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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Charrettes and the Next Generation of Public Involvement and Budgets February 2nd, San Diego, CA Moderator: Bill Lennertz, Director, National Charrette Institute Speakers: – Ken Snyder, Director, PlaceMatters – Darin Dinsmore, President, CrowdBrite – Jason Lally, Director, Decision Lab, PlaceMatters This session will present the latest tools, techniques and the trade-offs of social media and [...]

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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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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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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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November 16, 2011, 10:00-11:30 am PST (1:00-2:30 pm EST) Note: after live webinar date a recording will be available Register today at: https://shop.charretteinstitute.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=WEB5-11 Overview Stephen Coyle’s new book, Sustainable and Resilient Communities, presents a step-by-step action plan for making communities resilient, resourceful, and healthy. This webinar will focus on stormwater (aka rainwater). Presented by Stephen [...]

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