Co-hosted by Alliance member Family & Children’s Service, Minneapolis, the Civic Engagement Training Institute was offered by the Alliance for Children and Families as part of the New Voices at the Civic Table program. The institute was underwritten by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
2007 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TRAINING INSTITUTE
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The Alliance for Children and Families, with Alliance and UNCA member Family and Children's Service, held its first Civic Engagement Training Institute, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Twenty participants from around the country and the Twin Cities convened for a two-and-a-half-day training experience to learn new civic engagement strategies, visit with constituent-led community action groups, and network with colleagues committed to expanding civic engagement.

The Institute is designed to:

• provide training and learning opportunities in civic engagement for nonprofit human service agency staff;

• identify specific skills required to increase staff involvement and success in civic engagement activities, especially with populations that have less access to decision makers; and

• explore pathways to develop organizational capacity to carry out civic engagement activities.

Participants returned from the Institute "energized" and "ready to get back to work" supporting the civic engagement activities of their organizations and communities.

Based on its first year success, we hope to repeat the Institute for a larger audience next year.

Review Materials & Other Information Below:   [top]

• Agenda
   

• Presentations (PowerPoint)

  • Model Strategies

  • Civic Engagement

  • Measuring Impacts
     

• Materials/Handouts

  • Nonprofits and Democracy: Engage, Educate, Activate, and Assess
    - by Frances Kunreuther - SPARC Change, Winter 2004

  • Cultural Competency session by Jennifer Blevins:
    handout 1 / handout 2 / handout 3 / handout 4

  • Models and Strategies session: handouts from Linda Campbell

  • Models and Strategies session: Examples from the Field handouts from Laurie Lindblad

  • Measuring Impact session: handouts from John Till

  • Brainstorming Sessions:
    - What comes to mind when you hear the words CIVIC ENGAGEMENT?
    - Civic Engagement: Theory of change.
    - Civic Engagement: What did you see?
    - Who needs to be involved?
     

• Photo Gallery
   

• Participant Evaluation of the Institute

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Questions about the Civic Engagement Training Institute can be directed to:

• Linda Nguyen, Director, Civic Engagement - email: Lnguyen@alliance1.org
  (202) 429-0400 ext. 25 or (800) 220-1016 ext 25