Atlanta Training Institute
Courses with Site Visits

These courses incorporate local awareness and real-life case studies to bring your community development learning to life.

CB180 Community Engagement: A Mobile Workshop
To supplement your classroom learning in community development, join us for an in-depth look at community engagement in action, with our NTI host city as the model. Come spend the day on the road, interacting with residents, neighborhood leaders, city representatives, policy makers, business leaders and others key to the community engagement process. You'll have the opportunity to select among different tour options designed to be of high relevance to your work, and will return with replicable and adaptable community development examples you can use in your own city. You will experience not only what works in this city's community building, community organizing and community leadership culture, but also have the opportunity to interact with some of the people who have been critical change agents.

ED101 Community Economic Development Principles, Practices and Strategies
Look at the theoretical base and practical applications of community economic development and learn to define it. Understand the goals, guiding principles, and measures of success; examine costs versus benefits of projects; and understand the multiplier effect, capital leakage, and the difference between basic and non-basic industries. Find out what is involved in making distinctions among strategies aimed at affecting the supply versus demand for labor, and how to make informed choices about the use of tools such as business incubators, loan funds, targeted real estate projects, and job training programs. Includes case studies, lectures, and a site visit to a local economic development project. First required course to obtain a professional certificate in Community Economic Development.

ED220 Community Economic Development Principles, Practices and Strategies
Special Topic for February 2013: Using Cooperatives as a Tool for Community Wealth Creation. Cooperatives can be a wealth-creating tool in the community economic development tool box. However, the constitution and various configurations of cooperative enterprise are not taught in most business development programs. This course is designed to introduce the CED practitioner to the cooperative development landscape so that cooperatives can be added to local development strategies and CED practitioners will have the resources they need to assist in the development of successful cooperatives within various communities.

NR117 Environmental Sustainability in Neighborhood Revitalization
Sustainable communities are not isolated Edens but integrated regions that meet housing, employment, transportation and other needs in ways that limit negative environmental impacts while strengthening the regional economy and building social equity. Urban, suburban and rural communities can all implement environmentally sustainable strategies to advance their revitalization and growth objectives. Through case studies and practical exercises, you will learn tools to advance sustainable development at the regional and neighborhood level, and measure your progress towards achieving sustainability goals. You will also learn about the most recent policy developments, like the HUD-DOT-EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities, and new models guiding sustainable development work, such as the ICLEI Star Community Index.

NR124 Reading a Neighborhood: What a Walk around the Block Can Tell You
Learn how to quickly analyze what’s going on in a neighborhood during a block walk. What can the housing stock and businesses tell you? The people on the street and the streetscape itself? Hone your observation skills and take home a system to analyze what you see and how your assumptions can color your observations. This course includes a site visit where participants take part in a block walk, perform an analysis and discuss their findings in terms of neighborhood revitalization. Participants will come away with a practical how-to guide for conducting a block walk in their own communities.

NR275 Marketing Strategies to Support Your Neighborhood Revitalization Work
Having difficulty selling REOs and other properties in your inventory? When people buy a house, they buy a neighborhood, too. A positive neighborhood image is defined intentionally and cultivated through sound strategies to reassure existing residents and to attract new home-buyers and responsible investors. What image and marketing approach best fits your neighborhood? Who can be your partners and how can you recruit them to the marketing effort? In this course you will learn marketing approaches for internal and external audiences and how to attract residents, other nonprofits, realtors and local government to the marketing effort. Please bring your neighborhood marketing challenges to the class.

 

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