Web Workshops: Community Engagement Strategies for Sustainability

Everyone Remain Calm: Effective Strategies for Engaging Your Community on Sustainability
June 12, 2012

Are you trying to build broad community engagement in building vibrant, high quality and economically sustainable places? Are you looking for ways to be proactive in your media outreach?

During this online session, participants will learn techniques to develop effective messaging for livability and sustainable development projects. Presenters will share do’s and don’ts related to getting the message out via traditional and social media and strategies for communicating your message to the general public. Participants will engage in interactive role-play exercises to test these new skills.

Related Materials:

Basic Facilitation Skills & Tools
Bringing Groups Together
Conflict Management
Planning in America--APA Poll Release

Power of People: Engaging Stakeholders in Your Community's Projects

November 13, 2012

Many planning projects, especially economic development initiatives that impact neighborhoods and downtowns, can be emotional-charged and potentially controversial. Therefore, the projects that engage as many residents and stakeholder groups as possible throughout the planning process have a better chance of incurring support of the larger community.

Join NACo to learn strategies for county staff to engage elected officials and other community leaders in community planning projects. Webinar will feature innovative strategies from regional planning projects and a “clinic” to critique outreach materials submitted by a select number of HUD 2010/2011 sustainability grants recipients.

Related Materials:

Identifying and Engaging Stakeholders--Envision Utah

Action Plan--Recruit Stakeholders & Champions
Stakeholder & Champion Engagement Worksheet

Partners

National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Also of Interest

Media Tools for County Officials
Green Government Initiative