7 Agendas for a Community-Based Session
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
7 Agendas for a Community-based Session
Overview
This section contains a Citizen Leaders Project Calendar, with Agendas and accompanying Teaching Agenda that was used for the pilot community-based Citizen Leaders session. Minutes for some meetings are included. The session was co-facilitated by local community-based organizations and it included a more structured involvement by local organizations than the earlier citywide classes. Citizen Leaders Project Calendar (5/98 )
INTER- PLACE FOCUS LEARNING OPPORTUNITY COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECT APPLICATION MEETING DATES
June 16, 1998 Legler Library Informational Session 5 – 6:30PM Auditorium 115 S. Pulaski Chicago, IL 60624
June 30, 1998 Legler Library Clarify Citizen Leaders How to organize community innovation. Begin recruitment of partners for your 5 –7 PM project goals and How the questions you ask determine project team. activities. Introduce what you find Community Innovation Guide
July 14, 1998 Legler Library Step I: Organize a Understanding the best of what is. Asset inventory of local community and 5 –7 PM Community Meeting. Appreciative Inquiry process; how to team members – orientation to identify and build upon what matters to development opportunity. people most; how to get others involved Complete pages 3-4 in CIG by next meeting.
July 28, 1998 Legler Library Step II: Imagining “what How to get others involved in sharing Determining a project focus with your 5 –7 PM might be.” Criteria for innovative ideas. Designing for the long- team. sustainable community term. Sustainability and success development indicators Complete pages 5-6 in CIG by next meeting.
August 11, 1998 Legler Library Step III: Creating what Creating a structure to organize planning Developing project plan and budget. 5 –7 PM will be. Organizing for process and set deadlines for Identify community resource connection. action. Budgeting implementation. Establishing a workplan. Complete weekly workplan by next necessary resources. Budget preparation. meeting. INTER- PLACE FOCUS LEARNING OPPORTUNITY COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECT APPLICATION MEETING DATES
August 11 – Individual proposal Proposal writing August 25 assistance
Proposals successfully completed will August 25, 1998 receive $500 check at Sept 1 meeting PROPOSALS DUE
Sept 1, 1998 Legler Library Step III: Peer proposal Clarifying project implementation. Begin Project implementation. 5 –7 PM feedback. Grant distribution.
Implementation check-in. Maintaining Sept 15, 1998 Legler Library Step IV: Creating momentum. Recognizing and Project implementation II: Gathering and 5 –7 PM community learning documenting progress. recording learning. Revising plans based exchanges. on new understandings.
Complete monthly progress report by next meeting
Sept 29, 1998 Legler Library Communicating progress How to get projects recognized so others Project Implementation III: Clarifying 5 –7 PM can learn from your example. Media vision of progress. Sharing project with tips. Getting the story told "outside party." Sharing monthly progress report
October 13, 1998 Legler Library Step V: Building and Next generation project development. 5 –7 PM maintaining your Review of structures which will sustain Next stage planning for project and progress community development. How to build program continuation. on Citizen Leaders on the West side.
Assessing and Evaluation measures. INTER- PLACE FOCUS LEARNING OPPORTUNITY COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECT APPLICATION MEETING DATES disseminating results. Building investor’s confidence. October 27, 1998 Legler Library Learning to become community Learning from experience. 5 –7 PM Exploring the value of mentors/teachers of your community the Innovations as innovation. models. November 13, FINAL PROJECT 1998 AND FINANCIAL REPORTS DUE.
TBA Graduation and How to celebrate successes! Celebration Party
Weekly local project team meetings will be scheduled by each Citizen Leader Group separately. Progress from these local sessions will be shared at the Inter- Project Meetings listed above.
Any questions? Telephone: Eugene Grady or Mildred Wylie Citizen Leaders Workshop #1 Informational Session June 16, 1998
AGENDA 5:00 PM Registration and Refreshments
5:05 PM Welcome Pair interviews (10 minutes): In pairs, please discuss the following questions: . What made you go the extra mile to come to this meeting tonight? . What do you value most about your neighborhood? . How do you invest time and energy to make this community a better place?
5:20 PM Introductions Stacy Payton, Bethel New Life Tio Hardiman, Bethel New Life Eugene Grady, Bethel New Life Mildred Wylie, Bethel New Life Anita Jayaraj, ACT coalition Bliss Browne, Imagine Chicago
5:30 PM Interview debriefing . What are some of the common themes in our responses?
5:40 PM Citizen Leaders introduction Peter Chien, Imagine Chicago
5:45 PM Citizen Leaders Project Profile and Project Calendar . Questions?
6:15 PM Sign-up forms
6:25 PM Get into groups by neighborhoods. This will be a chance to talk exchange phone numbers and addresses with people who live near you. Some of these people may work on the same team as you.
Next meeting: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 Legler Library, 5 – 7 PM For the next meeting, talk with your friends and neighbors. Ask them what they value most about the neighborhood and what they would want to work on changing. Citizen Leaders Workshop #1 Informational Session June 16, 1998
Materials needed: COR office will bring refreshments, nametags, decide geographic areas that residents will break into IMAGINE CHICAGO will bring the sign-in sheets, Post-It poster boards, markers, project profiles, calendars, evaluations, commitment forms, nomination forms, already-made-put poster sheets of 3 questions…Citizen Leaders process. These forms will also be brought on disk to the COR office.
TEACHING AGENDA 4:30 PM have room set-up arranged COR have refreshments ready put materials out put posters on wall (questions and Citizen Leader process)
5:00 PM Registration and Refreshments COR . have residents sign-in as they enter . hand out project profiles . tell people to introduce themselves to each other and discuss the three questions on the wall.
5:05 Welcome: Peter Pair Interviews: Hello. It’s good to see all of you here. We are going to spend some time today talking about a process which helps you organize your own community project, called Citizen Leaders. We are going to discuss the program, go over the calendar, introduce many of the people involved and go over questions. The heart of the Citizen Leaders program is about creating a way for you to work with others to make a difference. Everyone here is already a Citizen Leader in some way. So we’d like to begin by giving you a chance to get to know each other and to hear some of the many ways people here are already making a difference. There are three questions that we are going to use to introduce ourselves:
What made you go the extra mile to come to this meeting tonight? What do you value most about your neighborhood? How do you invest time and energy to make this community a better place?
So please find somebody around you, pair up, and talk about these questions. You will have 10 minutes.
5:20 Introductions Stacy Payton, Bethel New Life Tio Hardiman, Bethel New Life Eugene Grady, Bethel New Life Mildred Wylie, Bethel New Life Anita Jayaraj, ACT coalition Bliss Browne, Imagine Chicago
5:30 Pair Interview debriefing ______Now that you know a little bit about who we are, we would like to know a little about you. Specifically, we would like to know some of the ways that you answered the three introductory questions. Who would like to share your answer to the questions?
