Washington, DC Training Institute
Mobile Courses

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

ED180 Communtiy Economic Development: A Mobile Workshop
Join us for a first-hand look at our NTI host city and region in this mobile workshop designed to give you an understanding of innovative strategies that foster vibrant local economies. We'll tour the city by bus and on foot as we learn from local community development organizations and business owners about how they have catalyzed economic development and strengthened locally owned independent businesses. This course will look at the role of local government and community based organizations in creating commerce and cultivating economic opportunity. Specifically, the course will examine the role of public markets in connecting community and commerce. Participants will hear from the Founder and Director of the Fenton Street Market in Silver Spring, MD and learn about a new type of corporation, the B Corp, which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. The workshop will be led by the Executive Director of the Latino Economic Development Corporation, a community-based nonprofit with 20 years of experience equipping Latinos and others in the DC metro area with the skills and financial tools they need to build a better life for themselves, their families, and their community. During the workshop participants will have the opportunity to explore and discuss a wide range of opportunities and challenges for developing your local economy.

CB180 Community Engagement: A Mobile Workshop
To supplement your classroom learning in community development, join us for an in-depth look at community development in action, with our NTI host city as the model. Come spend the day "on the road" - in a mobile workshop - interacting with residents, city representatives, policy makers, business leaders and others key to the community engagement process. You'll come back with a deeper understanding of how this city works, how things get done, and with concrete, replicable and adaptable 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.

NR180 Neighborhood Revitalization: A Mobile Workshop
Join us for a first-hand look at our NTI host city and its neighborhoods in this mobile workshop designed to give you an understanding of the historical development of the city's neighborhoods as well as current issues and community development strategies. We'll tour the city by bus and on foot as we learn from local experts of every stripe about key factors in the city's growth and development, about the patterns of neighborhood settlement and about the challenges and victories neighbors have experienced as they work to cultivate and preserve livable communities for all.

CP249 Green in Action
For affordable housing practitioners who are ready to implement green and healthy housing methods and materials, here is an exciting one-day field-based experience you can't miss. After brief introductions in the classroom we will spend the day "on tour" visiting local outstanding sites that showcase green building in action. Tour sites highlight affordable housing, green economic development and cutting-edge materials and methods. Learn about specific successful approaches to greening affordable housing development from several angles. Understand a hierarchy of materials and methods to help you organize your green approach. Get an up-close look at uses of the latest materials and methods. This one-day session is designed for Rehab Specialists, Single Family Housing Developers, Project Managers and other nonprofit staff designing and managing green and healthy affordable housing.

 

 

 

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