We thought you may be interested in this grant opportunity. Let me know if you choose to apply. NCI is available to provide training and facilitation support for your projects. Please contact Bill Lennertz, NCI’s Executive Director at bill@charretteinstitute.org or 503-233-8486 ext 1# RFP now available for Local Sustainability Matching Fund Deadline March 5, 2012 [...]

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We have scholarships for the NCI Charrette System™ Training and the NCI Charrette Management and Facilitation™ Certificate trainings. These are only offered for our Portland, OR, Washington, DC and Vancouver, BC trainings. You may apply for just the NCI Charrette System™ Training or for both trainings in the same week. Please note that the NCI [...]

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Havana Urban Design Charrette: 19-25 February 2012. Havana Study Tour: 26 February – 3 March. 2012. INTBAU Cuba and INTBAU Scandinavia invite you to the 2012 Havana Urban Design Charrette. The 2012 International Charrette will build on our work from 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. International architects and planners are invited to join Cuban [...]

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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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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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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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