1999 NAPC National Conference
(Dallas, April 22-25)
Special thanks to all of the 1999 conference speakers who gave generously of their valuable time and expertise to make this year's conference so worthwhile.
NAPC sincerely appreciates conference chair Martha Blaine and the staff of the Community Council of Greater Dallas for hosting last year's conference. Everyone enjoyed their warm Dallas hospitality -- and a beautifully-run event.
THEME:
"Community Building for the New
Millennium"
… preparing for relevant community leadership
in the next century
Everyone enjoyed the warm Dallas hospitality and
Le Meridien, the beautiful conference hotel.
Below:
Members of the NAPC Board of
Directors
greeted conference participants, members and guests
at the opening banquet.
Seated: Paul Gilmer (Community Council of Kanawha Valley, Charleston, WV); Elaine Andersen, NAPC President (Human Services Council of Mid-Fairfield, CT); Mary Louis Campbell, NAPC Secretary & Membership Chair (The Planning Council, Norfolk, VA); David Swain, NAPC Treasurer (Jacksonville Community Council, Inc., Jacksonville, FL). Standing: Boyce Brawley (Metropolitan Counci of Community Services, Chattanooga, TN); Martha Blaine, NAPC Vice President & Conference Chair (Community Council of Greater Dallas, TX); and past Presidents Nancy Findeisen (Community Services Planning Council, Sacramento, CA) and Phil Dessauer (Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa, OK). Incoming Board members for 1999-2000 not pictured are John Begala (Cleveland, OH), Jacqueline Jones (Detroit, MI), Chris Pollett (Houston, TX) and Pete Stoddard (Clarkesville, TN).
Below: Conference Chair
Martha Blaine (right) opened the conference.
Peter Michel (center), President of the Community Council of Greater
Dallas, and
Ed McDunn, President of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas,
welcomed everyone to Dallas.
Parkland Hospital's President/CEO was introduced by Martha Blaine (below), who kicked off Friday's conference presentations with a discussion of highlights of "Trends 2000," Celente's thought-provoking book.
Staff of the Community Council of Greater
Dallas
did a wonderful job coordinating conference logistics!
Pictured below are Deb Wood, Dan Alaniz, Sarah Fallis, Vicki White and Elsa Cantu.
Dan Alaniz was also a conference speaker, sharing his expertise on preparing computer systems for Y2K, and describing innovative ways the Community Council is now using its website.
Everyone enjoyed greeting colleagues from across the country at the opening reception and banquet!
Below - Joseph Lapilio III, new Executive Director of the Hawai'i Community Services Council in Honolulu, and NAPC President Elaine Andersen.
Below - Ione Farrar (Chattanooga, TN), Karen Wulfkuhle (Overland Park, KS), Louise Stalzer (Long Island, NY) and Mary Louis Campbell (Roanoke, VA).
Below - new members Doreen Marvin and, on the far right, Alejandro Melendez-Cooper (LEARN, Old Lyme, CT), with Ken Slenkovich and new Executive Director John Begala from the Federation for Community Planning in Cleveland, Ohio. The Federation will be hosting NAPC's next conference, in April 2000! In his conference presentation, Ken described how the Federation has recently redefined its role and scope, bringing renewed energy and effectiveness to the organization's work. …
Below - Jim Olson (Topeka, KS) and Roy Underwood (NAPC's volunteer website consultant, Dallas).
Below - Elaine Andersen (Norwalk, CT), NAPC administrator Sharon Clark (Dallas, TX) and Roy Underwood (Dallas), enjoying dinner with (clockwise) Phil Dessauer (Tulsa, OK), David Swain (Jacksonville, FL) and Nancy Findeisen (Sacramento, CA).
Below - from the Metropolitan Council in Chattanooga, TN, Ione Farrar, Steve White and Boyce Brawley.
At the NAPC ANNUAL MEETING ...
NAPC President Elaine Andersen (in white suit, below) presented
NAPC's Distinguished Service Award to Nancy Findeisen
(in red, below); she was congratulated by Martha Blaine (in blue, below), Jacqueline Jones (below right - applauding) and all their NAPC colleagues and friends.
NAPC President Elaine Andersen
recognized and thanked long-time NAPC colleague and Board member
Boyce Brawley, who will retire this summer
as Executive Director
of the Metropolitan Council in Chattanooga.
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS ...
Friday's Luncheon Keynote Speaker was Judge
John Creuzot,
Presiding Judge of Dallas' DIVERT Court Program;
he explained the success of this Dallas initiative to place people
in treatment rather than jail after substance abuse-related arrests.
Conference speakers included Phil Dessauer (Community Service Council, Tulsa, OK), on the increasing magnitude and changing face of poverty, and Cheryl Chambers (U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C.), on The American Community Survey - below.
Norman Moorehead (Community Council of Greater Dallas' Director of the Dallas Area Agency on Aging) told of America's growing population of older people and the need to help people plan for all aspects of life after retirement. Venus Burgess (Substance Abuse Coalition - Human Services Council, Norwalk, CT) described a successful initiative to prevent youth substance abuse - below.
Neighborhood community building initiatives were the focus of presentations by David Swain, internationally-known as an expert on indicators - below …
… and David Hoffman, from the Community Building Institute in San Diego - below.
