritize the regions most pressing challenges and ponder how they might best be addressed. The day-long civic forum was convened by the Lee Institute, whose mission is to build collaborative leadership capacity throughout the greater Charlotte region to solve various community issues. For more information, visit www.dukemansion.com/leeinstitute.
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| REGIONAL PROFILE |
Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University
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New Brunswick, New Jersey
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 In profile this month is the Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR) at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, which for three decades has served the nation with basic and applied research on a broad spectrum of public policy issues. CUPR, a component of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, is nationally and internationally recognized for its research on affordable housing, land use policy, arts and cultural policy, development-impact analysis, the costs of sprawl, transportation-information systems, environmental impacts, and community economic development. CUPR has developed a wide array of fiscal, environmental, transportation, and quality-of-life impact models that have been used in major public policy evaluations throughout the United States. For more information, please visit http://policy.rutgers.edu/cupr.
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| PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA |
How to Make Collaboration Work
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By David Straus, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2002, 250 pages, $14.95 (paper bound).
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 How to Make Collaboration Work spells out both the theory and practice of turning conflict into collective action. David Straus skillfully addresses the five principles of collaboration: Involve the Relevant Stakeholders, Build Consensus Phase by Phase, Design a Process Map, Designate a Process Facilitator, and Harness the Power of Group Memory. These core ideas can be used in small groups, organizations, communities and regions. In the Alliance for Regional Stewardships (ARS) monograph No. 5, The Practice of Stewardship: Developing Leadership for Regional Action, we described the actions that regions around the country have taken to deal effectively with challenges; How to Make Collaboration Work offers a valuable procedural complement. Copies are available for $14.95; to order, visit the Berrett-Koehler website at .
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Reinventing the Wheel: New Models for Southern Leadership
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By Jim Clinton, Carol Conway and Linda Hoke, Southern Growth Policies Board, 2003, 70 pages (approx.), $10.
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 The Southern Growth Policies Board was founded more than three decades ago to help guide the transition from the Old South to the New South, with the objective of making the 13-state region the best place in the nation to live, work and conduct business. Each year the organization issues a Report on the Future of the South. This years edition, Reinventing the Wheel, presents a new model of leadership to strengthen the Souths capacity to respond to emerging challenges and opportunitiesfrom globalization and new economic forces to large-scale demographic changes. Copies of Reinventing the Wheel are available for $10. To order, visit www.southern.org and click th e publications button on the left-hand side of your screen.
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| OPINION |
Public Subsidies: Going, Going, Boeing?
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By Neal R. Peirce
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 Notwithstanding crippling budget crises, 19 states have responded to the bait set out by the Boeing Co. and proffered bids some breathtakingly large to land the assembly plant for Boeings proposed new, fuel-conserving 7E7 jetliner. Appropriately, the new aircraft is dubbed the Dreamliner. Yet the jobs will average just $65,000 a year in pay. Given the willingness of our regional competitors abroad to offer increasingly lavish incentive packages to firms, one has to wonder all the more about American states cutting back on transportation, schools and human serviceseven while they fall over each other to lure sexy new plants with money they dont have.
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