Looking back ...
The 2002 National Association of Planning Councils
National
Conference was great!
NAPC truly appreciates the conference
planners, speakers, and participants for helping to create an outstanding
experience filled with learning and new possibilities.
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2002
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PLANNING COUNCILS
2002 National Conference
May 2-4, 2002 - Washington, D.C.
Hilton Washington Embassy Row Hotel
Changing realities and roles ... leadership for community
progress
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Introduction
Schedule
overview Featured topics
Featured national speakers
Resource fair
Join NAPC
NAPC and
planning councils Hotel
Thank
you's
Detailed conference agenda
Registration
form For more information
Hello! Please join us in Washington, D.C. in May for the 2002 national
conference of the National Association of Plannng Councils (NAPC). If you are
leading,
participating in, researching, teaching about, studying, or simply interested in
effective community-based planning and
mobilization to address human service and health needs, then this conference
-- and NAPC -- will be valuable to you.
This has been an extraordinarily challenging year. Now more than ever,
communities throughout America are struggling with new realities. Come to this
conference to learn and explore, with leading national experts and experienced
community practitioners, how best to lead and guide our communities’ efforts
to address human service needs, now and in the times to come.
The conference will open with a President’s Reception on Thursday evening,
May 2, and will continue with two full days of workshops and panels on Friday and Saturday. Everyone is
invited to go out to dinner together on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights
(details at the conference). Other highlights: a resource fair, topical
member-led breakfast roundtables, and the NAPC Annual Meeting with reports on
the year’s progress and upcoming projects. The Board of Directors will meet
Thursday afternoon and Sunday morning.
NAPC offers lower conference rates for members (making it a great time to
join NAPC!) and for additional people from the same member organization, to
encourage members to bring groups of interested people.
Come and interact with old and new colleagues -- and then return to your
community with new ideas, skills, and tools . . . and most important of all, an
expanded network for ongoing information and support through the National
Association of Planning Councils.
Schedule Overview
Thursday, May 2
1-4:45 p.m. NAPC 2001-2002 Board Meeting
5 p.m. Registration
5:30-7 p.m. Opening Reception and President’s Welcome
7 p.m. Dinner "out" together (optional)
Friday, May 3
7:30 a.m.- 8:30 a.m. Registration; set up
resource tables; continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Conference sessions (Keynote Address - Luncheon)
7 p.m. Dinner "out" together (optional)
Saturday, May 4
7:30-5 Breakfast roundtables, then
conference sessions (Annual Meeting - Luncheon)
7 p.m. Celebration dinner "out" together (optional)
Sunday, May 5
8:00 a.m.-noon NAPC 2002-2003 Board Meeting
FEATURED TOPICS:
Friday ...
.
Reauthorization of TANF
(national
briefing; community responses) ... Keynote address: The Social Health of the
Nation ... Disaster Preparedness (community impact; steps for
developing a business continuity plan for your council and your community’s
nonprofit sector) ... Communications Planning & Effective Strategies for
Councils (why and how to do a communications audit; results of the NAPC
Communications Survey; members, share success stories and tips)
Dan Williams -- National 211 Director,
Alliance for Information and Referral Systems (AIRS), Washington, D.C. -
NATIONAL
211 INITIATIVES
Chris Colford -- from Hill &
Knowlton, a leading D.C. public relations/lobbying firm -
COMMUNICATIONS FOR
COUNCILS
Robert Loper -- Editor, "National
Civic Review" -- National Civic League, Washington, D.C. -
SOCIAL
INDICATORS (resource materials)
The HOTEL ...
The conference took place at the Hilton
Washington Embassy Row Hotel, 2015 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20036. The hotel’s website provides this description: "An elegant,
European boutique style hotel in one of Washington’s most prestigious and
convenient locations on ‘Avenue of the Embassies’ and one half block from
Dupont Circle and Metro. We are just minutes away from the monuments, museums,
Kennedy Center and the nightlife of Georgetown and Dupont Circle. Each guest
room is newly renovated and beautifully decorated. A Frommer’s Travel Guide 4
Flag hotel that is the perfect choice for discriminating travelers from all over
the world." 15 minutes from Reagan National Airport; valet parking in
secure lot; rooms feature data ports with high speed Internet access available;
on-site business services, restaurants, and exercise room.
THANKS
to those who helped
make this conference possible!
