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Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee

Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee. Virginia Chapter American Planning Association San Antonio Texas April 24 th 2006 Irayda Ruiz, AICP Co-Chair, Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee. Diversity Committee. How did it all get started? First Steps Creation of ECDC in Virginia

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Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee

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  1. Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee Virginia Chapter American Planning Association San Antonio Texas April 24th 2006 Irayda Ruiz, AICP Co-Chair,Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee

  2. Diversity Committee • How did it all get started? • First Steps • Creation of ECDC in Virginia • Moving Forward.

  3. How did it all get started? • First Minority Summit held at 2004 APA National Conference. • Diversity Summit listserv kept the momentum going.

  4. First Steps • Contact with State Chapter established • Develop a network of interested members at the local level. • Learn from previous efforts.

  5. Contact with State Chapter established • Contacted VAPA President. • Became Co-Director of Tidewater Section of VAPA.

  6. Develop a network of interested members. • Diversity in Planning Networking Breakfasts. • Jan ’05 Hampton • April ’05 Va. Beach • June ’05 Newport News • October ’05 Norfolk • Keep a good database. • Develop and nurture a strong leadership team.

  7. Learn from previous efforts. • Contacted NY ECDC. • - Used NY-Metro ECDC by-laws • as basis. • -Learned from their experience and • successes. • Kept in contact with other interested members outside Virginia.

  8. Creation of ECDC in Virginia • In April of ‘05 VAPA approved the creation of VAPA-ECDC. • In August ‘05 VAPA assigned budget and suggested the submittal of a proposal to CPC for additional funds. • October ’05 APA approved CPC Grant. • ECDC first meeting took place in Nov. of 2005!

  9. Moving Forward… • Two networking breakfasts in ‘06: VCU and HU. Three more are being planned for this calendar year. • ECDC website was launched on Jan ’06. http://www.vaplanning.org/diversity.html • New regular column that focuses on Diversity will appear in VAPA News Brief.

  10. Moving Forward… • On March 30th of ‘06 VAPA-ECDC hosted the first Diversity Summit. • ECDC launched a marketing campaign, using CPC grant funds, to encourage young minorities to choose planning and supervisors to take the necessary steps to diversify their work force.

  11. Thank you! Irayda Ruiz iruiz@vcu.edu

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