Peter, Team members will write down the answers to these questions on the paper around the COR room.
______Facilitator comments on themes from the responses.
5:40 Citizen Leader Project Profile and Calendar Peter Introduction: This program is for those who want to put time and energy into making West Garfield Park a better place, who want to make a difference. While the problems may sometimes seem overwhelming, you can do something, you can create a positive project, especially working with a team of other people. You know your neighborhood better and what’s needs most. So it makes most sense for you to be in charge of designing and implementing a positive project. This program is an opportunity to take your ideas and work with them to develop a positive project working with your neighbors based on what needs to be done. We’ll help you with the organizing and budgeting. And we’re going to try and connect you with many of the resources here in the community, the ACT coalition, Bethel New Life, community organizations, churches, schools, hospitals to get that done. Eugene Project Profile: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN We are going to meet every other Tuesday. You are going to working outside of the workshops to organize your own project. Peter Project Profile – HOW section Hand out Project Calendars. there will be nine more workshops outlining a process to organize a community project. The process goes: Process: Recruit a Team (you will need at least six people on your project team) > Explore Community Assets> Determine a Project Focus > Develop a Plan/Budget > Implement Project > Document It > Communicate Project > Sustain Project > Evaluate It> Mentor/Teach the poster of these steps should already be hanging on the walls. Some examples of projects have been: intergenerational softball league, open-mike coffeehouse for teens, adopt-a-grandparent programs… This process is both for people who may have some organizing experience and for beginners. The most important part is that you make the commitment of both time and energy to make this process work and to develop a project in your neighborhoods. This is a substantial commitment 10 workshops which span over four months, plus organizing and sustaining whatever your idea is. It’s is a process with rewards—where you will learn a lot, and have a chance to make a difference. If you’re not sure you can make that commitment, you may want to just be a team member on someone else’s project team. Questions?
6:15 Sign-up forms. ______What commitment are you willing to make to make a difference? Citizen Leaders – organize and lead a project team in designing a creative project. . attend all workshops. Team members – are a part of project teams. . may attend workshops Teaching others—gives you a chance to share some of your experience with the group. We will help you prepare your talk.
6:25 Group people by geographic area COR Have Poster that tells people where to go. Residents introduce each other. Tell about their interests. Exchange phone numbers if they might want to work together. Citizen Leaders Getting Others Involved June 30, 1998
Outcomes: . to clarify Citizen Leaders program and resource materials . to identify individual leadership strengths and how to apply them . to learn effective strategies for recruiting project team members . to assess current skills and community involvement of participants
AGENDA 5:30 PM Registration and Refreshments
5:35 PM Overview of agenda
5:40 PM Citizen Leadership as a way of life In pairs, please discuss: . What is something that you do right now that makes a difference? . What is something that you’ve done that you are proud of?
6:00 PM Overview of the Project Profile and Citizen Leaders process. . Describe the Citizen Leaders opportunity to each other in pairs. . Citizen Leaders skills development assessment
6:30 PM Involving Others Full group discussion of recruiting “best practices.”
7:00 PM Organizing a Project Team . What might be the advantage to getting potential team members together? For reference, see Community Innovation Guide, pg.3
By the next meeting on July 14th: . Identify and speak with at least 10 people who might be interested in working on your Citizen Leaders team.. Set a meeting place and time for interested people. Next meeting: Tuesday, July 14th,, 5:30 – 7:30PM Bethel New Life office, 367 N. Karlov Topic: Leading a team meeting Building on people’s strengths Citizen Leaders Getting Others Involved June 30, 1998
Outcomes: . to clarify Citizen Leaders program and resource materials . to identify individual leadership strengths and how to apply them . to learn effective strategies for recruiting project team members . To assess current skills and community involvement of participants
Materials needed: Citizen Leaders binders (Community Innovation Guides, project profiles, project calendars), refreshments, sign-in sheets, nametags, flip charts & easels, commitment forms, Citizen Leaders process forms, skills assessments, evaluation forms. Bring sample flyers from past Citizen Leaders?
TEACHING AGENDA 5:00 PM have room set-up arranged have refreshments ready put materials out assign someone to keep meeting minutes
5:30 PM Registration and Refreshments . have residents sign-in as they enter . hand out Citizen Leaders binders to project team leaders (one binder per team) . encourage people to introduce themselves to each other.
5:35 PM Brief review of agenda, outcomes and timing.
5:40 PM Citizen Leadership as a way of life Bliss Ask participants to share in pairs: . What is something that you do right now that makes a difference? . What is something that you’ve do that you are proud of? Debrief: A leader is someone who does things that make a difference. We all express leadership in different ways. What values and skills do you bring to Citizen Leaders? (How do you know you are a Citizen Leader?) You have all come here tonight. You have been recommended to participate in this program. You have demonstrated leadership.
6:00 PM Clarifying Citizen Leaders program: Hand out process sheets Brief overview of the Project Profile and Process. Call attention to the calendar and binder as a resource for dates and topics. Talk some about what is in the binder.
Skills Assessments: One thing that Citizen Leaders does is give people a chance to improve their own individual and community skill-building. Our commitment is to help you develop your skills while you provide leadership to a project team. We’d like to know at the outset what areas you would like to target for your own development. Pass out skills assessments for people to fill out
Your Turn: Summarize Citizen Leaders to each other in pairs. If you had to describe the opportunity to someone you wanted to join your team, Citizen Leaders is _____. Pair up and finish the description.
6:30 PM Involving Others In Citizen Leaders, you are asked to involve at least 6 other volunteers to help with your project…strangers or friends.
Full group discussion of recruiting “best practices.” Let’s think about how to get others involved by reflecting on the best ways you and others have used to get people involved. . Think of a time when someone else got you involved: . What did they do that made you feel you mattered to the project? Summarize “Best Practices.” Keep a list of the responses on a flipchart to keep in mind.
Role Play: If time permits, ask for a volunteer to role play a conversation to get someone else involved? Comments.
7:00 PM Organizing a Project Team So far, we’ve been concentrating on one-on-one recruiting. What might be the advantage to getting potential team members together? What outcomes might you accomplish in a meeting of interested team members that you couldn’t accomplish one-on-one?
In the Community Innovation Guide on pg.3, is an organizer to help you plan such a meeting. . Who could you invite? . Who else might you want to invite? How would you speak to them? . What will you say? . Where, when will the meeting take place? . What materials will you have available? (Role Play in pairs? Depending on whether people want to, the mood of the room)
By the next meeting on July 14th, hold conversations with friends, neighbors, people at the grocery store, people at church, or family members. The holiday weekend is a good chance to do this. See who is interested in working on a Citizen Leaders team to improve the community. Get their name, phone number, and addresses. The holiday weekend is a good chance to do this.
