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Calendar
September 30-November 11, 2008 |
The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development will host the Fall 2008 Training of Component One of the Foundations of Practice Series: Understanding Communities and their Dynamics. This is a distance education program consisting of a series of seven one and one-half hour sessions. For more information and to download a registration form, visit http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/projects/corecomp/component1-fall2008.htm. |
| October 6-7, 2008 | The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development is hosting a North Central Knowledge Network on Immigration and Communities meeting, October 6-7, 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, visit http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/projects\2008NCKNIC\index.htm. |
| October 21, 2008 | Setting the Stage: Sustainability and Sustainable Community Development, the first of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams.For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm |
| October 21-23, 2008 | Helping Small Towns Succeed: Tools for Community Survival, sponsored by the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Billings, Montana. For more information, visit http://www.heartlandcenter.info/index.htm or download the brochure at http://heartlandcenter.info/documents/HSTS08flyer6-12.pdf. |
| October 26-29, 2008 | The Wageningen University and Research Center is hosting an Agriculture in Transition conference, titled Transitions Towards Sustainable Agriculture, Food Chains and Peri-urban Areas, to be held in Wageningen, Netherlands. For more information, visit the conference Web site at http://www.agricultureintransition.eu or download the Conference brochure at http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/temp/TransitieConference071030.pdf |
| November 6-7, 2008 | Entrepreneurship: Where Practice and Theory Meet will be held at the Sheraton City Center Hotel and Suites in St. Louis, Missouri. The conference will highlight the Appalachian regional Commission's 10-Year Entrepreneurship Initiative, the W.K. Kellogg Foundations's Entrepreneurship Development Systems in Rural America Program, and recent community initiatives. For more information, please visit http://mcquinn.missouri.edu. |
| November 13-14, 2008 | The North Central Regional Center will host the Fifth Annual Community Capitals Framework Institute, Appreciating the Past, Defining the Future: The Evaluation of the Community Capitals as a Framework for a Systems Approach to Analyzing Change, in Ames, Iowa. For more information, visit http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/projects/commcap/2008/index.htm. |
| November 18, 2008 | Energy Efficiency, the second of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm |
| November 18-20, 2008 | HomeTown YouthForce: Engaging the Entrepreneurial Generation, developed by the Heartland Center for Leadership Development and the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, will be held at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska. For more information, visit http://www.heartlandcenter.info. |
| November 19, 2008 | Creating Entrepreneurial Communities, sponsored by Michigan State University Extension, will be held at the Lansing Center in Lansing, Michigan. For more information, visit http://www.cecmi.msu.edu. |
| December 7-9, 2008 | The Professional Agricultural Workers Conference (PAWC) is meeting for the 66th session at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. The theme is "Facing Global Crises: Local Solutions to Energy, Food and Persistent Poverty." For more information and to register, visit http://www.pawc.info. |
| December 16, 2008 | Renewable Energy, the third of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm |
| January 20, 2009 | Sustainability and Comprehensive Planning, the fourth of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm |
| February 17, 2009 | Sustainable Business Practices and Strategies, the fifth of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm |
| February 18-20, 2009 | The 2009 JCEP Regional Leadership Meeting for the Western and North Central Regions will be held at the San Diego Marriott Del Mar in San Diego, California. For more information, visit http://www.jcep.org |
| March 17, 2009 | Green Collar Jobs: Sustainable Work in a Low Carbon World, the sixth of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm |
| March 23-27, 2009 | Two courses will be offered at the Community Development Academy at The Elms in Excelsior Springs, Missouri: Course 1: Building Community From the Grassroots and Course 2: Empowering Communities for the Future. For more information, visit http://muconf.missouri.edu or contact Erica Lovercamp at (573) 882-9552 or muconf8@missouri.edu. |
| April 20-22, 2009 | NACDEP 2009, "Creating Sustainable Communities in a Changing America," will be held at the Double Tree Hotel, San Diego Mission Valley, in San Diego, California. For more information, visit http://www.nacdep.net. |
| April 21, 2009 | Local Food Networks: Food Localization as a Sustainability Strategy, the seventh of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm |
| April 27-29, 2009 | The Joint Council of Extension Professionals will host the 2009 Public Issues Leadership Development Conference at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. For more information, visit http://www.jcep.org |
| May 19, 2009 | Sustainability Indicators and Measurements, the eighth of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm |
| June 14-17, 2009 | The National Extension Tourism Conference, NET 2009, will be held at The Yarrow Resort Hotel and Conference Center in Park City, Utah. More information will be available soon on the National Extension Tourism Design Team Web site, http://extensiontourism.net. |
| June 16, 2009 | Community Organizing for Sustainability, the last of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm |
North
Central Regional Center for Rural Development
Iowa State University
107 Curtiss Hall
Ames, IA 50011-1050
(515) 294-8321, (515) 294-3180 fax
For questions, comments or concerns about the NCRCRD website, contact .
Last updated October 3, 2008