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Recommendations for the user of this Powerpoint presentation

Recommendations for the user of this Powerpoint presentation. This is a template, the first section tells the global view of the EZECCCREAP program. The second half is where you tell your community’s story. Please customize as needed, adding slides as necessary, editing titles etc.

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  1. Recommendations for the user of this Powerpoint presentation • This is a template, the first section tells the global view of the EZECCCREAP program. The second half is where you tell your community’s story. • Please customize as needed, adding slides as necessary, editing titles etc. • It is recommended to add pictures as appropriate, to add life to the presentation and to better convey your community’s story. • Please make sure to delete this slide when done. • Questions: suzette.agans@wdc.usda.gov

  2. Rural Empowerment Program Lessons Learned www.ezec.govwww.rurdev.usda.gov Created 5-07

  3. Presentation Format • National Perspective • Implementing the program – community perspective • Questions from the Audience

  4. Empowerment Program: Quick Look • 1994-2009 • Three application and funding rounds • Ten-year designation/community • Annual funds: $167K-$4million/community • Approximately 60 communities • Only highly distressed communities (35%+ poverty rate) (2 exceptions: outmigration) Benchmark Review

  5. Empowerment Program: Quick Look (cont’d) • Wide range of acceptable purposes • Community driven • Objective: Progress during the 10 years • Objective: Sustainability after the 10 years • Leveraging of funds (17:1) • No new applications currently accepted • For more info: www.ezec.gov • EZ-EC urban program at HUD

  6. Lesson #1 • This approach works! Many highly distressed rural communities can organize themselves to successfully build a stronger present and future Board –Griggs/Steele EZ

  7. Lesson #2 • Target outside financial assistance to make a big difference • Lesson #2A: Support small staff and administrative costs • Lesson #2B: Provide seed money for leveraging • Lesson #2C: Provide reliable funding over ten years

  8. Lesson #3 • Target outside technical assistance to make a big difference • Lesson #3A: Provide vehicles (especially conferences) for peer sharing • Lesson #3B: Focus TA on processes with long-term benefits (e.g., broad community participation, board development, financial management, benchmark tracking)

  9. Lessons #4 & #5 • Lesson #4: Utilize broad community participation • Lesson #5: Use this opportunity to develop new cadre of leaders Northwoods NiiJii EC

  10. Lessons #6 - 9 • Lesson #6: Conduct community assessment • Lesson #7: Develop community strategic plan • Lesson #8: Use evaluation and feedback • Lesson #9: Track progress on plan implementation

  11. Lessons #10 -14 • Lesson #10: Work with nearby communities • Lesson #11: Network with other communities • Lesson #12: Build effective partnerships • Lesson #13: Capture and use knowledge from many sources • Lesson #14: Encourage a positive can do attitude

  12. Your Community • Insert map for geographic orientation

  13. best to show 2 different periods – could include population changes, economic changes, age changes as appropriate to your community Demographics

  14. Organizational Structure • Board structure, changes, staffing, and how this has may have changed or the lessons learned.

  15. 3 Accomplishments • Good to show pictures along with statements of these significant accomplishments

  16. Secrets of Success • Describe how you were able to get to success, especially those items or processes that others in your audience may not know about.

  17. Biggest Surprise

  18. Cross-Community Collaboration • Lesson learned in this area

  19. Challenges • Describe Current or future changes the community faces.

  20. Sustainability: the FUTURE • Describe how your community is going to get there or has gotten there.

  21. Lessons Learned • Describe others types of lessons learned

  22. Conclusion • Conclude with impression or overall lesson learned you want your audience to walk away with.

  23. Thank You Questions and Comments?

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