NCI Charrette System™ Certificate Training – January 11-13: Miami, FL – March 19-21: Portland, OR **Early registration ends 1/14/12 – June 4-6: Washington, DC **Early registration ends 3/30/12 – July TBA: Harvard University in Cambridge, MA – October TBA: Vancouver, BC NCI Charrette Management and Facilitation Certificate Training – March 22-23: Portland, OR **Early registration [...]

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Below are links to two recent articles describing how charrettes are making a difference in healthcare. Dougal Hewitt, Senior Vice President for Bon Secours Richmond Health System writes about the East End Neighborhood Charrette in Richmond, VA where Bon Secours literally took facility planning outside the walls of the hospital. Joanna Lombard and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, [...]

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Thanks to our most recent donors, we only need $700 more to reach our goal. Please join them in this final push to raise the $10,000 needed to update our curriculum. We are grateful for the support! This is our biggest update yet and we need extra resources to do it right. The new trainings [...]

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The community design world is going through a major change. Budgets are smaller, agency staff are being called upon to do more and high-tech tools are making it possible for people to connect and collaborate in new ways. In response, NCI is working on changes to our curriculum that will offer a broader range of [...]

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Register now through December 9th and receive a $50 Early Bird Discount on registration. Each January the MRED+U Program invites the public to join its graduate students in learning the ins-and-outs of planning a charrette with National Charrette Institute instructor David Brain and other local real estate industry leaders. This year the training seminar will [...]

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