CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015
For more information, contact:
Jill Ewing
APA-Indiana
317/634-5963
Planning Prosperity for Indiana’s Next 200 Years is the theme for the 2015 APA Indiana Fall Conference, being held in partnership with the Indiana Association for Community Economic Development’s largest convening of the year. The theme speaks to the energy of formal and informal community leaders which are critical for building resilient families and vibrant communities – in short, creating prosperity.
This is the first year for the Indiana Association for Community Economic Development (IACED) and the Indiana chapter of the American Planning Association to co-host a conference focused on important issues and new ideas for building prosperity in Indiana.
The conference is scheduled for October 7-9, 2015 at the Century Center in South Bend.
If you are interested in presenting or if you know someone who would be interested in presenting, please review or share this information. Please complete the attached information and submit it to Jill Ewing, APA-Indiana via e-mail no later than close of business July 31, 2015.
WHO ATTENDS
· Nonprofit organizations with a mission to build resilient families and vibrant communities· Local units of government (municipal and county) responsible for community development, economic development and planning
· Financial and investment institutions committed to community reinvestment / · Allies in philanthropy
· Developers, builders and construction companies
· Advocacy organizations
· Real estate developers and agents
· Social entrepreneurs
· Small business champions
· Public Housing Authorities
CONFERENCE TRACKS
Indiana’s Bicentennial: Celebrating 200 Years of Indiana History
Exercising leadership generates widespread ownership of challenges and solutions; it is a practice not a title. This track will discuss the skills and strategies to mobilize people, demonstrate judgment, make and communicate decisions, set and measure performance goals, generate commitments, and manage individual and group responsibility. Content will be broadly applicable to all sectors of prosperity: public, private, and nonprofit.
Reimagining Community: What do the Communities of the Future Look Like?
Policy is most often discussed at the formation stage with legislatures and executives. Policy is also set through administrative and regulatory action by the executive branch and its agencies as well as the judicial branch. Some of the most important policymaking occurs at the local and regional levels. This track will outline strategies and significant policy opportunities to organize, engage, react, adapt, and apply policy in the community economic development field. Learn what policymakers are thinking and how you can adapt and also change policy.
Local Generators: Infrastructure and Economic Development
Building resilient families requires transforming lives through interdisciplinary know-how, focusing on the prevention and remediation of problems. Human services meet individual needs and capitalize on assets to solve problems. A person’s assets are a balance of strengths and talents in seven areas: physical, social, emotional, intellectual, environmental, financial, and spiritual. This track will focus on service delivery approaches and systems to improve accessibility, accountability, and coordination among families, stakeholders, professionals, and agencies to meet needs and build assets.
Enhancing Planning Practice: What Professional Planners Need to Know
Building resilient families requires transforming lives through interdisciplinary know-how, focusing on the prevention and remediation of problems. Human services meet individual needs and capitalize on assets to solve problems. A person’s assets are a balance of strengths and talents in seven areas: physical, social, emotional, intellectual, environmental, financial, and spiritual. This track will focus on service delivery approaches and systems to improve accessibility, accountability, and coordination among families, stakeholders, professionals, and agencies to meet needs and build assets.
Policy Advocacy: Federal, State, and Local Policies Affecting Families and Communities
Prosperous communities possess wealth in the form of capital: natural, physical, social, individual, intellectual, financial, and political. Prosperous communities are places where human opportunity and social and economic vitality combine and are connected with a continuous process of growth, adaptation, and improvement. This track will focus on strategies and practices to change the built environment through harnessing natural capital, building physical places to meet needs, create opportunity, and appreciate life.
Assets & Opportunities: How Individuals and Families Build Wealth for Prosperous Communities
Prosperous communities possess wealth in the form of capital: natural, physical, social, individual, intellectual, financial, and political. Prosperous communities are places where human opportunity and social and economic vitality combine and are connected with a continuous process of growth, adaptation, and improvement. This track will focus on strategies and practices to change the built environment through harnessing natural capital, building physical places to meet needs, create opportunity, and appreciate life.