Set a meeting place and time for interested people. Since you’ll need to have at least 6 people on your team, you’ll probably have to talk to at least 20. Let people know once you have set the time and place.
At our Next meeting: Tuesday, July 14th,, 5:30 – 7:30PM Bethel New Life office, 367 N. Karlov We will focus on resources for running your team meeting in a way that encourages people to get involved and showcases their strengths. Citizen Leaders “Getting Others Involved” Minutes for June 30, 1998
Attendance: Rev. Coleman Body Minnie Smith Bliss Browne Willie G. Brooks Yolonda Sumrell Peter Chien Evelyn Cherry Betty Swan Eugene Grady Joan Elam Mary Thornton Tio Hardiman Christine Fair Etta Turner Mary Nelson Betty Griffin Krishna Turner Mildred Wiley Bobby Jackson Linda Ward H. King J. Willis Lon Porter
What do you do well and what gifts do you have? We shared some of our talents as a group and ways we were making a difference. These included: . being interested in the community . being involved . initiating, motivating others . having lots of energy . having patience . not asking more than you would do yourself . having the skills to deal with challenges . mobilizing resources . educating others about services . asking others to work with me . tending a flower garden . giving of your service . raising funds . making others feel a part of what’s happening . keeping a penny collection . being a member of block club . being a good parent . caring about children . coming to this meeting tonight . having breakfast with Jesus.
What is the Citizen Leader program? Citizen Leaders is a program for people who want to make a difference in their neighborhoods. Every Citizen Leader organizes a project team to run a community project in the neighborhood. Workshops are held twice a month to help leaders learn the skills, get questions answered, and share ideas about how to move forward. Blue binders were passed out as resources for everyone to use. How do I get others involved? Mildred Wiley lead role plays and discussions, and Rev. Coleman Body lead a section on positive community declaration. A group prayer was said. We shared with each other some tips on how to get other people involved on our teams. The tips included: . being motivated . not taking no for an answer . meeting people door-to-door . giving exact details on when meetings are happening and what people can do . spreading a sense of camaraderie . letting people know that you will stick by them . raising awareness of issues . speaking softly . being responsive . not attacking other people or their actions, . being brave . inviting people to parties and social events . having patience.
How do I organizing a project team? After we talk to people one-on-one, we want our teams to get together for a group meeting. Getting people together as a project team will help develop a combined interest in the project and give people a chance to know each other. The Community Innovation Guide pg. 3 is a good reference for planning and holding this meeting. Citizen Leaders Community Organizing: Building on Strengths July 14, 1998
Outcomes: . to build on recruiting progress . to design and use positive questions to mobilize people’s ideas and strengths . to acquire skills to lead a focused community meeting for your project team
AGENDA 5:30 PM Welcome Opening Prayer
5:35 PM Building on Recruiting Progress Sharing stories of our conversations with others.
5:50 PM Appreciative Inquiry Introduction Tell of an experience in a community project that was a personal highpoint—an experience where you said to yourself, “People really can make a difference. I’m glad I got involved.”
What positive questions can you ask to mobilize your team members?
6:55 PM Leading a Community Meeting Reference - Community Innovation Guide, page 3.
7:20 PM Questions
7:25 PM Evaluations
Next For the next workshop, please hold a community meeting with your team members. steps: Discuss your individual talents and interests. Also talk about possible project ideas. Try to narrow your possibilities down to a couple projects that have the most interest behind them by the end of the meeting.
Next Tuesday, July 28th, 5:30PM – 7:30PM Bethel New Life meeting: Topic: Determining a project focus and plan. How to move from an idea to a structured plan. Citizen Leaders Community Organizing: Building on Strengths July 14, 1998
Outcomes: . to build on recruiting progress . to design and use positive questions to mobilize people’s ideas and strengths . to acquire skills to lead a focused community meeting for your project team
Materials: refreshments, nametags, markers, easels, sign-in sheet, agendas, teaching agendas, evaluation forms, AI summary sheet, AI Worksheet (high point moment), AI Question Design sheet, tape recorder and cassette.
TEACHING AGENDA
5:30 PM Welcome Opening prayer
5:35 PM Building on recruiting progress We discovered last time that people have many talents in this group at getting other people engaged. Review some of the techniques that we talked about. Now that you have had a chance to work at it over the last couple weeks, I thought we ought to begin by sharing in small groups of 2-3 the stories of who you have been able to find to work with. Tell how you got them interested, some of the struggles.
5:40 PM As a larger group now, who would like to share especially noteworthy stories of your conversations with others. Who would like to share some of the struggles that you face in moving forward?
Show of hands check-in: Who does not have anybody to work with yet? Who has 1-2 other people to work with? Who has more than two people to work with? Who already has a core team of people in place to work with?
You have a couple more weeks to form a core project team. So if you are struggling to find partners, don’t panic. You do want some people up front to work with. As you get going and people see what you are doing, others will join along the way. 5:45 COR Community organizing is the specialty of the COR office. Some of the COR office staff shares how to mobilize passions/assets in getting people actively engaged.
5:50 PM Appreciative Inquiry (AI) introduction Bliss Alternative ways of organizing: People organize/mobilize around things that evoke powerful feelings. Some people organize around frustrations and enemies. There are other energies that people organize as well. We had someone share with us last time that she wakes up and has breakfast with Jesus every morning. We can try to organize around and harness spiritual energies, hope, and love. Organizing around positive energies is less common’ you don’t hear people talking about it as much. Yet, if you can find out what matters to people, what’s working in the community and harness this positive energy, you can organize around that.
AI summary sheet of difference between AI and problem-solving Asking questions=setting agenda (AI summary sheet) One of the basic principles of AI is that whoever asks the question helps set the agenda. If you focus people’s minds on opportunities for youth, what the talent in the area is, then people think and work around that.
6:05 PM Experience of AI: Tell of your experience in a community project that was a personal highpoint, where you said to yourself people can make a difference, people can work together, this was fulfilling, it was a good use of time, I’m glad I got involved. Hand out worksheet. Spend 15 minutes describing this to your partner
6:30 PM Debrief: What happened when you asked yourself about each other’s positive experiences?
6:45 PM Design an AI question: Power of positive questions. Designing an effective positive question. Design an AI question that would help tap into someone’s interest in the community.
6:55 PM Leading a community meeting COR Break up into 4 small groups, each lead by a member of the COR office staff. Talk about holding a project team meeting.
Your goal over the next two weeks is to hold a meeting that will get your project team together, get at the interests and talents of the team, and allow you to discuss some initial project ideas. Use the ideas from our Citizen Leaders meetings. Refer back to the agenda as a source of ideas if those questions are helpful. And use the organizer in the Community Innovation Guide to your advantage.
