NCI’s Executive Director, Bill Lennertz will be at CNU 18 - New Urbanism: Rx for Healthy Places conference this week in Atlanta.  If you happen to be there stop by and see our booth #22 that we will be sharing with the Form-Based Codes Institute.  You can also check out  the NCI Charrette System: Stories of Community [...]

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The upcoming NCI Charrette System™ Training in Calgary, AB this June makes it easy for our Canadian friends to earn their NCI certificates. We are centrally located this year in Calgary thanks again to Olds College. Sign up now and join the increasing number of Canadians who are using the charrette system to save time and [...]

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For the first time ever, NCI is offering our full week of certificate trainings on the East Coast. You can take the NCI Charrette System™ Certificate and NCI Charrette Management and Facilitation™ Certificate trainings this June 7-11 in downtown Washington, DC. More details and registration.

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June 2, 2010, 10 am PDT (1 pm EDT)
This webinar is the quickest, most economical way to understand the NCI Charrette System™ as taught in our certificate programs. NCI faculty Bill Lennertz and David Brain will describe the three phases and over 45 tools that comprise the NCI Charrette System™. This webinar first covers the [...]

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HUD will soon issue a NOFA under the Sustainable Communities Partnership. The Partnership has identified capacity building for federal agencies and grant recipients in its list of priorities. NCI’s new project consulting program builds local capacity in collaborative planning through on-the-job training. Please e-mail us for more information.

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Avoiding Project Failure Due to Inaccurate Stakeholder Information
When an opposition group moves in after a charrette and undermines project implementation it is usually because the project team either was unaware of their existence or did not fully understand their true position. One powerful method for verifying information is to conduct confidential stakeholder interviews.
Confidential interviews conducted [...]

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Facebook, Twitter, Blogs! What to do?
Social Media for Public Involvement Workshop
Online video of the full 3.5-hour workshop and speaker presentations in PDF format.
This workshop, originally presented 2/19/10, is a joint presentation of the Oregon APA and the National Charrette Institute.
Social media is a powerful tool for planners to stay connected with the community [...]

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