Collective Impact: We Can Do So Much More Together
Collective impact is deeply rooted in the idea that all of us is better than one of us. When we work in silos to address issues or community needs we fall short of the potential for creating prosperity. The pillars of collective impact are: 1) Common Agenda, 2) Shared Measurement, 3) Mutually Reinforcing Activities, 4) Continuous Communications, and 5) Backbone Support. IACED deploys collective impact in a place-based strategy for neighborhood engagement and planning.
Tools of the Trade: Programs and Funding for the Work of Planning and Community Development
Some of the tools used in communities are well-known, and others are less well-known. Tools used in community economic development include: Consolidated Planning, Housing Needs Assessments, Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, HOME Investment Partnership, Community Development Block Grants, Individual Development Accounts, and Neighborhood Congress. Non-profit boards can play an important role in the delivery of community economic development, but boards often struggle with leadership development and governance. Tools for board development include: Strategic Plans, Bylaws, Conflict of Interest Policies, Budgeting, Fund Development, and Media.
SESSION TOPICS
Proposals may be on a variety of planning and community economic development topics, however they should fit into one of the themes. The table below provides ideas for session topics by theme.
Indiana’s Bicentennial1. Landmark Moments in Indiana Planning and Community Development History
2. Celebrating People and Place
3. Looking Towards Indiana’s Future
/ Policy Advocacy
1. Property Taxes and Affordable Housing
2. THUD and Your Community
3. Addressing Homelessness
Reimaging Community
1. Church and Community
2. Land Use Regulation
3. Preservation and Adaptive Reuse
/ Assets & Opportunities
1. Individual Development Accounts
2. First Time Homebuyer Counseling
3. Social Enterprise
Local Generators
1. Complete Streets
2. Green Infrastructure
3. Workforce Development
/ Collective Impact
1. Comprehensive Community Development
2. Neighborhood Governance and Results-Based Accountability
3. Collaboration and Consortia
Enhancing Planning Practice
1. Law
2. Ethics
3. Open Government
/ Tools of the Trade
1. HUD Programs
2. Low Income Housing Tax Credits
3. Board Leadership and Governance
Again, please feel free to propose an original session or one of the above.
REQUESTED INFORMATION
Presenter Information
Name:
Organization:
Title:
Address: City: State: Zip:
Email: Telephone: Twitter handle:
Describe yourself and fellow presenters, if any. This should take the form of a brief bio rather than a resume. (Used for marketing and introduction)
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On which of the following dates are presenters committed to attend (Ideally, presenters should be committed to attend all dates)?
October 8, 2015 / October 9, 2015What is the title of your session:
Describe the main idea and a basic outline of your content and how it fits the theme “Planning Prosperity for Indiana’s Next 200 Years”
What format of “presentation materials”?
PowerPoint/Prezi / Keynote / Video / OtherIn which track does your content best fit and why?
Please fill out the APA Certification Maintenance form if you would like the session submitted for approval for CM credit for planners.
Questions for CM sessions are:
1. How will the event offer a professionally relevant learning experience for a planner (e.g. for a planner with at least 4 years beyond earning a 2-year master's)?
2. How does this event meet a specific-planning related training objective?
3. What are the specific training objectives? What do you want attendees to learn from this event?
Criteria for CM eligible activities are:
1. Are led by one or more subject matter experts.
An expert is defined by APA as a professional who has made a contribution to the profession through practice, teaching, research, or publications; completed works that proclaim individuality and mastery of the principles of planning taught; and whose work demonstrates outstanding quality and professionalism.
2. Do not include proprietary information.
3. Are at least 30 minutes in duration.
4. Remain unbiased and non-promotional in nature. Note: An organization’s services or products may be discussed prior to or after the completion of the CM credit portion of the event.