Enabling Your Vision
WORKSHOP TITLE
Enabling Your Vision: Collaborations to expand capacity and enable long-term systematic change
DESCRIPTION
In a time of uncertainty and fiscal restraint, unprecedented collaboration will be necessary to enable long term, visionary change to address the most pressing issues in our communities. Successful partnerships between existing community organizations, public agencies and governments, private corporations, educational institutions, and foundations can help communities tap into existing resources and leverage funding to maximize their impact. This session will explore strategies to support the growth and sustainability of community efforts.
WORKSHOP PRESENTERS
Sam Magavern, Partnership for the Public Good. Sam Magavern teaches in the clinical program at the University at Buffalo Law School, specializing in affordable housing, community economic development, and public policy. He has helped initiate several collaborations in Buffalo, including Partnership for the Public Good, a progressive think tank, and the Western New York Apollo Alliance, a labor-environmental-business coalition promoting the green economy.
Derek Bateman, Buffalo Cooperative Federal Credit Union. Derek Bateman has been a co-op, community and credit union organizer since the late 1970s. He has served as Executive Director to a variety of community based organizations involved in the issues of: housing, neighborhood revitalization, community based economic development, energy conservation, crime prevention, energy deregulation and community wind power. He has helped found: Buffalo Cooperative Community Federal Credit Union, Parkside Federal Credit Union, Hamlin Park Construction, and Lake Effect Energy, LLC. He currently teaches Social Science at Erie Community College City Campus.
TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
- Developing strong partnerships.
- Understanding the role of local foundations.
- Collaboration in local planning initiatives.
- Avoiding duplication of services.
- Encouraging innovation and strategic implementation.
