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August 2004 |
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Join Us in Salt Lake City, November 10-12, 2004
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 The next National Forum on Regional Stewardship will be held November 10-12, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Salt Lake City Forum, to be presented in cooperation with the Coalition for Utah's Future, sponsor of Envision Utah, will highlight participatory planning for smart growth and the importance of engaging the media in outreach to the public on regional initiatives, among other topics. The Salt Lake City Forum will feature an expanded Wednesday program, consisting of a tour of the region's Gateway project, which demonstrates mixed-use, transit-oriented brownfield redevelopment, and an optional dinner excursion to Park City with structured, en route presentations on Utah history, regional high-tech industrial clusters, state political trends, and more. Registration is $150 for Individual Stewards (free for eligible Organizational Stewards) and $200 for non-members prior to October 18, 2004 (the fee increases by $50 thereafter). For more information, contact Amy Carrier, Alliance Manager, at or via e-mail at .[FULL ARTICLE] [REGISTER FOR THE FORUM] |
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Gardner Academy in Action: Current and Prospective Projects
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Long Island, Oklahoma City and New Orleans Moving Forward
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 The John W. Gardner Academy for Regional Stewardship provides technical assistance to regions that want to connect regional leaders to national best practices. While Academies are designed to address specific regional issues, they follow a process focused on diagnosing challenges and opportunities, identifying appropriate best practices, and developing a collaborative regional strategy by working with a regional stewardship team. ARS currently is involved in supporting three Academies: Long Island, Oklahoma City and New Orleans. Additionally, discussions are underway to initiate Academies in Pittsburgh, Northeast Ohio, Florida (statewide, multi-region), and Hartford. For more information on the Gardner Academy for Regional Stewardship, or if you are interested in initiating a project, contact either Doug Henton, Academy Coordinator, at or John Parr, President and CEO of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, at (please include a reference to the Gardner Academy for Regional Stewardship in the subject line).[FULL ARTICLE] |
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Sixty-Four New Homes Occupied; Project Receives Fannie Mae Maxwell Award
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 Earlier this month, a ceremony was held in Birmingham, Alabama to recognize a new, 64-unit affordable housing development recently opened in the city's Avondale neighborhood. The $5.5 million Avondale Gardens development, which became fully occupied in March 2004, was one of six national winners of the Fannie Mae Foundation Maxwell Awards of Excellence. Housing Enterprise of Central Alabama (HECA), a participant in Greater Birmingham's successful 2004 Regional Stewardship Award effort for which it won the Silver ($15,000) prize, provided capital and technical assistance to the project, which was spearheaded by Aletheia House, a substance-abuse treatment provider that previously had offered only transitional housing for its clients. Avondale Gardens, by contrast, is a rental development open to the community at large.[FULL ARTICLE] |
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Washington, D.C.
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 Each month we profile a national organization with which ARS has partnered to reach a broader audience capable of initiating action across sectors and jurisdictions. The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, non-partisan organization chartered by Congress to assist federal, state and local governments in improving their effectiveness, efficiency and accountability. For more than 35 years, the Academy has met the challenge of cultivating excellence in the management and administration of government agencies. Its expertise is sought out by governments at all levels and organizations from every sector on such issues as budgeting and finance, energy policy, performance measurement, personnel management, and information technology, among others. Morgan C. Kinghorn is President of the National Academy of Public Administration. For more information, visit the website www.napawash.org.[FULL ARTICLE] |
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National League of Cities Launches National Campaign for Social Equity
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Leaders Urged to Hold Town Meetings on September 28, 2004
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 It is time for the leaders of America's cities and towns to stand up and be counted as champions of hope, opportunity and fairness for all their residents - champions of the American Dream - according to National League of Cities President Charles Lyons, a Selectman from the City of Arlington, Massachusetts. Founded in 1924, the National League of Cities (NLC) is the oldest and largest national organization representing municipal governments in the United States. Its mission is to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance. The national campaign, dubbed Resurrecting the American Dream, charges local leaders nationwide to convene town hall meetings and other gatherings of elected officials and citizens on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 for a national day of deliberation and commitment to strategies for reversing the inequalities and disparities that leave many people behind economically and socially in contemporary America. For more information on NLC's Resurrecting the American Dream campaign, read the sidebar story by clicking below, or visit the website www.nlc.org.[SIDE BAR] |
