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Wednesday, July 25
 

7:00am EDT

8:15am EDT

Assets and Innovation in Rural Communities
Transportation as Community Capital: A Case Study on the Expansion of Transit in Rural Nebraska, Orienting Rural Communities to Tourism, Reflecting on Clues to Rural Community Survival


8:15am EDT

Connecting for Change
Resources for Effective Community Change, Constructive Community Collaborations for Sustainability: Revitalizing an Industrial Legacy City, Voices of Communities Aiming to Enhance Healthy Connections: Findings for Reshaping Policies, Systems, and the Environment


8:15am EDT

Displaced People and Community
Attitudes Toward Community for Residents Displaced From Disaster-Impacted Areas, Collective Impact and a Wicked Social Problem: Addressing Student Homelessness in Kansas City, Kansas, Renaissance of Intersections: Addressing the need to renew our understanding of intersectionality through an Extension/refugee partnership case study


8:15am EDT

Innovative Approaches to Community Development
People and Places: The Nature and Location of Talent in Indiana; Training Grandmother Leaders: Strengthening Human, Social and Cultural Capital to Improve the Lives of Girls; Building Communty in Violent Times? Insights from Faith-Based Organizations


8:15am EDT

Equitable Community Engagement - Tools and Strategies for Community Development
Community Engagement is considered to be the cornerstone of Community Development. However our efforts often fail to allow residents and stakeholders to truly have an impact on the decisions that are shaping their communities. The Detroit CDS Community Engagement Fellows will share tools and strategies to promote resident-driven decision making.

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8:15am EDT

The Relational Challenges and Power Dynamics of Community Engaged Scholarship
Institutions of higher learning have a long history of doing things to and for communities, but are less experienced in working with communities. This session will explore the relational challenges and power dynamics found in engaging communities as we unlearn habits of paternalistic expertise and learn power sharing, participatory skills.

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8:15am EDT

CDS Bylaws Workshop
Connect to discuss and review CDS bylaws update

Moderators

10:00am EDT

New Connections in Community and Economic Development
Taking their destiny in their own hands: the case study of a community trust in the implementation of rural development projects in north-western Botswana; Examining the Relationship of State Spending with Community & Economic Development; Financing Essential Services Through Commmunity Supported Enterprises


10:00am EDT

Social Capital and Community Development
A Micro-to-Macro Model for Community Level Well-being and Social Capital Assessment; Unpacking social capital: Pathways to collective efficacy


10:00am EDT

Community Development as Resiliency Strategy: A Deep Dive into the Social Aspects of Community Resiliency
In this roundtable, we aim to increase understanding of known social dimensions of community resiliency and identify research questions we could collaboratively address, through transformative university-community partnerships, to strengthen community resiliency. Research from Rust to Green’s Living with Water initiative will be used to set the stage for this discussion.

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10:00am EDT

10:00am EDT

The Community Capitals Framework on Film: Stories from Barnesville, MN and Wamego, KS
A set of 14 videos displaying each of the seven Community Capitals Framework capitals in two communities were developed for classroom use. A presentation about the development and use of these videos will serve as a springboard to discuss new methods and technologies for community development education and practice.

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10:00am EDT

The Arts as a Gateway to the Future: New Techniques for Arts-Based Development
Come share the latest ideas, practices, and techniques for arts-based community development. Beyond thinking of art as a cultural asset, we will focus on the practice of creating art, music, dance, comedy and more - and how this can build unlikely partnerships, opportunity, and novel innovation and problem-solving skills.

Moderators

10:00am EDT

CDS at 50
Working session to hear from members on areas of desired improvement, change, and expansion of CDS services and activities

Moderators

11:45am EDT

1:30pm EDT

 
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