September Agenda
Civic Engagement Training Institute
September 22-24, 2009
In partnership with Family and Youth Counseling Agency, Lake Charles, LA
Purpose:
* To provide training and learning opportunities in civic engagement for nonprofit human service agency staff.
* To identify specific skills required to increase staff involvement and success in civic engagement activities, especially with populations that have less access to decision makers.
* To explore pathways to develop organizational capacity to carry out civic engagement activities within a human service setting.
Desired outcomes:
- Participants will understand why it is critically important to support and build the civic engagement of clients and constituents.
- Participants will be able to think about what role they or their organization might play to support and build civic engagement, and then make it happen.
- Participants will feel more comfortable and confident talking about civic engagement issues and opportunities with colleagues and external partners.
- Participants will be assisted to incorporate civic engagement practices and strategies in a fuller way to their daily work.
- Participants will make connections with one another, possibly creating a formalized cohort of “Civic Engagement Ambassadors” within the
- Participants will understand what organizational structures and feedback loops will need to be in place in order to promote civic engagement and manage the risks associated with it.
Agenda:
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Arrive L’auberge du lac Casino Resort, 777 Avenue L’auberge,
5:00 PM: A Taste of
5:30 PM: Welcome and Participant Introductions
-Peter Goldberg, President and Chief Executive Officer,
-Julio Galan, Executive Director, Family and Youth Counseling Agency
-Audrey Jordan, Annie E. Casey Foundation
6:30 PM: Dinner and Participant Discussions – Civic Engagement Hopes and Fears
-Linda Nguyen, Director, Civic Engagement,
8:30 PM: Close of Day 1
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
8:30 AM: Breakfast available in main meeting room at L’auberge du lac
8:45 AM: Shared Values, Different Approaches in Civic Engagement
-John Till, Vice President, Family and Community Programs, Family and Children’s Service
-Jeff Bauer, Director of Public Policy and Civic Engagement, Family and Children’s Service
10:00 AM: Short break
10:15 AM: The value of civic engagement, the various types of civic engagement, appropriate/feasible strategies for human service groups, agency assessment, and the connectivity between civic engagement and service provision
-Linda Nguyen
-Paula Purcell, Associate Director, Civic Engagement,
11:00 AM: Your Community and the 2010 Census
-George Pillsbury, Nonprofits Count, Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network
-Ashley Herad, State Policy Director,
12:15 PM: Lunch
1:15 PM: Building a Race and Class Analysis, with an emphasis on developing organizational awareness of power structures
-Jeff Bauer
2:45 PM: Short break
3:00 PM: The Nuts, Bolts, and Steps of Civic Engagement
-Jeff Bauer
-Byron Jackson, Civic Engagement Associate,
4:15 PM: Short break
4:30 PM: Establishment of the Children’s Trust Organization
-Panelists TBA
5:45 PM: Bites by the Pool. Dinner on your own.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
8:00 AM: Breakfast available in main meeting room at L’auberge du lac
8:15 AM: Debrief of Day 1 and 2. Cross-learning and Sharing of participants’ past/current/future efforts, Bringing the Work Home
-Linda Nguyen
-Paula Purcell
9:00 AM: Funding Civic Engagement – a Funders Panel
-Ashley Shelton, VP of the
-Julia Beatty, Program Officer of the 21st Century Foundation
-Samantha Bickham, Program Coordinator of the
-Cynthia Renfro, Program Officer of Marguerite Casey (invited)
-Gladys Washington, Program Officer of Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation (invited)
9:45 AM: Funding Civic Engagement – a Practitioner’s Perspective
-John Till
10:30 AM: Short break
10:45 AM: Innovative Civic Engagement Evaluation Techniques
-Nicole Robinson, Senior Project Specialist, Evaluation and Organizational Development, Mosaica
12:15 PM: Lunch, Institute evaluations, and Wrap Up
-Linda Nguyen
1:00 PM: Close of Institute. Optional tour of Family and Youth Counseling Agency.
1:15 PM – 3:30 PM: Optional one-on-one consultations with Alliance Civic Engagement staff. Please contact Paula Purcell at ppurcell@alliance1.org or 414-359-6581 to schedule an appointment.