7:00 PM Turn to the Community Innovation Guide (CIG), page 3. Give overview of the questions there. Make sure people are familiar with the community Innovation Guide as a resource. Zero in on a few of the more important questions to discuss as a group. . What will I say to them is the purpose of the meeting? . What materials will I have available? . What questions will I ask to discover the interests and talents of fellow team members? to make them welcome? Reference CIG, page 4 and earlier designed questions. Has anybody use the CIG? . How can I ask my team for possible project ideas? . Hold mock community meetings. Ask for volunteers to go in front of the group and practice their presentation, ask questions of the group.
7:20 PM Questions? – Come back together as a whole group
Next steps: for the next workshop, please hold a community meeting with your team members. Discuss your individual talents and interests. Also talk about possible project ideas. Try to narrow your possibilities down to a couple of projects that have the most interest behind them by the end of the meeting.
Next meeting: Tuesday, July 28th, 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Bethel New Life Topic: Determining a project focus and plan. How to move from an idea to a structured plan.
7:25 PM Evaluations Citizen Leaders “Building on Strengths” Minutes for 7/14/98
What have been some of your successes and struggles in getting others to join your project team? Some of us reported successful conversations of people who wanted to get involved and who saw joining a project team as that opportunity. Helpful approaches in these conversations included: . enthusiasm . cheerful energy . talking about kids . property values . “How can you not get involved in our children’s future.”
Some of the struggles included: . talking to senior citizens who are in a habit of not being involved . many feel they cannot go against their own children . fear
As suggestions, Rev. Body shared the proposition “Where do you stand in God?” Ms. Brooks shared her story of working with three other people to clean up their block. Ms. Sumrell shared how she joined in prayer to help some of those congregated on her front porch. Sometimes people don’t know how to help themselves. Mr. Payton shared that whoever wants help— if you need personal help, if you need referrals, if you need people at an event, if you need volunteers, if you want help—people will be there. Ms. Elam shared again that we should be free to call on the others in the Citizen Leaders sessions from our Participant List.
Organizing by Building on Strengths Mr. Grady shared some of his experience saying that organizers deal with a lot of different personalities. And together we can organize to achieve what we want to achieve if we build on our strengths. Ms. Wiley shared her approach of dealing with people and organizing around something they have a passion for (e.g. gardening, safety, kids).
Ms. Browne pointed out that there are different ways to organize people. One way is to organize around people’s frustrations, which brings people together around anger. You can alternatively organize by building on people’s strengths and community strengths. One example is the difference between telling a teenage mother all the things she is doing wrong versus continually asking her what the best thing she did for her child that week was. Getting a list of what a new mother is doing well gives something to build on and makes her proud of what she has accomplished. The same goes for a police chief. It is a different conversation to ask the police chief about all the crimes in the neighborhood than it is to ask him about community safety. Asking about community safety gives people a sense as to how they can contribute to safety and allows the police chief to remember why he became a police chief. Ms. Brooks shared how we all have to get involved in community safety now as opposed to the perception that police solve problems by themselves.
Tell of an experience in the community that a personal highpoint for you, where you said to yourself “People really can make a difference.”
We all had a chance to tell about our own personal highpoints to a partner. Around the room some of us were proud of: . starting a block club and moving it forward . getting a group of men together to mentor young teenagers . “ helping other kids with their homework when the teacher asks me to (Ladarius Sumrell).”
We noted that the effect of asking positive questions was: . people listened . I wanted to hear the answer . I felt empowered . my faith increased . I was proud of my response . someone else hears powerful and inspiring stories . it encourages positive thinking/prayer . I was very involved in the answer . such questions get back good stuff.
Good questions are positive, are open-ended, encourage people’s hopes, and they help people remember experiences worth valuing. These are questions that you would appreciate someone else asking you. In pairs, we came up with positive questions to ask our project teams which included: . Where do you want to be in 3-5 years? . What are your goals for this block? . How do we pool our resources as a community? . What can you bring to the community? . As a child what did you want to be? How are you living up to that spirit? Other questions can be found in the Community Innovation Guide, page 4. The Community Innovation Guide, page 3, is also a good reference for the meeting we are to hold with our project teams.
The kids closed the meeting by sharing with us their drawings of what they want the community to be: . Linda Sumrell shared her buildings and flowers with angels above.. . LaDarius Sumrell shared his colorful buildings in a community . Theophilus Sumrell shared his neighborhood with trees which spell out his name. Citizen Leaders Deciding on a Project Idea July 28, 1998
Outcomes: . to share results of holding a team meeting and asking positive questions . to learn how to generate project ideas with team members . to prioritize ideas into one project plan . to learn how break an idea down into steps for action
AGENDA 5:30 PM Welcome Opening Prayer
5:35 Building a Project Team PM Please turn to your neighbor and share with them . Who’s working with you on a project team . What skills these people bring . How you learned about your team members
5:45 PM Brainstorming “What small change in West Garfield Park can make a big difference?”
6:00 PM Screening Ideas In your smaller groups, please decide on 3 ideas that do the following: . an achieveable project . that gets people involved who may not otherwise be involved . that has a visible result in the next 3 months . that will have a long-term impact
6:30 PM Choosing an Idea Which idea has leadership and commitment, leadership, and involvement?
6:50 PM Planning Action Steps
7:20 PM Questions? Evaluations
Next For the next workshop, please meet with your project teams to gather and decide steps: on a project idea.
Next meeting: Tuesday, August 11, 5:30PM - 7:30PM Bethel New Life Topic: Determining a project plan and budget
Citizen Leaders Deciding on a Project Idea July 28, 1998
Outcomes: . to share results of holding a team meeting and asking positive questions . to learn how to generate project ideas with team members . to prioritize ideas into one project plan . to learn how to break an idea down into steps for action
COR materials: refreshments, nametags, markers, easels, tape recorder, cassette IMAGINE CHICAGO materials: sing-in sheets, agendas, teaching agendas, evaluation forms, project planning sheets, brainstorming sheets.
TEACHING AGENDA
5:30 PM Welcome Opening prayer
5:35 PM Building a project team This is about the time that you want to have a project team in place. The project team may change. As your project starts, others will want to join your team. Things may arise which cause others to leave your team. You do want to have a pretty good core group in place now.
Please turn to your neighbor and share with them: . Who’s working with you on a project team . What talents these people bring . How you learned about your team members Ask for volunteers to share some of their stories to the larger group
5:45 PM Brainstorming Mildred One important part of keeping a team together is making sure that everyone has a chance to have their voice heard. Brainstorming is a good technique to gather a lot of ideas and let everyone have a chance to be included.
For example, let’s do a brainstorm together as a whole group. Remember, please say whatever is on your mind. Every idea is a good idea and we build off what each other says. We’ll have five minutes. I want you to raise your hand and tell me your ideas about “What small change in West Garfield Park would make a big difference?”
