The NeighborWorks® Training Institute, widely recognized as the source of premier community development training, provides participants with an opportunity to build skills, network with colleagues and share ideas for taking their community development work to the next level. The Rocky Mountain District office of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation is proud to bring the NeighborWorks Training Institute to Denver.

The theme for this special Institute — Diverse Cultures, Common Needs — captures the realities of the region. Although culturally diverse, the specific needs of the people in this region are not very different. Improving communities and the quality of housing, expanding economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income people and strengthening underserved communities and populations are the goals of organizations working in urban, rural, Hispanic, Native American, colonias, and other communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region.

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Registration form, which includes hotel information. (Registration deadline: January 18, 2005) [PDF, 148KB]

Registration form for representatives from HUD Public Housing Agencies [PDF, 150 KB]

What Should I Expect at the Regional Training Institute?

Exciting guest speakers include Henry Cisneros, chairman and CEO of American CityVista, at the opening luncheon on February 7 and Opalanga Pugh, award-winning storyteller, at the closing breakfast on February 11.

A week of interactive, practical and cutting edge courses will address some of the most timely and critical issues faced by the Rocky Mountain region in the fields of community revitalization, affordable housing, community economic development, and nonprofit leadership and management. One goal of the Institute is to enhance the effectiveness and continued growth of both novice and experienced community development practitioners through courses geared to a region's unique needs. The classes will include some typically offered through national NeighborWorks® Training Institutes, as well as new courses that will address issues specifically related to community development and affordable housing in this region (e.g., the Native American Community Development Training Program or Rural Development). We are also pleased to offer an expanded range of homeownership and community lending courses through the NeighborWorks® Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling (NCHEC).

A symposium — Transforming Your Organization and Community to Thrive in 2010: Understanding Trends, Challenges and Opportunities [PDF, 572K] — is featured for practitioners and their partners. The coming decade will bring unprecedented opportunities and challenges; the Rocky Mountain region will need to develop a coherent and strategic response to economic, housing, and social trends. The symposium will feature important national and regional thought leaders, such as Gov. Edward Gramlich, Federal Reserve Board; Dan Kemmis, University of Montana’s Center for the Rocky Mountain West, Mark Drabenstott, Center for the Study of Rural America; Sheila Maith, Fannie Mae Foundation; Patricia Nelson Limerick, Center of the American West; and other prominent presenters. Participants will have the opportunity to consider what nonprofit organizations, public and private sectors, and communities can be -- and should be -- doing now to prepare for the future.

More than 600 people are expected to attend this Training Institute, including community development practitioners, leaders from communities, state and local government, and private sector partners. We look forward to bringing this group together in Denver, and are eager for you to join us and share your insights and experience.

Our Sponsors

We would like to especially thank our sponsors [PDF, 142 KB] for supporting us in giving participants from the Rocky Mountain States and Texas the opportunity to build skills, network with colleagues and share ideas for taking their community development work to the next level.