Mark Your Calendars: CommunityMatters'10
October 5 - 8, 2010 in Denver, Colorado
For Immediate Release
It’s 2010. Your community has never faced more pressing issues, and it has never had a better opportunity to solve them. Start here: CommunityMatters’10® October 5 - 8, Denver.
CommunityMatters ’10 is a unique innovation-action experience—a coalition of leaders, thinkers and doers committed to building strong, vibrant communities from the ground up.
You’ll experience:
- Panel sessions on community tools, issues and solutions
- Experiential workshops and trainings
- Tours of innovative Denver-area projects and communities
- Community Sandbox with hands-on tools demos
- Keynote and plenary sessions offering fresh perspectives
- Community arts experience with Sojourn Theatre
- Live voting in Ashoka’s Changemakers competition
- Networking events and receptions Registration begins in June.
In the meantime, we’d appreciate your input on which offerings would be most useful to you. Please take two minutes to fill out the CommunityMatters ’10 Workshop Survey. This is your conference; help us make it matter to you. Then we’ll see you in Denver, Colorado, October 5 - 8, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt, surrounded by breathtaking views of Denver and the Rockies!
TAKE OUR WORKSHOP SURVEY
VISIT COMMUNITYMATTERS ONLINE
The Orton Family Foundation, based in Middlebury, Vermont, and Denver, Colorado, seeks to help small cities and towns discover and describe their heart and soul—the collective attributes that make communities unique—and build on those attributes in planning toward a vibrant, enduring future.
CommunityMatters is an interactive exchange for individuals and organizations working to engage citizens and build strong, vibrant communities from the ground up. The CommunityMatters website and conference fuel a growing network of leaders, thinkers and doers in a variety of disciplines: sustainability, planning, health, justice, education, poverty, economic development, arts and more. CommunityMatters is a project of the Orton Family Foundation, in collaboration with other partners.