Have 1 or 2 people write these ideas down on the easel paper
5:50 PM Debrief: How many people were included? What was important in getting you to feel comfortable sharing your ideas? or What could have been done to get more people to share their ideas? Handout on brainstorming Point out the progress in the binders, CIG, page 5
6:00 PM Screening ideas Peter With a brainstorming session, you are going to get a lot of ideas. What you want to do is sort through and get to some of the best ideas. For this particular type of project, we want: . an achievable project . will have a visible result in the next 3 months . will have a long-term impact
One way that you can judge this is to look at the questions in the Community Innovation Guide on page 6 . How does it build on positive things happening in the neighborhood? . How will it involve different people in the neighborhood (especially youth) and build their self-esteem? . How can people from the neighborhood help plan the change, make it happen, and sustain it? . How will the change help your neighborhood continue to innovate? . How will others be able to see the difference you have made?
6:10 PM We are going to break up into teams of about 5 people (one COR member goes with each team). I would like each team to choose the 3 best ideas that you feel meet these standards. You will have 10 minutes.
6:20 PM Debrief: . What are some examples of projects that meet the standards? . How did you know it was achievable in the next three months with a long-term impact?
6:30 PM Prioritize ideas You want to choose a final idea that: . people are committed to . that has leadership . that can succeed How might you decide a final idea? Who would be willing to nominate an idea that you will provide leadership for? Who would be willing to put time into this idea? Vote among the final ideas. In your small groups, decide on a final project idea.
6:40 PM How did you decide on a final idea? Have a blank worksheet with the four main components that people can fill out. Keep a master worksheet up front with suggestions as to what to fill in. Jot down how this meets the criteria on CIG page 6. (We will make sure all projects meet these criteria.) 6:45 PM Idea Specific steps for action Brainstorm any possible steps that it might take to start this project. Project Planning Sheet?
6:55 PM Order these ideas: Number all the ideas that need to happen in the next month in the order that they need to happen.
7:00 PM What materials will be needed for these steps?
7:05 PM Who will take responsibility for making sure these steps happen? Make sure that there is someone responsible and that they are aware of when they need to take that step.
7:10 PM What we have just done is lead a team process, where everyone is included. We moved everywhere from getting ideas, to deciding on a final idea to actually writing down the steps it takes to make that happen. The process may take a little bit longer that it did today, but the important point is to make everyone feel included in the process of making decisions.
THIS IS SOMETHING FOR YOU TO TAKE BACK AND LEAD YOUR PROJECT TEAMS THROUGH
7:15 PM I want you to turn to a neighbor and tell them how you can use this process to come up with a plan with your project teams. Share how people are going to use this process with the whole group
7:25 Questions?
7:30 Evaluations Citizen Leaders Deciding on a Project Idea Minutes for July 28, 1998
Brainstorming Ms. Wiley lead a discussion about the principles of brainstorming. Encourage people to give. Every idea is a good idea, and . defer judgment . offbeat ideas encouraged . vast number of ideas Everyone encouraged to contribute. We then brainstormed on the questions of Imagine West Garfield Park if….. and, What small change would make a big difference in West Garfield Park? These ideas included:
Screening Ideas How do we take 20 ideas and narrow them down to a few ideas that we can work on? We talked about the four criteria to think about for Citizen Leader projects: . achievable . involves people in the community, especially those that might not otherwise be involved . have a visible result in the next 3 months . have a long-term impact We broke up into three groups to choose 3 projects that meet the above criteria, and then to present one idea to the whole group.
The first group of Ms. Ward, Ms. Fair, Ms. Moore, and Mr. Hardiman presented their idea of a peer-tutoring program.
The second group of Ms. Cherry, Mr. Jackson, Ms. Griffin, Ms. Turner, Ms. Hannah, and Mr. Payton presented their idea of having youth serve the homeless.
The third group of Ms. Smith, Ms. Thornton, Ms. Hill, Ms. Brook, Mr. Body, and Mr. Grady presented their idea of turning vacant lots into recreational facilities like tennis courts or volleyball courts.
Prioritize Ideas . Flush out the details of the ideas . Vote . Ask questions like “Who like to nominate an idea that you are willing to provide leadership for?” “Who in the group would be committed to this idea? Citizen Leaders Preparing the Proposal August 11, 1998
Outcomes: To plan action steps from a project idea To learn how to plan a long-term budget To learn tips on writing a proposal AGENDA
5:30 Welcome Opening Prayer Agenda overview
5:40 Progress check How many people already have a firm project idea? What questions would you like addressed in order to move forward? 5:45 Divide into groups: . those that are getting their project teams together . those with teams ready to move forward 6:10 The first two pages of the proposal An example will be given as a whole group Work on your practice proposal in pairs
6:45 Make an action plan Use the Project Planning Sheet to describe your project steps
7:10 Budget How will you invest money to create long-term change? . include materials for the project . include materials to tell about your project (communications) . include meeting expenses . don’t include salaries (they cannot be covered in Citizen Leaders) . do some calling to figure out how much things might cost if you don’t know . be as specific as possible
7:25 Fiscal Agent
7:30 Evaluations Adjourn
Next meeting Tuesday, September 1, 1998 5:30-7:30 PM Bethel New Life Topic: Proposal Review Citizen Leaders Preparing an Action Plan and Proposal August 11, 1998
Outcomes: To plan action steps from a project idea To learn how to plan a long-term budget To learn tips on writing a proposal
Materials: COR materials: refreshments, nametags, markers, easels, tape recorder, cassette IMAGINE CHICAGO materials: sign-in sheets, agendas, teaching agendas, evaluation forms, project planning sheets, proposal packets
TEACHING AGENDA
5:30 Welcome Opening Prayer
5:35 Agenda overview The goal today is to give you the guidance you need to write down your idea in proposal form. The COR office staff and the staff of IMAGINE CHICAGO are here to help you wherever you are in your planning. We know that there are different people in this room in different places in your project planning. We know the first steps of getting people to work with you are the hardest. We are here to help you today during the workshop, and we are available to help you individually. How many people already have a firm project idea? What questions would you like addressed in order to move forward?
5:45 If there are a significant number of people who need help getting a project team together or formalizing an idea, then break the class into two groups – those with teams ready to move forward and those still struggling to recruit their project teams.. Peter and the COR office will work with those who need help getting teams together or deciding a project focus.. Bliss will help those who have project ideas work on the first page of the proposal to clarify that in writing
6:10 Take a sample idea and walk through the first page of the proposal. How would you describe this idea? Why is this important to you? Then have everybody people work in pairs to write down their project description on the first page of the proposal. If some don’t have any project ideas, they can copy down the group example on their sheets as a model to refer to. They can also take their own notes on the practice proposal forms. 6:25 Take a sample idea and walk through the second page of the proposal. How will this build on assets in the community? After each question, have everybody try to write down their answers to the questions on the second page. 6:45 Idea Specific Steps for Action COR office Brainstorm any possible steps that it might take to start this project. Project Planning Sheet Order these ideas: Number all the ideas that need to happen in the next month in the order that they need to happen. What materials will be needed for these steps? Who will take responsibility for making sure these steps happen? Make sure that there is someone responsible and that they are aware of when they need to complete that step.
