As a curriculum supporter you will get free access to a webinar on this content of the update including high-tech public participation tools, conflict resolution and approaches to shrinking budgets when you help support our major NCI curriculum Update. This is our biggest curriculum update in 6 years. We are revising our trainings to include [...]

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Did you know that NCI has NCI Resources Free for Download? Our most popular resource is the RFP template. NCI has developed the first model Request for Proposal (RFP), a general guide for the procurement of services relating to a community planning project that includes a NCI charrette. We also have videos, presentations, articles and [...]

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At NCI, we are interested in not just how to plan and run a successful charrette but how to assure long-term project success. Visionary projects get approved and built in a timely fashion when strong leadership is combined with a collaborative team approach. On one end of the leadership spectrum you have the guru approach [...]

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NCI is offering a 25% discount on in-house NCI Certificate Trainings for the week of December 5-9. This slot opened up unexpectedly so we are offering this last minute deal. The sale applies to both the 3-day NCI Charrette System™ and the advanced 1.5-day NCI Charrette Management and Facilitation™ Certificate Trainings. This is a one [...]

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NCI is about to undertake a significant curriculum upgrade. Our new courses will include hands-on learning in high-tech tools for distance participation and meeting facilitation including the use of touch-tables and keypad polling. We will also add a module on tools for pre-charrette conflict resolution/consensus building as well as a regional scenario planning case study. [...]

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Free Technical Assistance Available from NCI and Other Organizations NCI is a technical assistance provider working through a grant to the Project for Public Spaces from US EPA’s Office of Sustainable Communities under their Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program. This grant makes it possible for us and our partners at the newly formed coalition, [...]

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