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Regional Resources

Northeast Region Programs for June 1, 2008 through May 30, 2009

This is a list of the programs, events and activities that MU Extension faculty plan to conduct in the Northeast Region between June 1, 2008 and May 30, 2009.  To read a description of any program on the list, select (click on) the program name.  You will be taken to the program description.  If you want to know when a program, event or activity will be conducted, go to the MU Extension Statewide Calendar.  Search for the program by name.  At the Statewide Calendar, you may also search for the program by name only within the Northeast Region.  If the program, activity or event you want to attend is not on the Statewide Calendar, contact your local (county) MU Extension County Program Director for the information.

Building Stronger Nonprofit, Voluntary Organization: A Distance Learning Series Growth Management
Care and Maintenance of On-Lot Sewage Treatment Systems HomeWorks
Community Revitalization and Sustainability Housing Situation Analysis
Considerations for Countryside Living Leadership Development Via Community Action
Experience in Community Enterprise and Leadership (EXCEL)  

 

Resources for Northeast Missouri Communities

Programs for the NE Region - David Hill, Marion County

Building Stronger Nonprofit, Voluntary Organization: A Distance Learning Series - This series provides interactive, informative, and educational approaches to improving the management, leadership, and fund-raising skills of key staff and volunteers.  Sessions for 2004-05 are:  March, Board Development and Effectiveness; April, Program Planning and Evaluation; May, Fund-raising Basics; and June, Successful Grant Proposals.  This is a partnership with the St. Louis Area Nonprofit Services Consortium and the Nonprofit Management and Leadership Center at University of Missouri - St. Louis conducted via the MU Extension TCRC network.  A similar face-to-face series or individual topic sessions for Nonprofit Organization are available on a community level basis.  Community Foundation establishment or utilize existing ones to keep financial resources in the local community as wealth transfers among the generations is offered as well.

Care and Maintenance of On-Lot Sewage Treatment Systems - This workshop teaches how to reduce costs to homeowners, minimize self-contamination of home water supplies plus the surrounding watershed and reduce closing time on homes sales.

Community Revitalization and Sustainability - This is a community participatory process-training program.  Extension specialists work with the community to enable residents to take charge and make decisions about their own communities.  This in turn leads to enhanced community sustainability and improved environmental stewardship in both residential and commercial sections of the community. http://outreach.missouri.edu/edninfo/crs/index.htm

Considerations for Countryside Living - A workshop alerting the potential rural non-farm dweller to some extra duties they will encounter currently provided by the municipality in most incorporated areas and on a limited basis by home-owner associations in some rural settings.

Experience in Community Enterprise and Leadership (EXCEL) - Helps citizens increase their leadership abilities to address community issues and shape their future.  As a community-based process, EXCEL offers a high degree of flexibility, local control and inclusiveness, and focuses on the future of community governance.  http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/commdev/cld/cld.htm

Growth Management - These sessions discuss examples (models) of programs, methods, plans, ordinances, agreements/arrangements of successful growth planning that preserves small town life, countryside living and agricultural lands in Midwestern settings.  We utilize University of Missouri Research Center data plus Confined Agricultural Feeding Operation (CAFO) and Community Water/Sewer issues in case studies and simulations.  Community Toolbox skills introduced include: 1) economic base analysis; 2) retail trade analysis; 3) manufacturing sector bifurcation analysis; 4) local government fiscal revenue analysis; and 5) demographic composition (workforce skills versus employers needs) and change analysis.

HomeWorks - A program for first-time home buyers and other home owners about basic home repairs, maintenance and financial management necessary to successfully maintain a home and your housing investment.  http://extension.missoui.edu/edninfo/homeworks/index.htm

Housing Situation Analysis - This involves identification of specific housing concerns of community residents, public/private partnerships to addressing "affordability" issues, funding available to municipalities and non-profit corporations for housing improvements.  Tax credits for preserving and renovating existing structures and basic maintenance, problem prevention and energy saving workshops.

Leadership Development Via Community Action - This can be a series or a selection of individual sessions on topics such as:  Citizen Participation and Community Decision-Making, the Social Action Process, Inter- and Intra-Group Relations, Effective Committees, Making Meetings Worth One's Time and Community Development Project Orientations.  In the Community Development Project each participant works via a sub-group to identify and address a local issue with support data, potential solutions, implementation strategies and evaluation criteria.

Missouri-wide Community Development Resources

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