7:10 BUDGET Leveraging Resources: How can you invest money to create long-term change? . save money, spend wisely . buy materials that will last for the long term . leverage money by using some for a fundraiser . leverage money by using it to get more support (from local businesses, etc) Go through the steps you wrote and write down any resources you might need in order to get this done. Write these down on your Project Planning Sheets. Have people fill them out the practice budget section on the proposal packets
Tips . make sure to include materials to tell about your project (communications) . include materials for the project . include meeting expenses . don’t include salaries (they cannot be covered in Citizen Leaders) . do some calling (research) to figure out how much things might cost if you don’t know . be as specific as possible (what kinds of tools are you going to need?, how many people do you expect at your cleanup celebration—how many hot dogs are you going to buy?) . include in-kind contributions and other sources of funding that you expect? . the budget should match the steps/activities in the project. . the amount requested should not be more than the expenses listed. . it helps to have other sources of funding. . try to get the most out of your money, as you would at home
7:25 Fiscal Agent Each project needs a fiscal agent for their proposal. This can be a local church, community organization, agency…. Fiscal Agent Responsibility sheet. Talk to Bethel COR about their willingness to be a fiscal agent for some of the projects?
7:30 Questions? Evaluations Citizen Leaders Proposal Feedback September 1, 1998
Outcomes: to discuss proposals and get feedback for improvement to clarify the writing of the proposals to answer questions/issues related to completing or revising proposals AGENDA
5:30 Welcome Agenda overview
5:35 Progress check How many people have already finished their proposal?
5:40 Divide into groups: . those that are still working on their proposal . those that have already finished their proposal
5:45 Proposal Evaluation Form . Is the project achievable in the next three months? . Will the project get people involved, be sustained, and keep people involved? . Will the project have a lasting, positive impact?
5:55 Proposal Presentations and Feedback( 10 – 15 min) a piece Each person presents their proposal as the group flips through the proposal pages. The group focuses on the Proposal Evaluation questions Community Innovation Project: . Is the project achievable in the next 3 months? . Are the implementation steps clear?
7:10 Grant Request Forms
7:20 Questions? Appointment for individual assistance Evaluations Adjourn
Next meeting: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 5:30-7:30 PM Bethel New Life Topic: Project Implementation Citizen Leaders Implementation and Keeping Momentum September 15, 1998
AGENDA
5:30 Welcome
5:35 Citizen Leaders video segment
5:40 Action plans make sure you have steps that are detailed enough to act on
6:10 Create monthly calendars for the months of Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec. 6:40 Recognizing volunteers, recognizing small successes Guest speaker: Helen Massey, One Church One School or, Jean Hill, One Church One School
7:05 Communicating Project Descriptions Having a short, two sentence description of what you are doing will help your project. Discuss this first with your neighbor, then try to write a 2 sentence description. Grant Awards Ceremony for those completed, approved proposals.
7:25 Evaluations
7:30 Adjourn
Next meeting: Tuesday, September 29, 1998, 5:30 – 7:30PM Bethel New Life Topic: Communicating Progress CITIZEN LEADERS IMPLEMENTATION AND KEEPING MOMENTUM September 15, 1998
Outcomes: To be able to speak concisely about the project To detail the action plan into smaller steps To learn how to keep team momentum going
Materials: CPR materials: refreshments, nametags, markers, easels IMAGINE CHICAGO materials: sign-in sheets, agendas, teaching agendas, evaluation forms, project planning sheets, updated contact sheet, photocopies of action plans, monthly calendars through December, poster board, markers, IMAGINE CHICAGO video
TEACHING AGENDA
5:30 PM Welcome
5:35 PM Citizen Leaders video segment “Once you get it down on a piece of paper, you can run with it.” What do you think she means? “You can see the vision… and you can see what you need to get it done, so that you can act on it.”
5:40 PM Clarify Action Plans I’ve been very impressed with your proposals. They have shown a lot of thought. What we want to do now is really get into the details of these plans. It’s like a helicopter, where you see the ground from 10,000 feet, from 1,000 feet, and now we want to be at the ground level. You’ve decided a project idea, have written it into a proposal, and now we want to break it down into small, actionable steps. Photocopy actions plans from the proposals. Try to break down each step into its details and who will be responsible. E.g. Making a flyer may involved design work, going somewhere to use a computer, bringing it to a print shop, and making copies. Brainstorm any other steps on the projects. Delegate responsibilities to team members. Try to include everyone on your team with some responsibilities. (You may want to assign roles through discussion with the team.) Who would be interested or impacted by your project? For example, starting a park will interest kids in the area, the neighbors around the park, the Park District, other environmental groups such as Openlands. These people are potential supporters and volunteers and should be contacted. How will your team contact them? 6:10 PM Create monthly calendars for the months of September-December. Now take your steps and put them on the calendars for September- December. Include dates such as when something should be started, when it should be finished and the dates of important events. This calendar will serve as a clear blueprint for action as well as a marker for progress. You may want to make calendars for your team to reference when necessary. Do individual coaching with the teams. If there are unresolved issues that would benefit from input from the group, have teams present 1-2 primary challenges to the wider group for input.
How IMAGINE CHICAGO and the COR office can help: be at team meetings, help in the forming of teams, check-in on the progress of participants, look for outside resources.
KEEPING MOMENTUM AMONG THE TEAM 6:40 PM How to recognize volunteers: Helen guest speaker? . careful documenting . taking pictures . thank-you notes . verbal recognition
Recognizing small successes Turning the proposal in equals one success. What I’d like you to do is draw/display your building blocks, your success/progress to date. Keeping progress on the calendar and small successes present to the group will help keep momentum and morale. Take first implementation step by next meeting, September 29.
7:05 PM Communication, Part I Having a clear description of your project will also help get a new volunteer, solicit support form a business, talk to a newspaper reporter. It helps both you and your team to know and reminded of what you are trying to accomplish and why. Discuss this first with your neighbor, then try to write a two sentence description of your project. Try to answer the Who? What? Where? When? questions. Also, write a one-sentence reason for why you are doing this. Practice first with a neighbor. Then share with the whole group. Get feedback from the group as to whether this description makes sense and is complete. Pass out contact information sheet for more help with connections. Grant Awards Ceremony for those completed, approved proposals.
