The National Charrette Institute Community Forum is a new blog maintained by NCI staff members Bill Lennertz, Aarin Lutzenhiser and Tamara Failor. Launched in January of 2008, the blog currently contains dozens of valuable tips, tools and techniques that were previously found in NCI’s monthly e-newsletters, which are now categorized and searchable.

We look forward to this forum becoming a place for discussion, shared learning and problem solving for those interested in NCI Dynamic Planning and charrettes around the world. We have closed comments on archived posts but will open comments on new posts and welcome your feedback and personal experiences. We encourage you to email (use the contact/submit page) your questions, “war stories,” and success stories. We will post them with our own comments and leave them open for public comment. Thank you for your support and participation in this exciting new endeavor.

For more information on the National Charrette Institute, our products and trainings, visit us at www.charretteinstitute.org.

The National Charrette Institute (NCI) is an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational institution. We teach the transformative process of Dynamic Planning to create healthy community plans. Our actions include:

• Teaching professionals and community leaders Dynamic Planning, a holistic, collaborative planning process that harnesses the talents and energies of all interested parties to create and support a feasible plan.
• Advancing the fields of community planning and public involvement through research, publications and facilitation.