Special thanks to 2002 conference coordinators: PROGRAM -- Pam Kestner
Chappelear (Executive Director, Council of Community Services - Roanoke,
Virginia); ARRANGEMENTS -- Mary Louis Campbell (Executive Director, The Planning
Council - Norfolk, Virginia). Thanks also to members of their staffs for
assistance with registration and other conference activities. The NAPC Board of
Directors is serving as the 2002 Conference Committee. Workshop coordinators and
moderators are John Corlett (Federation for Community Planning - Cleveland,
Ohio), Martha Blaine (Community Council of Greater Dallas - Dallas, Texas),
Jennifer Parsons and David Swain (Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. -
Jacksonville, FL), Nancy Findeisen and Katrina Middleton (Community Services
Planning Council - Sacramento, CA), Judy Rothbaum (Community Council of Central
Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), Mary Louis Campbell (The Planning Council -
Norfolk, Virginia), and Pam Kestner-Chappelear and Natalie Webster (Council of
Community Services - Roanoke, Virginia). Sharon Clark, NAPC Administrator, has
provided staff support.
Special thanks to all the conference speakers for donating their time and
expertise.
Thanks to the United Way of America, the Alliance for National Renewal,
Idealist, GuideStar, HandsNet, Connect America, the online Chronicle of
Philanthropy -- and many of NAPC’s members -- for agreeing to post news of the
NAPC conference and links to the NAPC website.
Conference Program
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2002
1:00 - 4:45 p.m.
NAPC BOARD MEETING
(Private Reserve Room, ground level)
5:00 p.m.
Registration opens
(mezzanine level)
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
PRESIDENT’S WELCOME & RECEPTION
(The Board Room, mezzanine level)
Welcome: Martha Blaine, NAPC President (Community Council of Greater Dallas
- Dallas, TX)
Invited:
U.S. Senator Hillary
Clinton (New York City, NY)
7:00 p.m.
Out to dinner together - meet in the hotel lobby
(we will identify a
restaurant for those who would like to dine together)
FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2002
7:30 a.m.
Registration; continental breakfast & networking; set up Resource Fair
materials (Ambassador Room)
8:30 a.m.
WELCOME, CONFERENCE OVERVIEW, introductions and announcements
Martha Blaine, NAPC President,; Pam Kestner-Chappelear, Conference
Program Coordinator; Mary Louis Campbell, NAPC Vice President and Conference
Arrangements Coordinator
9:15 a.m.
TANF REAUTHORIZATION: Which way will Congress and the Administration go?
TANF expires on September 30, 2002 and across the country and in
Congress a debate is proceeding about how or whether to continue the welfare
reform experiment. Hear national and local perspectives on this most
important social welfare policy question.
Moderator: John Corlett (Federation for
Community Planning - Cleveland, OH)
Speakers:
Aquiles Suarez, Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
(Washington, DC) (invited); Wendell Primus, Director of Income
Security, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; former Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Human Services Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and
Chief Economist for the House Ways and Means Committee (Washington, DC); Carol
Smith, Director of Research and Public Policy (United Community Services of
Johnson County, KS); John Corlett, Senior Fellow, Director of Public Policy
and Advocacy (Federation for Community Planning - Cleveland, OH)
11:30 a.m.
LUNCHEON
(Consulate Ballroom)
Keynote Address: Marc Miringoff - "The Social Health of the
Nation: How America is Really Doing"
1:15 p.m.
HOW TO PREVENT BUSINESS INTERRUPTIONS AND RECOVER QUICKLY FROM A DISASTER
(Ambassador
Room)
Moderator: Martha Blaine (Community
Council of Greater Dallas - Dallas, TX)
Lessons learned from the bombing
of the Murrah Building - Nancy Del
Regno (Community Council of Central Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, OK)
Linking councils into
community-wide disaster preparedness
- Phil Dessauer, Jr. (Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa - Tulsa,
OK)
The role of nonprofits after a
disaster - Doug Sauer (Council of
Community Services of New York State - Albany, NY)
Developing a business continuity
plan for your council, and helping the agencies in your non-profit community
be prepared - Martha Blaine
(Community Council of Greater Dallas - Dallas, TX)
3:00-4:45 p.m.
COMMUNICATIONS FOR COUNCILS
(Ambassador Room)
Moderator: Nancy Findeisen (Community
Services Planning Council - Sacramento, CA)
Why and how to do a
communications audit -- Chris
Colford (Hill & Knowlton Public Relations -- Washington, D.C.)
Results of the 2002 NAPC
Communications Survey -- David
Swain (Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. - Jacksonville, FL)
Councils’ communications: best
and promising practices --
facilitated sharing ... bring your organization’s best materials and
success stories!
7:00 p.m.
Out to dinner together - meet in the hotel lobby
(plans to be announced)
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2002
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast Roundtable Discussions (Ambassador Room)
Continental breakfast and table discussions on your choice of topics,
including:
Introducing NAPC’s
proposed set of "core indicators"
- Judy Rothbaum (Oklahoma City, OK)
"Community Conditions":
In Austin, how public and private partners have collaborated to produce a
monthly health and human services report that is being successfully used by
the media, policy makers and other community members to help increase
awareness about critical conditions and guide decision making processes -
Sam Woollard, Blanca Leahy, Joy Stollings and Fred Butler (Community Action Network - Austin, TX)
9:15 a.m.
