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Ed Morrison · Exploring Innovation in Community Development conference
March 27th, 2009
From Matt Ashby, at the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis:
Here’s the agenda for the Exploring Innovation in Community Development conference. Please consider attending or forwarding the information to your associates. The website is: www.exploringinnovation.org
It’s an aggressive blend of policy discussions and practical work solutions that deliver real results that add value. Also, probably an unequaled gathering of national community development thought leaders in the midwest. We also try to change-up the typical conference format quite a bit too.
The conference will promote innovation among and between individuals, organizations and communities as critical to creating effective responses to current economic challenges.
The 2007 conference attracted participants from 23 states and Canada. It introduced innovation conceptually to the community development field. The 2009 conference will focus on an innovation platform and behaviors that sustain innovation in the community or organization.
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March 30th, 2009 at 3:10 am
Ed, don’t you think that communities need to stop relying on the federal government for the revenue we use to prop up CDCs and similar programs? I am thinking especially in terms of HUD funding.
March 30th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Sadly, in many cities, federal funding has created a bloated “social overhead”.
With HUD, the problem focuses on CDCs. With the Department of Commerce (EDA), the problem comes with economic development districts. With Department of Labor (ETA), the problem concentrates in our workforce investment boards and their training providers.
Federal funding too often fuels local patronage networks.
March 30th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I think that the bloated social overhead creates self-sustaining funding by planned abandonment. The city council redistricting will drive more middle class voters out of the city, which I can’t prove is the intentional outcome, but it sure seems like it.
March 30th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Thanks for describing the federal factor in this mess. We can’t solve a problem until we acknowledge that it exists.