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August 2003
Welcome to the August issue of the National Civic League's e-mail
newsletter. This monthly communication provides information on the
activities and accomplishments of NCL and links to information on
a variety of topics.
The National Civic League is a 109-year-old nonprofit, nonpartisan,
membership organization dedicated to strengthening citizen democracy
by transforming democratic institutions. NCL accomplishes its mission
through technical assistance, training, publishing, research, and
the All-America City Award. The National Civic League is headquartered
in Denver, Colorado, and has an office in Washington, D.C. For more
information, call 303-571-4343 or visit www.ncl.org.
This newsletter is by subscription only! You are receiving this
newsletter because you requested a subscription on our website or
because you are an NCL member. If you would like to unsubscribe,
look for instructions at the end of this newsletter.
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- 2004 All-America City Awards
- Model City Charter Available Now
- Federal Community Partnerships
- MetLife
- NCL Staff Changes
- Ecommerce Maintenance Notice
- Contact Information
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All-America City |
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Watch the NCL
website for the latest updates on the 2004 All-America City
event. Information on 2004 applications and location will be available
soon.
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Model City Charter Available Now |
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| If you need to evaluate or update your city charter to keep
up with your community's changing needs and demands, the new
Model City Charter can help. It's the tool to
help you keep up with the latest perspectives and practices
on good governance. The 8th Edition of the Model City Charter
will help you manage modern issues facing municipalities, including: |
- Performance Measurement.
- Regional Cooperation.
- Citizen Participation.
- Campaign Finance.
- Election Law.
- New Technologies.
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Reap the benefits of progress and efficiency. The 8th Edition
is now available. You may order your copy of the new Model
City Charter by faxing or mailing in the order form from
the NCL website or order online at www.ncl.org.
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Federal Community Partnerships |
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 NCL’s
Federal-Community Partnerships program recently welcomed two new
staff members. The FCP Project Director, Karen Labat, comes to NCL
from Denver, Colorado, having been Director of Regional Projects
and Training for the National Civilian Community Corps of the AmeriCorps
program. She brings a strong set of skills and fifteen years of
experience working with a variety of communities and stakeholders.
Karen brings a positive, energetic, and focused approach to her
work and we are certain that all of you will enjoy working with
her.
Carolyn Abdullah is joining us as the new Assistant Project Director
for Federal-Community Partnerships, and the Training and Technical
Assistance Coordinator for Safe Kids/Safe Streets. Carolyn comes
to us from having coordinated T&TA for the Friends National
Resource Center, Community Based Family Resource and Support Program
from DHHS. She has fifteen years of experience working on a variety
of children's issues and violence prevention, and is excellent at
working with diverse communities. Carolyn brings an optimistic and
thoughtful attitude and we are sure that she will be a great asset
to our work.
The two major projects under FCP are Safe Start and Safe Kids/Safe
Streets.
The FCP staff has been busy planning the Fall 2003 Cross-Site Meeting,
to be held in Sitka, Alaska, September 10-12, 2003. This meeting
brings together all of the communities participating in the Safe
Start initiative, as well as the evaluators' technical assistance
providers. This Sitka meeting is focused on domestic violence and
children’s exposure to violence, and will entail rich discussions
from those working in the field and experts presenting on models
of service integration and systems change. The FCP staff has also
been working to put together a peer-to-peer meeting in Huntsville,
Alabama this Fall on unified financing strategies for the Safe Kids/Safe
Streets sites. Unified financing encompasses the fiscal side of
systems reform efforts to make funding streams in communities more
flexible so that services can be provided more effectively to improve
outcomes for children, youth, and families. This meeting will include
presenters from successful unified financing models, such as the
Milwaukee Wraparound project, to lead the discussion.
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MetLife |
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| The MetLife Foundation Teacher Ambassador Award, a project
of the National Civic League and sponsored by the MetLife Foundation,
recognizes teachers who have undertaken extraordinary, and voluntary,
efforts to familiarize themselves with their students' communities
and to make themselves an active member of that community. Ten
districts, in ten cities, have been chosen to take part in this
exciting opportunity. The winning teachers will be awarded grants
to be used to continue their efforts, as well as to improve,
or introduce, community engagement programs with in the school.
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The program is being introduced at high schools in select
school districts in these 10 cities:
- Chicago
- Denver
- Detroit
- Los Angeles
- New York
- Philadelphia
- San Antonio
- Tampa
- Tulsa
- Washington, D.C.
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NCL Staff Changes |
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NCL welcomes Karen Labat to the Washington, DC office. Karen Labat
is the Federal-Community Partnerships Project Director for the Safe
Start and Safe Kids programs. In this capacity, Karen has overall
management responsibility to insure training and technical assistance
is provided to both programs, to serve as a liaison on behalf of
NCL with funding agencies, local grantees, program providers and
evaluators, and to build sustainable relationships with other local,
regional and national organizations. More
NCL also welcomes Carolyn Abdullah to the DC office. She is the
new Assistant Project Director for Federal-Community Partnerships,
and the Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator for Safe Kids/Safe
Streets.
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Ecommerce Maintenance Notice |
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NCL's
online ordering site will be temporarily down for maintenance in
late August. Please fax or mail in your orders for membership or
publications during this time. Fax Number: 303-571-4404. Thank you.
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