The annual summit brings City officials, neighborhood leaders and volunteers together to discuss common issues and to hear from local professionals and experts about the resources and strategies that they can take back to their communities to promote change.
This year's program will focus heavily on implementation of the City's new comprehensive master plan, Plan Cincinnati. Other program elements include an intensive Community Academy track on operating effective community councils, the City's proposed form-based code and neighborhood development, and the encouragement of youth participation in the community building process.
The first morning session (9:15 A.M. to 10:15 A.M.) includes:
- Communication Basics*
- So I've Just Been Elected…*
- Why and How Are We Engaging Young People?
- New Tools for Great Neighborhoods
- Finding Resources for Development*
- Social Media Marketing: Are You Strategic?*
- Plan Cincinnati Implementation
- Why and How Are We Engaging Young People?
- New Models for Neighborhood Development
- Future of Civic Engagement
- Steps to Developing Collaborating Communities*
- Priority-Driven Budgeting: What Next?
- Let's Be Clean, Safe, and Strong!
- Effective Dialogue and Resolving Differences*
- Recruiting and Sustaining Members and Volunteers*
- Neighborhood Asset-Mapping Tool
- Grassroots Fund Raising and Grant Writing*
- Creating a Vacant/Abandoned Property Strategy*
- Using Community Learning Centers to Reach Youth
- Effective Dialogue and Resolving Differences*
- Recruiting and Sustaining Members and Volunteers*
- Neighborhood Asset-Mapping Tool
Attendance is free, but reservations are required.
Now in its eleventh year, the Neighborhood Summit is hosted by the City of Cincinnati, Invest In Neighborhoods, and Xavier University's Community Building Institute.
Youth engagement subject of kick-off dinner
On February 15 from 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M., a kick-off dinner will feature a discussion of youth engagement in community life with Denise Gonsalves, director of youth leadership development for Boston's Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative.
In that role, she helped form the GOTCHA Collaborative youth employment program and the Boston Connecting Cultures Mural Project. She also was appointed to three task forces in the Dudley community, working toward voting rights, school readiness, and the Strand Theater restoration.
Admission is $25 per person, and reservations are required.
* Community Academy track
Previous reading on BC:
'Cincinnati Spring' summit to bring City, neighborhoods together (5/16/12)
Registration for 2011 Neighborhood Summit now open (3/16/11)
$110K, new staffer needed to administer neighborhood support funds (3/4/09)
Neighborhood Summit to be held January 24 (12/16/08)
Neighborhood Summit this Saturday (2/13/08)
