Broaden your horizons and brighten your future at the Phoenix Training Institute. Join your peers and field experts at the May 2010 NeighborWorks training institute in Phoenix, AZ, for over 90 courses in community development and affordable housing. Whether working towards one of NeighborWorks' professional certifications or expanding your skills or networking with colleagues, the Phoenix training institute will awaken your spirit and equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to make a difference.
Phoenix will feature a special symposium on emerging themes and effective practices for integrating volunteers into the life of community development organizations. Volunteerism +
Community Development: Building Local Capacity, Sustaining Neighborhood
Revitalization will focus on volunteerism as capacity-building to drive revitalization and the creation of equitable, diverse and sustainable communities. Join your peers and national experts to examine the conceptual framework and practical tools to engage volunteers in powerful new ways.
At the Phoenix training institute, you will be able to choose from almost 50 newly released or updated courses — NeighborWorks continues to keep you on the cutting edge! Our objective is to provide you with the continuing education you need
to achieve your objectives and enhance your career. We’re confident that
participation at our institute in Phoenix will be an excellent investment,
and we look forward to seeing you there! |
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Phoenix offers exciting opportunities for you and your staff:
Check out three great courses to enhance your Symposium experience:
CB103 Building Powerful Community Partnerships, Collaborations and Coalitions
Building communities takes work on the part of all parties
in an atmosphere of trust, cooperation and respect. Building
partnerships is one of the most effective ways to bring about
lasting change. Find out about community-wide collaborations
that bring all sectors of the public and private community
together. Learn techniques that really work for sharing
resources, managing information, developing human capital and
facilitating community empowerment. Identify ways to reconcile
conflict, create win-win collaborative relationships and develop
comprehensive strategies for soliciting partnership opportunities
in your community.
ML275 Make the Most of Your Organization's Resources
Does your organization’s plan include strategies to leverage
the expertise of board members, staff and volunteers? Do you
tap into diverse sources of money through fundraising and
proposals? How would you describe the overall image of your
organization in the community? This course, intended for organizational
decision-makers such as senior managers and board
members, will help assess your current use of people, money
and image in the community, and will provide new strategies to
make the most of your organization’s resources.
NR104 Getting Things Done in Neighborhoods through Strategic Collaborations
In today’s world, resources “time, energy and money” are carefully
allocated. Revitalization collaborations that combine effective
strategy with efficient use of resources will be the most successful.
Creating partnerships also helps ensure that revitalization will be
sustained in the long run. Learn how to cultivate long-term relationships
that help you continue to create win-win opportunities
for neighborhood collaborations. Participants will analyze why
some partnerships succeed and some fail, and what each sector
can bring to the table that others cannot. This course explores
how thinking “out of the box” can create maximum rewards for
all as you implement your revitalization strategy.
Many new and updated courses will be featured in Phoenix:
In order for tenants to be successful in supportive
housing, careful attention must be paid
to service planning and delivery. This session
will cover supportive services, how to coordinate
those services with property management,
and how to select and screen tenants for
supportive housing. The nationally recognized
Dimensions of Quality for Supportive Housing
will also be overviewed.
This course will enable
participants to identify opportunities to introduce
health/energy/water benefits into routine building
maintenance and capital improvement processes.
Learn to evaluate project specific
data to set priorities for energy, water and resident
health improvements; use integrated planning tools to
prioritize improvements; and implement a green and
healthy property management plan that will reduce
energy and water use and improve resident health
conditions.
Leading our communities through these tough, difficult
times requires innovative, resilient community
leadership. Many communities, organizations and
leaders find themselves challenged to meet today’s
social, economic, and political, realities. This course will provide the
rare opportunity for participants to gain practical insight to more effectively
and efficiently lead their communities.
This intermediate level course integrates theoretical
premises and practical techniques of small business
development, commercial development, commercial
district revitalization, and data-driven analysis.
It aims to give you a broad understanding and
flexible tools that you can apply to your unique
situation to achieve the highest impact with your
finite resources.
This course is a guide to engaging stakeholders
and using innovative methods to create built and
natural environments in neighborhoods that are
magnets for people to live, work and socialize. Bring
your “place-making” challenges to this course and
through a site visit and hands-on activities using
green concepts and other place-making tools and
techniques, learn how to create people-friendly,
livable environments.
This course will equip housing rehabilitation,
construction and development program staff with
the skills needed to conduct a thorough, effective
and efficient inspection of a home. Attend this course and
walk away with the essential skills and knowledge
to conduct one of the most critical skills needed by
any rehab/construction specialist.
In today’s real estate market borrowers who are
interested in purchasing a home will likely consider
the growing inventory of Real Estate Owned (REO)
property. Come learn who is selling these properties, how to assist your clients with the sales contract, how to avoid pitfalls, when to recognize the need for special financing and the new details of the HUD Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
This course, intended
for organizational decision-makers such as senior
managers and board members, will help assess
your current use of people, money and image in the
community, and will provide new strategies to make
the most of your organization’s resources.
This three-day course provides rural
practitioners with the tools and knowledge to prescreen
new homeowners, calculate subsidies and
apply payment assistance formulas. Participants
will gain a working proficiency of 502 direct underwriting
and loan packaging standards ensuring
that loan dockets submitted to Rural Development
are complete and acceptable for processing.
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SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS |
| Scholarships available for HUD-Approved housing counseling agencies to attend Homeownership and Community Lending courses. Find out more at www.nw.org/scholarships. |
| Apply for National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (NFMC) training scholarships. To learn more about scholarship opportunities, visit www.nw.org/nfmc. |
