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Looking for some new ideas and tools, a rich network of relationships, and lasting inspiration to help you create a stronger community? Have we got the conference for you...
Check out the exciting offerings we’re cooking up for CommunityMatters’10, taking place October 5 - 8, 2010 in Denver, Colorado!
Last year’s release of CommunityViz® Version 4.0 changed the face of community planning software. Now Version 4.1 makes CommunityViz faster and easier to use, with more multimedia options and upgraded interactive displays.
CommunityMatters®, in partnership with Ashoka’s Changemakers, today launched Strong Communities: Engaging Citizens, Strengthening Place, Inspiring Change, an innovative competition to find the best ways for citizens to connect and work to build vibrant, enduring places.
We’d like to welcome you to CommunityMatters, a new online commons for individuals and organizations working to engage citizens, steer change and build strong communities sustained by their unique character.
“What’s it to you?” That’s a question Envision Victor has been asking Victor, Idaho residents as part of a Heart & Soul Community Planning initiative supported by the Orton Family Foundation. Victor residents have identified five qualities that they value most in their community...
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.
The Orton Family Foundation continues to expand its capacity with a new full-time appointment to the Communications Department and a part-time event planning consultant. They will both help the Foundation advance its Heart & Soul Community Planning initiative, and enhance our capacity to work with communities in the Rocky Mountain West.
For the next step in this two-year Heart & Soul Community Planning initiative, the City has issued a Request for Proposals for a consultant team to draft a Downtown Master Plan that ensures Biddeford’s “heart and soul” is central to future planning and decision making.
“It takes a village,” the old adage goes. In Exeter, Rhode Island, it takes a village to plan a village. The Town recently issued a Request for Proposals for a feasibility study focused on channeling future growth into possible village sites.