Getting Ready for Change

Preliminary Program - 9.7.11

2 DAY INTENSIVE Day 1 Program ▪ November 8, 2011 JW Marriott Hotel ▪ 5150 Westheimer Road ▪ Houston, Texas 77056▪ (713) 961-1500

G E T T I N G R E A D Y F O R C H A N G E

8:30 am Breakfast Buffet

9 am 1. Welcome & Introductions . Amanda Timm, Executive Director, Houston LISC . Joel Bookman, Deputy Managing Director, Institute for CCD

9:15 am 2. Getting Things Done: Houston’s Leadership Labs . Amanda Timm, Executive Director, Houston LISC . Jenifer Wagley, Program Manager, Avenue CDC . Odin Zackman, President, Dig In

10:30 am Break

10:45 am 3. Break out Groups

12:00 pm Lunch

1:15 pm 4. Bringing Partners to the Table . Case Study 1: City Vision Ministries and Kansas City, KS (Mayor Joe Reardon, Kansas City, KS INVITED; TO BE CONFIRMED). . Case Study 2: Nuestra Comunidad and the Boston Police Department (David Price, Executive Director, Nuestra CDC)

2:45 pm 5. Neutralizing Naysayers How do you get disparate forces to work together for the common good? How do you take on (or take out) opponents? . Case Study 1: San Diego (Vicky Rodriguez, San Diego LISC) . Case Study 2: Fulton Hill Legacy Committee (Veronica Jermott, Senior Program Officer, Virginia LISC) . Jim Capraro, moderator

1 3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm 6. Being a Good Partner . Group 1- Lead Agencies: Keeping Partners Accountable in Humboldt Park (Joy Aruguete / Christy Prahl, Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation) . Group 2 - LISC Staff (Joel Bookman, Director of Programs, LISC/Chicago and Managing Director, Institute)

5 pm 7. Adjournment (Reception follows immediately)

2 2 DAY INTENSIVE Day 2 Program ▪ November 9, 2011 JW Marriott Hotel ▪ 5150 Westheimer Road ▪ Houston, Texas 77056▪ (713) 961-1500

A D V A N C I N G T H E M O V E M E N T Location

8:30 am Breakfast Buffet

9:30 a.m. 8.Winning Support and Followers Large room with 5 large tables spread How do we prioritize place-based Compehensive Community apart for five Development? What makes this a movement that gains ground, individual working prestige, and support? groups; 12 chairs Participants will use open space meeting techniques to create and at each table; manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions. podium and microphone . Jim Capraro, Senior Fellow, Institute for CCD

11:30 a.m. Break

11:45 a.m. Lunch

12:45 p.m. 9.How do you create neighborhood change? 1 room; head table w/3 chairs and In early 2007, LISC researchers implemented an evaluation to assess microphones; the outcomes of the Building Sustainable Communities program to podium; projector; determine whether neighborhoods have indeed changed in relation to screen; 65 seats at what would otherwise be expected, and how those changes have been tables facing front. produced. This session will explore preliminary findings of the qualitative assessment regarding how change was produced in BSC target neighborhoods. . Sarah Rankin, Senior Research Associate, LISC

2 p.m. 10. Wrap up/Reflection Plenary Same as above. . What did you learn? . What does this mean for moving your work forward? . What does this mean for moving the field forward?

2:30 p.m. 11. Adjournment

NOTE: An optional neighborhood tour/workshop will be offered from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. 3 4