SRPLN 2008 CD Accomplishment Report
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SRPLN Community Development Committee 2008 Accomplishment Report
Committees are asked to answer these three questions by September 15, 2008. Be brief. The goal is to limit the report to one page.
1. What has your committee accomplished together in the last year as a result of PLN?
- Business Retention and Expansion training was held in Clemson, SC in January 2008. Training was also held in Galveston, TX in July 2008. A total of 51 individuals were trained (28 Extension).
- Proposal was submitted to Kettering Foundation to support regional training on public deliberation.
- An e-Commerce webinar series has been developed for launching Fall 2008.
- Information on distressed and low-wealth communities across the US was incorporated into the SRDC web site as a resource for practitioners.
- SRDC roundtables were held in 2006 and results were used extensively by PLN members to develop strategic plans for their community development programming.
- Discussions with EDEN at PLN led to a multi-state effort to sucessfully secure Smith-Lever funding focused on community-level disaster preparedness and recovery.
2. What has your committee accomplished together that it could not have accomplished without PLN?
The Community Development Extension community is relatively small and PLN is attended by a significant majority of the specialists in the area. As such, all of the accomplishments listed above (#1) are truly a result of our collaboration during the face to face PLN meeting.
3. Please give a few examples of specific benefits to individual states.
- All twenty eight states who participated in the national e-Commerce training, led by SRDC, reported establishing e-commerce networks in their state.
- SRDC state roundtables have been the foundation upon which many of our states based their strategic planning for their individual community development programs. Key examples include -
- Tennessee developed the Sustainable Tennessee program - Alabama changed programming to emphasize leadership, led to adding staff and development of a statewide network of community development programs. - Lousiana, Arkansas, South Carolina and Kentucky adopted e-commerce curriculum for statewide deployment
