Community-driven planning is the antidote to top-down public planning. In fact, community-driven planning can happen and does happen completely absent of local government, which can be vital to building culturally-rooted, liberatory models for building the future. And yet, local government has a critical role to play in ensuring communities have the resources and capacity to implement our solutions. Inevitably building community power involves our capacity to affect local politics, practices, and public resources. If our communities are going to be authentically involved in and directly influence public planning and policy, then we must be organized around a shared vision, priorities, solutions, and approaches to building community power. What role can community-driven planning play in building sufficient power to affect local politics? How can we avoid the traps that working with local government presupposes? In this interactive 2.5-hour workshop we will hear from grassroots organizations who have been able to leverage public resources and affect local policy through the power of community-driven planning, and apply these insights to our own work in place.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Chris Selig
Advisory Board Member and Independent Consultant, PODER
Tere Almaguer
Environmental Justice Organizer, PODER
Dawn Curtis
Consulting Director, Grassroots Impact
Peer Cypher
Workshop 3: Applied Practice Peer Cypher
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2024
Time: 9 - 10:30 am PST / 12 noon - 1:30 pm EST
Description: All those registered for this workshop are invited to a follow-up applied practice peer cypher. This is an online space where folks bring real-time challenges and scenarios they are grappling with to workshop with a small group, applying lessons from the workshop to their actual work. Upon registration to the main workshop, you will receive an invitation to the cypher. No one is required to bring a challenge to workshop. We can learn just as much by participating in workshopping another's challenge!