7:25 PM Ask participants what would be helpful to them at this point. Evaluations
7:30 PM Adjourn Citizen Leaders Communicating Progress 9/29/98
AGENDA
5:30 Welcome Workshop preview
5:40 Communicating progress In your groups, prepare for the Oprah Winfrey show with the following: . What is it that you are doing? . How did you get started? . What stories capture what your project is about? . How did you get others involved? . Why did you get involved? . What have you accomplished? What do you hope to accomplish? . What could the viewers learn from your example?
6:40 Documenting progress, part 1 What information would you like to have about another project in order for you to learn from it?
6:50 Sustaining Progress What is needed for residents like yourself to continue making a difference in West Garfield Park?
7:20 Grant presentations
7:30 Adjourn
Next meeting: Tuesday, October 13, 1998, 5:30 – 7:30PM Bethel New Life Topic: Sustaining Progress Citizen Leaders Communicating Progress September 29, 1998
Materials: COR materials: refreshments, nametags, markers, easels, IMAGINE CHICAGO materials: sign-in sheets, agendas, teaching agendas, evaluation forms, Tips for Publicity sheet, updated contact sheet, Kid’s Guide to Social Action as an example of the final reports.
TEACHING AGENDA
5:30 Welcome
5:35 Agenda Preview Today we are going to talk about describing your project to others who may want to hear about it. In what situations might telling about your project help build necessary support for it? (recruiting new volunteers, leveraging funds for in-kind contributions, obtaining positive publicity for your neighborhood, encouraging others to learn from your example...) Pass out the Tips for Publicity worksheet
5:40 Communicating progress Briefly go over the worksheet: Identify people on your team willing to be interviewed. It helps if everyone on the team can discuss the project, but there may be a couple of people particularly interested in interviewing….2 minute summary…anecdotes….other things. We just discussed several different situations in which telling about your project will help build support. What I’d like to do today as a group is to prepare presentations for our favorite talk show host who is interested in changing people’s lives. Who do you think that is? Who would like to volunteer to play Oprah for us today? Now, we haven’t been invited on the show yet, who knows what might happen, but this will give us a good chance to prepare presentations about our projects that are direct and to the point. On TV, you don’t always have a lot of time to say your ideas, so you have to be to the point. Oprah is armed with several questions on your agenda: . What is it that you are doing? . How did you get started? . What stories capture what your project is about? . How did you get others involved? . Why did you get involved? . What have you accomplished? . What do you hope to accomplish? . What could the viewers learn from your example? Oprah may not ask all of these questions, she will ask some of them, and then throw in some of her own. I’d think about answers for all of them. Would someone like to volunteer to demonstrate what an interview might be like? 6:30 Documenting progress, part 1 One thing that we want to do as a group is to create a process where you can learn from other people and others can learn from you. When you are looking for advice for your project you may turn to a book like this to read about others who have created a project similar to yours or just to get inspiration.
What information would you like to have about another project in order for you to learn from it?
You are also going to be asked to create something that others will be able to learn from. Your display/report will be a summary of your story, much like we talked about today. We’ll give you more information about this next time, but note, it is going to include pictures, so make sure to make doubles of your favorites!
6:40 Sustaining Progress led by Mildred. Discussion of how to maintain Citizen Leader progress in West Garfield Park. Need to determine objective of the conversation. If the objective is: “I’ve noticed that many of your projects were focused on youth, and that some of your projects might need more/larger support than that of an individual Citizen Leader team. I wanted to discuss this to see what you support and to see if Bethel New Life or the COR office should help in organizing a larger process. This discussion will be to get the Citizen Leaders’ opinions on how to keep getting people involved in West Garfield Park after the end of this Citizen Leader class. Options may include: . holding another session of Citizen Leaders . having this class of Citizen Leaders help lead/teach new Citizen Leaders . organizing around the issues which arise among Citizen Leaders—possibly larger projects . having COR help lead other residents who want to start community projects . having group sessions of Citizen Leaders periodically as a way to keep contact among current Citizen Leaders as well as for others in the community to join. This discussion may be continued at future Citizen Leader meetings. To sustain a change process in West Garfield Park, need to make sure the structures are in place to support it. This conversation is about what structures need to be in place to support change here.
7:10 Grant presentations (for groups yet to receive grants)
7:25 Evaluations
7:30 Adjournment CITIZEN LEADERS West Garfield Park Minutes for September 29, 1998
In what situations might telling about your project help build necessary support for it?
. block club members to help volunteer . get in-kind contributions/space . key people to work with children . resources—getting others to share resources/power . others learn from you . presentations at meetings, at other organizations . talking to a newsletter or newspaper reporter . build image of organization/community
Communicating Progress Some tips from the Tips for Telling Your Story handout included:
1. Identify a person who is willing to be interviewed. This person should be enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the project. It also helps if they are not too shy!
2. Be able to give a summary of your project in two minutes. This may seem fast -- try timing yourself -- but a reporter or funder will then have “the big picture” and will ask you questions.
Have a few anecdotes (personal stories) ready to tell about the project. . things people said . how folks reacted . funny or inspiring stories about what you’ve learned These help others understand your project on a human level.
3. Some other things to be ready to talk about: How the project got going How you got people interested in helping or participating What you know understand about your community (that you didn’t know before) What you hope to accomplish by this project
It is a newspaper reporter’s job to tell about newsworthy events, but they may not know about your particular program. Prepare the most important points you want to say in the first couple of minutes and call them. Our own Oprah Winfrey (Mildred Wiley) then interviewed Pat Thompson about her project to create a student/parent patrol at Tilton School. She is a parent advocate and ‘mother of the school’ concerned about the safety of the school. The patrol will consist of both parents and students and will increase attendance, grades, and parental involvement as well as being a deterrent against drugs in those areas. It will give the students a chance to build leadership.
Oprah went into the audience and also interviewed Altha King and Linda Moore. Altha told how she got about 20 people together to renovate an old house on the 2100 block of W. Carroll. With the dedication and support of members, they turned this into 3 classrooms and a library for children. They opened this past summer and have continued to serve children after school.
Linda described the need of students to excel in grades on her block. She explained how her block club was going to create an achievement awards program that will help purchase school supplies for children, will help pair students of to help each other in school, and will buy achievement awards for those people who excel in the program. The achievement awards program will be coordinated with the United Allison Center.
Documenting Progress We both want to tell our story so others can learn from us, as well to be able to learn from other people. What kind of information would you like to have about another project in order for you to learn from it? . Who?/What?/Where?/When?/Why? . The project’s progress/ how they did it . Who benefits from the project? . What motivated the people to get involved? . Who started the project/ when the project was started?
Obstacles that the project faced: . So what? What’s different? . Is there a charge for the project?/Is it free? . How to get in touch with someone about the project?
