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Community Review Follow-Up. Building capacity to implement recommendations. Lorie Higgins, Willem Braak , Kathee Tifft & Shanna Hamilton. University of Idaho Extension Community Development. Rural Business & Entrepreneurship Entrepreneur Training Open for Business Marketing
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Community Review Follow-Up Building capacity to implement recommendations Lorie Higgins, Willem Braak,KatheeTifft & Shanna Hamilton
University of Idaho Extension Community Development • Rural Business & Entrepreneurship • Entrepreneur Training • Open for Business • Marketing • Customer Relations • Consumer Surveys • E-Commerce • Cultural Industries • Two Degrees NW: Where Art Meets the Land • Spaces & Places • Farmers Markets • Community Design • Rapid Response Design Team • Community Gardens • Human & Social Capital • Workforce • Living Wage Project • Leadership • Training / Community Reviews • Center for Comm. Buildingto End Poverty • Data Tools • Indicators • Community Driven Economic Development ~ 20 faculty ~ 6 FTE
Rapid Response Design Team Steve Drown, UI Extension Education Specialist in Bioregional Planning and Landscape Architecture in the College of Agriculture and Life Science, srdrown@uidaho.edu UI Extension Faculty & Funding + Landscape Architecture + Bioregional Planning & Community Design Grad Students Follow-up in Horizons Communities Design plans for outdoor public spaces, community beautification, and the design or retrofitting of space for public gardens and farmers markets
Create plans in a timely manner so that communities can proceed with efforts to fund and implement projects -> private sector takes over from there Albion: Main St. Master Plan and Regional Trail System Shoshone: 5 Yr Master Plan for Lincoln County Fairgrounds Heyburn: Landscape Design for 211 Interchange on I84 Eden/Hazelton: Master Plan for Wilson Reservoir Park Menan: Exercise Trail for Midway Elementary, Park Plan for Main St., and Landscape & Parking Plan for Historic Town Hall Roberts: Walking Trail and Park for Community Center Ririe: Master Plan for Ririe Memorial Park
Two Degrees Northwest Goal: Develop cultural industries in rural regions Pilot region: 9 counties in NC Idaho and SE Washington ($2.1 economic multiplier) Focus: Culinary, Arts, Heritage, Scenic/Recreational Strategies: Asset Ident., Asset Development & Cooperative Mktg. • Business of Art Wrkshps • Framing for Galleries* • Photographing Art • Packaging Images for Juries • E-Commerce • Social Media • Packaging & Labeling • Booth Design • Sales / Customer Service • Going Wholesale • Product Development (*local training capacity)
Artisan Trails Coming soon: Website w/interactive guide, downloadable version, featured sites and itineraries, loop trails, mobile version of site and an App! Cost: $25,000 - $30,000 total ($15K cash) Partners: Idaho Commission on the Arts, City of Moscow, Kamiah Chamber, Moscow Food Co-op, Idaho Horizons, Clearwater Resource Conservation & Development Council
New Meadows Community Review Follow-Up Began October 2011 6 workshops so far 4 Extension faculty 4 Action Teams 20 – 25 core team members Steering Committee Initial Projects – Quick Successes
Workshops Futures Game Getting the Right People to the Table Attributes of Successful Communities & Asset Mapping Community Vision & Action Teams Steering Committee, Ground Rules & Identify Potential Projects S.M.A.R.T Goals
Created a Toolbox Using the Community Capitals Framework • Social • Cultural • Human • Political • Financial • Built • Natural Assets Mapped and Categorized
Just in Time Training Leadership training will be incorporated into work sessions for the teams: 30 minutes at the beginning of a two hour session every month. Teams meet between monthly meetings. Valley and Adams County Extension Educators will continue to facilitate & coach and coordinate training sessions.
More Info and Contacts • Next Steps in the Meadows Valley • Willem Braak: wbraak@uidaho.edu • Shanna Hamilton: shannas@uidaho.edu • Mac Qualls: macqualls@gmail.com • http://www.longvalleyblog.org/meadows-valley/ • http://www.newmeadowsidaho.org • U of I Extension Community Development • www.extension.uidaho.edu/communitydevelopment/ (coming soon!) • Two Degrees Northwest’s site featuring Artisan Trails • www.2dnw.org (revamp in progress) • Lorie Higgins: higgins@uidaho.edu 208.885.9717 / 208.669.1480 • http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/aers/ (Also RIP!)