Instructor Name: Ron Dwyer-Voss
 

Ron Dwyer-Voss is the owner and founder of Pacific Community Solutions, Inc., a training, consulting and technical assistance company focused on working with community-based initiatives, nonprofit organizations and local governments. His work focuses on asset-based community development and organizing, community engagement and mobilization, education, participatory evaluation and community health. Dwyer-Voss has been a community organizer, community development corporation director, leadership development coach and trainer, as well as an elected school board member.

Dwyer-Voss began working with the Asset-Based Community Development model while organizing on the south and west sides of Chicago. Since then he has worked with faith-based communities; African-American, Latino and Southeast Asian communities; and a mix of urban and rural communities. He also works with youth development coalitions and education-focused organizations. Dwyer-Voss is the past chairperson of the National Community Building and Organizing Initiative of NeighborWorks America, and has provided training in community building and organizing at NeighborWorks Training Institutes around the country. He has trained school board members and administrators on how to more effectively engage their communities in local schools, as well as how to mobilize their communities to advocacy. When he is not working, Dwyer-Voss loves time with his family, travel, sports, live music, and exploring the outdoors kayaking, snowboarding, hiking, and fishing on whatever boat is available.

He began working with the Asset-Based Community Development model while organizing on the south and west sides of Chicago. Since then he has worked with faith-based communities; African-American, Latino and Southeast Asian communities; and a mix of urban and rural communities. He also works with youth development coalitions and education-focused organizations. Dwyer-Voss is the past chairperson of the National Community Building and Organizing Initiative of NeighborWorks America, and has provided training in community building and organizing at NeighborWorks Training Institutes around the country. He has trained school board members and administrators on how to more effectively engage their communities in local schools, as well as how to mobilize their communities to advocacy. When he is not working Ron loves time with his family, travel, sports, live music, and exploring the outdoors kayaking, snowboarding, hiking, and fishing on whatever boat is available.

Ron Dwyer-Voss teaches the following course(s):
CB120 Building Communities From the Inside Out
CB340 Civic Engagement : Accountability and Responsibility
CB200 Community Engagement: Measuring its Impact
CB704 Community Organizer's Forum
CL525 Food for the Soul!
NR720 Forum & Mobile Workshop: Connecting Local Governments to Community
CB720 Forum & Mobile Workshop: Maximizing the Power of Volunteers and Service
CL113 Getting—and Keeping—People Involved (in Small Towns and Rural Areas)
CL526 How Popular Culture Sees Our Issues (clips from Crash, The Visitor, Gran Torino, the Wire, and more)
CL130 How To Create a Community Group
CL163 Making Meetings Work
NR121 Measuring the Impacts of Your Revitalization Work
CB160 Organizing and Services: Balancing Both for Stronger Communities
CL115 Organizing Volunteers for Maximum Impact
CB225 Pathways to Self-Reliant Communities: Building on Our Assets