Steve White, from the Metropolitan Council in Chattanooga, TN, shared insights about the Community Impact Fund planning and implementation process.
HUD's expanding roles in community building were explained by HUD Community Builder, Melodie Shatzer of Dallas.
NAPC Board members Nancy Findeisen (Sacramento, CA), Mary Louis Campbell (Norfolk, VA) and Elaine Andersen (Norwalk, CT) enjoyed learning about other councils' work by gathering materials from the conference resource tables.
On Friday night,
Keynote Speaker Curtis Meadows, of Dallas' Meadows
Foundation,
described "The Future of Responsible Philanthropy" …
… to a very responsive audience, at a Tex-Mex buffet dinner
hosted by the Community Council of Greater Dallas (below).
Among those enjoying the Friday dinner meeting were new NAPC members Joseph Lapilio III (Honolulu, HI) and Louise Stalzer (Long Island, NY) (below) ...
… as well as Dan Arthrell (Tulsa, OK) and David Swain (Jacksonville, FL) (below) ...
... Eric McDonnell (San Francisco, CA), Nancy Findeisen (Sacramento, CA) and Alejandro Melendez-Cooper (New London, CT) (below) ...
… and Karen Wulfkuhle (Overland Park, KS), Louise
Stalzer (Long Island, NY),
Stephanie Ross (Norwalk, CT) and Venus Burgess (Norwalk,
CT) (below).
On Saturday,
Breakfast Roundtable sessions were enjoyed by Karen Wulfkuhle (Overland Park, KS), Stephanie Ross (Norwalk, CT), Bob Spinks (Oklahoma City, OK) and David Swain (Jacksonville, FL) - below.
Later, Bob Spinks gave the conference's closing presentation about how the role and work of the Community Council of Central Oklahoma have evolved, especially since the Oklahoma City bombing disaster.
First-time NAPC conference participants H. Browning Spence (Pinellas Park, FL), Judith Rothbaum and Joanne Horn (Oklahoma City, OK) met for a Breakfast Roundtable discussion.
NAPC Board members David Swain (Jacksonville, FL) and Nancy Findeisen (Sacramento, CA) welcomed Bill Bivens, from the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, D.C., who shared valuable information about the upcoming Year 2000 decennial census.
Denise Harlow (right; Community Council of New York State, Albany, NY) greeted Stephanie Ross (Human Services Council, Norwalk, CT), who gave a conference presentation about the innovative work of Norwalk's initiative addressing homelessness.
Prof. Ralph Cousins, Director of the Nonprofit MBA Program at the University of Dallas' Graduate School of Management, made a very interesting presentation about characteristics of nonprofit managers, based on his recent study. Afterward he discussed findings with colleague Marilyn Self, newly-appointed Assistant Director of the Community Council of Greater Dallas.
Julie Thomas, Executive Director of Dallas' Volunteer Center, provided useful information about current trends in volunteerism and implications for nonprofit organizations and communities.
Karen Walz, Executive Director of The Dallas Plan, outlined this model which is of great interest to planners in other communities across the country.
Paul Gilmer, Executive Director of the Community Council of Kanawha Valley in Charleston, WV, stimulated participants' thinking with his presentation about effective boards of directors.
Tools and tips for using Geographic Information Systems in health and human services planning were demonstrated by Leanne Gilley (Geo/Info, Inc., Tyler, TX) and Jim Olson (Community Resources Council, Topeka, KS).
Other CONFERENCE PRESENTATION TOPICS not yet mentioned or pictured included:
Alliances and mergers in the nonprofit sector (Ron Aldridge, Community Council of Greater Dallas, TX)
Outcomes Toolkit (Nancy Findeisen, Community Services Planning Council, Sacramento, CA)
Coalition building (Jacqueline Jones, United Way Community Services, Detroit, MI)
Using the Internet (Sharon Clark, NAPC administrator and website manager, Dallas, TX)
Neighborhood-building to prevent youth crime (Anthony Burns, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Gang Crime Prevention Center, Chicago, IL)
The conference closed with a fun-filled Saturday evening celebration:
Sonny Bryan's Barbecue Dinner & Dallas West End Party!
Joining conference participants were long-time NAPC colleagues and friends, Russ and Grace Delatour. Retired Executive Director of the Community Council of Greater Dallas, Mr. Delatour was a founding member and past President of NAPC. Travels, grandchildren and many community and church activities now keep the Delatours' lives very full.
On behalf of NAPC, Elaine Andersen, President (right) thanked Martha Blaine (left) for a job VERY well done as 1999 Conference Chair!
On Sunday morning ...
Incoming Board members met over breakfast to celebrate the success of the conference … and to begin planning for next year's conference (in Cleveland, the first week in April). (Clockwise around the table: Elaine Andersen, Mary Louis Campbell, Phil Dessauer, Paul Gilmer
, Martha Blaine, Nancy Findeisen, Sharon Clark and David Swain.
On behalf of the National Association of Planning Councils,
THANK YOU
to all the conference speakers, planners and participants
for making this a valuable and unforgettable conference!
We'll see everyone again
at next year's
NATIONAL CONFERENCE!
Information and photos -- past
conferences:
2003,
2002,
2001,
2000,
1999,
1998
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