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Harwood Institute Launches Public Leadership School
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Imagine and Act for the Public Good
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 The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to invigorating people, organizations and communities to improve public life and politics, has established the Harwood Public Leadership School, which will offer its first program on September 26-29, 2004 at the Airlie Conference Center in Warrenton, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The training is designed for civic leaders, foundation officers, public officials, journalists, school leaders, and others who choose an alternative path to effectiveness in their work. The curriculum helps participants identify and understand their personal aspirations in public life, discover and capitalize on key skills and strengths, and mobilize other people. The cost of the program is $2,195 and registration closes September 10, 2004. For more information, direct your browser to www.theharwoodinstitute.org/initiatives/leadership.shtml or contact Cindy Page at . To view an Acrobat-compatible brochure on the Harwood Public Leadership School, click on the button below.[DOWNLOAD BROCHURE] |
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Denver, Colorado |
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Reviewed by David Lampe
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 Reinventing Government co-author David Osborne has teamed up with Peter Hutchinson to produce an instructive volume on the cost of delivering public services, the practices that result in government waste and the policies that most inflame citizens when they interact with government. Like Reinventing Government, this new book, The Price of Government, doesn't stop at the bad news, offering many hopeful examples of innovative reforms designed both to save money and enhance public satisfaction with government. Part of the answer, of course, lies in sound management, but the greater challenge, as the authors amply demonstrate, requires the creation of a constituency for real change.[FULL ARTICLE] |
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Metropolitan Governance without Metropolitan Government, edited by Don Phares, Ashgate Publishing, 2004, 236 pages, $89.95 (hardbound).
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 Ashgate Publishing has just released Metropolitan Governance without Metropolitan Government, which examines in detail the governance of metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada and Mexico and provides an overview of the regional governance experience in several European cities. Edited by Don Phares of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the volume considers specific cities in the U.S. and Canada and examines how they have dealt with the issues of providing services in a metropolitan context, either through formal government structure or informal governance arrangements. Uniquely, the book considers the topic of metropolitan governance in a comparative urban context as well as an international context. Specific North American regions addressed in Metropolitan Governance without Metropolitan Government include Mexico City, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Vancouver (B.C.), Pittsburgh, and New Orleans. To order, visit the website www.ashgate.com or call toll-free .
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Airfield to Playfield/Neighborhood: Denver's Daring Changeover |
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 DENVER-Can a single real estate development show Americans how to shed pounds, live healthy, generate community, create a sustainable environment, house millionaires and working class families in a single block, open urban schools that the middle class likes, sprout big box retail stores and small neighborhood centers-and make money? Maybe not. But Forest City Enterprises, a publicly traded, family-run Cleveland-based firm that focuses on urban projects nationwide, is making a big play to pull off what would seem the near impossible on the site of Denver's Stapleton Airport, which was decommissioned in 1995 with the opening Denver International Airport, 20 miles to the east.[FULL ARTICLE] |
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Alliance for Regional Stewardship , Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: /Fax: Email: Web: https://regionalstewardship.org |
In Profile this month are the Center for the Improvement of Public Management and the Center for Public-Private Sector Cooperation, operating units of the Graduate School of Public Affairs (GSPA), University of Colorado at Denver. The mission of the Centers is to enhance the capacity of diverse communities and public and nonprofit organizations to solve problems and meet the challenges of relentless social change through (1) planning and problem-solving assistance, (2) leadership-development training; (3) technical assistance; and (4) applied research and program evaluation. Other projects include the annual Mind of Colorado public opinion research project, designed to track statewide issues and inform policymakers on emerging trends. Lisa Carlson is Director of The Centers at GSPA. For more information, visit the website 
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