SOCIAL INDICATORS - FROM YOUR COUNCIL TO THE NATION
(Ambassador Room)
Introduction / "Indicators
101": What are social
indicators and why do we care? What indicators work is like at the front
lines. NAPC’s involvement, and the new NAPC report, "From the
Bottom Up" -- Katrina Middleton (Community Services Planning Council
- Sacramento, CA)
The national perspective
-- Marc Miringoff (author of "The Social Health of the Nation: How
America is Really Doing" - Fordham Institute for Innovation in Social
Policy - Tarrytown, NY)
Your turn: councils, NAPC, and
the social indicator movement --
participatory session led by David Swain (Jacksonville Community Council,
Inc. - Jacksonville, FL)
Next steps
- shaping NAPC’s future role in social indicators at the local and
national levels
Resource person: Robert Loper,
Editor, "National Civic Review" (National Civic League,
Washington,DC), will provide some copies of the winter ‘01 issue
featuring articles by Swain and others on social indicators
11:45 a.m.
LUNCHEON & ANNUAL MEETING of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PLANNING
COUNCILS - highlighting the year’s accomplishments and plans
for the future; elections (Ballroom)
1:00 p.m.
PREPARING FOR 211
(an easy-to-remember three-digit number to connect
people with all health and human services)
Dan Williams (Alliance of Information and Referral Systems -
Washington, DC), Pam Kestner-Chappelear (Council of Community Services -
Roanoke, VA), and other planning council leaders whose communities are
preparing for 211 implementation
3:00 p.m.
MONEY-MAKERS FOR PLANNING COUNCILS
(Ambassador Room)
Moderator: Natalie E. Webster
(Council of Community Services - Roanoke, VA)
Results of the 2001-2002 NAPC
Fundraising Survey - Natalie
Webster (Council of Community Services - Roanoke, VA)
NAPC members’ success stories
-- generating revenue through special events, grants, contracts, memberships, fees
for services, institutes, fiscal sponsorships, and more.
Panelists will include: Doug Sauer (Council of Community Services of New York
State, Inc. - Albany, NY), Elaine Andersen (Human Services Council of
Mid-Fairfield - Norwalk, CT), Nancy Findeisen (Community Services Planning
Council - Sacramento, CA), Joseph W. Lapilio III (Hawaii Community Services
Council - Honolulu, HI) -- plus participant sharing and discussion
4:30-5:00 p.m.
WRAP-UP, THANK YOU’S, DOOR PRIZES & ADJOURNMENT
(Ambassador Room)
7:00 p.m.
Celebration Dinner at Marrakesh ... authentic Moroccan food, atmosphere
and entertainment.
(Meet in hotel lobby ... please note, they only accept cash.)
SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2002
8:30 a.m. - noon
NAPC BOARD MEETING, 2002-2003 Board of Directors
(Private Reserve Room)
Download
the 2002 Conference BROCHURE
(PDF file; requires Acrobat Reader)
For more information ...
To learn more about the 2002 conference, the National Association of Planning
Councils, and planning councils and their work, please visit the NAPC website:
www.communityplanning.org.
E-mail NAPC: napc@communityplanning.org. Call the
NAPC office: 214-342-2638. To learn more about or contact NAPC’s members, you’ll
find a roster, which includes links to their websites and email addresses, on
the "Meet Our Members" page of the NAPC website.
The National Association of Planning Councils
(NAPC) ...
NAPC is dedicated to working together to build strong and caring
communities across America
. NAPC is a private, non-profit national
organization which promotes quality community planning and supports its members
as they provide leadership for community-based human services and health
planning and action. NAPC facilitates communication and cooperative efforts,
linking its members with one another, and with other organizations, information,
and resources, through the annual conference, information and presentations,
consultation, strategic alliances, special projects, and the NAPC website:
www.communityplanning.org.
Planning councils bring people
together to identify needs and work toward solutions, mobilizing community
involvement, developing and coordinating services and resources, advocating for
informed decisions by funders and policy makers, and linking people with
community resources. Learn more about planning councils’ history, shared
values and core competencies, organizational models, and work by visiting the
NAPC website.
Online Photo Album
. . . Scenes from the NAPC 2002 National
Conference
NAPC sincerely appreciates all the conference planners,
presenters, and participants for making this another outstanding annual
conference filled with learning, wonderful colleagues, and new possibilities.
Photos by Sharon Clark and Jennifer Parsons