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COMMUNITY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For over 25 years, Partners has helped communities improve
their quality of life, or amenities, and has brought about
better living, economic expansion, and social growth to our
client communities. Partners believes that a high quality
of life is the foundation for creating safe neighborhoods,
satisfied residents, and business investment. The Community
Technical Assistance Program offers guidance to communities
on improving their amenities and becoming more livable places.
JUMP START PROGRAMS:
WHAT PARTNERS CAN DO FOR YOU RIGHT NOW
Strategic Planning for Your Community’s
Future – 1 1/2 day Workshop
This workshop, designed for a small leadership group, centers
on defining a vision for your community, fostering civic engagement,
establishing benchmarks to measure progress, and choosing
a stewardship body that will guide implementation of these
goals. The workshop also delineates step-by-step elements
that work and lead to substantial change in the process of
visioning, strategic planning, goal setting, benchmarking,
and regional cooperation.
Consulting on Municipal Strategies
Imagine having Partners’ expertise on call, 5 days a
week. Consulting on Municipal Strategies allows communities
to hire Partners on a year-long retainer to receive consultation
on livability issues as they arise. Examples of Partners’
past involvement with municipalities include designing welfare-to-work
programs and retrofitting suburbs for aging in place. Partners
also engages in shorter-term projects such as writing business
plans, assisting to build public/private partnerships, and
providing leadership training.
Executive Consulting Service (ECS)
Partners’ Executive Consulting Service is a year-long
retainer for business leaders involved in community development.
Partners is on call to our clients to assist with quality
of life issues. Examples of our services for past clients
include consultation on downtown revitalization strategies,
cultural planning, implementing cultural tourism, and improving
the appearance and function of a community’s physical
places.
For more information on services and
the cost, contact Robert McNulty, email bmcnulty@livable.com
or phone, 202/887-5990, ext. 108
NEW PROGRAMS
Leadership and Visioning Training
Creating a leadership group that works together as a team
can be a daunting challenge. Partners lends its extensive
experience in this area to help groups become effective stewards
of their community.
Leadership trainings can be tailored to a group’s unique
needs. Groups may elect to have all or only some of the following
sessions: effective public outreach, meeting management, organizing
the leadership, drafting the vision, and assessing community
assets and opportunities.
Livability Consulting for Smaller Communities
For over 25 years, Partners has built a national reputation
by helping communities develop their livability, or quality
of life assets. Partners historically has worked with mid-size
cities. However, Partners’ special brand of community
planning is applicable and adaptable to the needs of smaller
cities as well. Partners has worked in smaller communities
as diverse as Marquette, Michigan; Salisbury, Maryland; Hobbs,
New Mexico; and Emporia, Virginia, each time reinvigorating
local life and economy. If you are a community with a population
of 5,000-75,000, contact Partners on how Livability Consulting
can start improving quality of life where you are.
Culture Builds Communities: Putting Culture
to Work for Community and Economic Development
Partners’ Culture Builds Communities strategy uses a
community’s cultural resources to stimulate youth development,
economic development, social development, and community design.
In a four-day residency session, Partners will assess your
community’s current uses of culture as they relate to
people, place, jobs, finance, leadership, and "branding"
for your region. The assessment panel will be composed of
seven to nine professionals who will evaluate opportunities
taken and not yet realized. The panel will then develop a
strategic plan based on culture as a source to strengthen
your community. Participants in the program will also receive
a timeline for implementing the recommendations. Partners’
past clients include civil rights groups, youth mentoring
organizations, and urban designers.
A Community Checkup: A Comprehensive
Strategic Review of Your Community
Partners can undertake a strategic review of the overall livability,
quality of life, and economic development of your community.
The review can be narrowed to a topic(s) such as regional
cooperation, sustainable development, the creative economy,
downtown neighborhoods, and transportation. The review is
a four-day process, and the fee includes Partners’ expenses,
strategic analysis, and the work of a team of consultant professionals.
For more information on services and the cost, contact Robert
McNulty, email bmcnulty@livable.com or phone, 202/887-5990,
ext. 108
OUR HANDS-ON HELP
A Charette on Your Community’s Future
A charette is a 2-3 day workshop that brings in Partners’
consultants to focus solely on one community issue. Participants
consider the problem with Partners’ guidance, and the
charrette concludes with setting goals for solving the issue.
Communities may request a charette on any number of issues
including enhancing their physical design, planning a city
gateway, devising a marketing strategy, or assessing their
livability.
Public Speech Services
Partners can make a presentation to your chamber of commerce,
city council, or economic development agency on the importance
of a community-wide vision process or amenities strategy.
The session includes a video/film of successes in other communities.
These sessions can be tailored to meet a group’s individual
needs.
Brainstorming Sessions
Partners’ staff and consultants meet with community stakeholders
to provide ideas and the impetus to get a community going
on specific issues. This pragmatic approach presents innovative
ideas and best practices to tackle problems and recommend
next steps.
Download Partners Technical Assistance Consulting Brochure here>>>>
For more information on services and the cost, contact Robert
McNulty, email bmcnulty@livable.com or phone, 202/887-5990,
ext. 108
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