Sustaining Progress Mildred led a discussion about trends in the proposals. She has noticed that 7 of the 11 proposals deal directly with youth, that many Citizen Leaders were motivated to do something about it. Many Citizen Leaders agreed with this and said that others in the community would be willing to work for this as well.
Mildred summarized the discussion by saying she see a cry for youth, that there was strength at the table, that all should do some investigation, and that there were many possibilities, including with the Board of Education, etc. Participants agreed to talk to others in the community to see what others in the area want and what as a group we could organize. Citizen Leaders Sustaining Progress October 13, 1998
AGENDA 5:30 PM Welcome
5:35 PM Sentence stories Share brief stories of progress/challenge in projects
5:45 PM Sustainable Development: What are the important factors of sustainable development?
Imagine your project a year from now. You have successfully created an ongoing project with a life of its own. Looking back over the past year, what factors have been important in achieving this point of success?
6:30 PM A Commitment to Sustained Development. How can your project build long-term success?
6:45 PM Other Items: Site visits. Project Profiles for Community Innovation Bank T-shirts
7:00 PM The Future of Citizen Leaders lead by Mildred Wylie
7:30 PM Adjourn
Next meeting: Tuesday, October 27, 1998, 5:30 – 7:30PM Bethel New Life Topic: Assessing Progress Citizen Leaders Sustaining Progress October 13, 1998
Materials: COR Materials: refreshments, nametags, markers, easels, IMAGINE CHICAGO materials: sign-in sheets, agendas, teaching agendas, evaluation forms
TEACHING AGENDA
5:30 Welcome
5:35 Sentence stories “I would like to go around the room and have you all share one sentence about a recent project success and one story about a current project struggle.” After everyone has had a chance to share, have Citizen Leaders comment on trends that they heard or offer encouragement, suggestions to others in the room. Include your observations as a facilitator.
5:45 Sustainable Development Imagine your project a year from now. You have successfully created an ongoing project that is making a positive difference in the community. Looking back over the past year, what factors have been important in achieving this impact? “Imagine it is now October, 1999. All of you are now recognized as having accomplished something quite remarkable due to your vision and persistence and your organizing ability. Who would like to tell us about your project’s development over the past year? Are there any volunteers?”
Have a Citizen Leader volunteer to talk about the factors that have made their project effective over the past year. Ask good questions as a facilitator to probe some of the themes in the responses. Review sustainability factors sheet adding any insights from this example discussion to the list of sustainability factors on the Resource Bank sheet
Standing in the Future sheet: Talk about and give examples of each of the items on the top of the Resource Bank sheet. After each point, give all Citizen Leaders some time to draw out their hopes and visions as well as the strategy for accomplishing them. Have the Citizen Leaders first discuss this in pairs and then write down their thoughts on the Standing in the Future worksheet.
Additionally, talk about how connection with a community organization or community group has helped sustain Citizen Leader projects. How will each of the Citizen Leader projects create sustaining connections? 6:30 A Commitment to Sustained Development What will you do with your project to start planning for the long-term? Have Citizen Leaders fill out the worksheet about what they will do at the next meeting or on an ongoing basis.
6:45 Other Items I will be making Site Visits to each of your projects. Please let me know about project events or team meetings you would like me to visit. We ask all project leaders to fill out a final report, a profile of your project, which will capture some of the accomplishments of your projects. It will include both pictures and written stories and accomplishments. It will also include a final financial report. Here is the form that you will use. As you can see, it includes many of the items that you mentioned last meeting that you would like to learn about other projects. Doing the report in this form will help you explain your project in a way others can learn about it. This form will also be used in IMAGINE CHICAGO’s Citizen Leaders Manual, available for download from the Imagine Chicago web site. And you will use the form in the final Citizen Leaders celebration sometime early next year where you can celebrate your successes with other Citizen Leaders. Along with this form, you will submit a financial report which details how you spent your money, including receipts if applicable. Questions?
7:00 The Future of Citizen Leaders lead by Mildred Wiley What commitment and energy would residents be willing to put in for a cry for youth? How broad is resident commitment and support for organization around this issue? What continued format, if any, should this group continue: . periodic Citizen Leaders forums after the last one in October? . a new organizing format for youth in the community, inviting the broader public and other agencies as well? . connected to COR office and informed about new events, initiatives?
7:25 Evaluations
7:30 Adjourn Citizen Leaders Continuing the Leadership October 27, 1998
AGENDA 5:30 PM Welcome Refreshments
5:35 PM Project Timelines Tell the story of your project through: . past accomplishments and challenges . upcoming achievements
6:35 PM Assessing Impact . Ways I am different . Ways my block club or people I work with are different . Ways the community is different . Things I want to keep progress going
7:00 PM The Future of Citizen Leaders What do you need to continue and to support your project work?
7:20 PM Other Items: Site Visits. Project Profiles for Community Innovation Bank Graduation DAC grants Group photo Evaluations
7:30 PM Adjourn
Citizen Leaders Continuing the Leadership October 27, 1998
Materials: COR materials: refreshments, nametags, markers, easels, IMAGINE CHICAGO materials: sign-in sheets, agendas, teaching agendas, final evaluation forms, extras of Citizen Leaders project profile report form, CAMERA
TEACHING AGENDA
5:30 Welcome
5:35 Sharing Project Stories One promising sign of our time together is that people are relaying messages to members of other groups. This type of communication is a really positive sign. That’s why one of the things that you have in front of you is the contact information for other people in the group right now. I know that everybody could not make every meeting, and I’m not sure that you all know the details of each other’s work.
What I would like to do is share what we have been doing. We’ll have about 3 minutes for each group. I was hoping to introduce who you are, what your project is about, and what has happened including both progress and challenges, and what you have learned. Remember that you are listening to people and things happening two blocks down, and in the same community. One thing I hope for is what Joan said earlier, that we can hear each other, support each other, and help each other out.
Remember what we talked about communication. Try to say the basic facts first who, what, where, when, and then get into the details. Pieces of these stories will be familiar, but this will be a chance to put some of those pieces together. What you say will be the kinds of information you want to put on your project report sheets. (Peter – take notes on each project on the project report sheets)
6:15 PM Group Learnings What have you learned in this process of meeting together and organizing our project teams? How would you teach others who want to start their own community projects?
What impact has the process of meeting together and organizing projects had on: . you as individuals? . your block clubs, your project teams? . the community?
How are we going to keep building on this momentum?
6:45 The Future of Citizen Leaders lead by Mildred Wiley What commitment and energy would residents be willing to put in for a cry for youth? How broad is resident commitment and support for organization around this issue? What continued format, if any, should this group continue: . periodic Citizen Leaders forums after the last one in October? . a new organizing format for youth in the community, inviting the broader public and other agencies as well? . connected to COR office and informed about new events, initiatives?
7:15 Other Items project profile reports graduation DAC grants Group photo
7:25 Evaluations
7:30 Adjourn