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8. Sustaining action and creating structural change around leadership
What is your community’s plan for maintaining a strong community leadership system?
How can your community sustain the changes it has already made in its leadership?
What structural changes have been made in how the community does its work/makes decisions?
What structural changes have been made so that your community leadership sustains partnerships with others?
As we begin the new year, take a few moments to reflect back on the work your community has done to reduce poverty. Since we began Horizons, our work has been significant. Please share your stories with us!
4.. Sustaining action and creating structural change around poverty
What structures have been changed that will enable your community to address poverty in the long term?
How will you monitor and evaluate your community’s progress in reducing poverty?
What community resources will be needed to sustain the community plan to reduce poverty?
What additional resources would make a difference in your community’s work to reduce poverty?
It was so good to see so many of you at the Partnership Summits. Wow!! Our partners were very impressed with the many wonderful things happening in our communities. The information gleaned at these summits will help with the last few questions this month.
11. Taking action on community
In what ways is your community operating or working differently? In what new or expanded ways are people contributing to your community?
How are low income involved?
What structures have been created or changed that will help your community?
What new partnerships have been created, and what difference have they made for your community?
Have you learned anything about how nearby communities like yours are taking action to reduce poverty?
Do you see any opportunities to exchange information or combine efforts in this work?
The blogging questions for November focus on your community’s leadership. The timing is perfect since this is election time.
7. Taking action on leadership
The questions we will answer for the Action Phase are divided into 6 major categories so I will post a set for October, November, December, January, February, and March.
3. Taking action on poverty
What kinds of concrete steps are being taken by your community to address poverty?
How did your community make choices about the actions most like to have an impact on poverty?
How are low income involved?
How does your plan for poverty reduction link with existing leaders, groups and organizations?
What other partnership will help your community carry out its poverty reduction plan?
In mid-September, Boise State Radio will air a series of special reports during its “Morning Edition” show. “That Could Be Me: The New Voices of Poverty in Idaho” will include very personal vantage points of the community’s economic challenges and a roundtable discussion aimed at solution-driven conversation. This new series will look beyond the statistics and trends of the recession to engage community members, service providers and leaders.
As the Boise State Radio news team reported through the summer of 2009, they concluded that they were hearing “new voices.” One voice said, “I can’t find a job;” another said, “I don’t know where my next meal will come from;” and yet another said, “I’ve just lost my home.”
As the number of jobless, hungry and homeless continued to grow, team members found that these “voices” increasingly included those that they knew. As a result, they realized that they, themselves, were simply “one degree away” from poverty.
Information on the Boise State Radio network, including KBSU-Arts and Cultural Programming, KBSU AM730, Jazz FM and KBSX 91.5, is available at http://radio.boisestate.edu.
Source: http://news.boisestate.edu/blog/2009/09/bsu-radio-series-id-poverty/
In this updated video tutorial Diane Rowland Sc.D., executive vice president of Kaiser and executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, reviews the latest data on how Medicaid operates and its role in covering the low-income population. The tutorial presents the most recent data on Medicaid coverage and spending, long-term care assistance, impact on access to care, and discusses the program in the context of the current economy and health reform legislation.
Greetings Community Bloggers!!
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the blogs you have posted on your individual community sites. Exciting things are happening all over southcentral and southeastern Idaho. Please remember to identify the category in your posts. This month’s questions are from Category 11.
11. Taking action on community
In what ways is your community operating or working differently?
In what new or expanded ways are people contributing to your community?
How are low income involved?
What structures have been created or changed that will help your community?
What new partnerships have been created , and what difference have they made for your community?
Have you learned anything about how nearby communities like yours are taking action to reduce poverty?
Do you see any opportunities to exchange information or combine efforts in this work?
The Coeur d’Alene Press reminds us of the importance our TIME and energy can make in strengthening communities and economies…
“Data released this week by the government-run Corporation for National and Community Service shows 61.8 million Americans volunteered in 2008, an increase of 1 million over the previous year.
Think about that a moment: Despite millions of Americans losing their jobs, volunteerism increased. That says a lot about the makeup of our country. Rather than give up, more Americans stepped up to make their communities better.
Idaho ranked 14th in percentage of citizens who volunteer — 33.1 percent — and a spectacular third in the nation in hours per resident spent volunteering (53.6 hours per volunteer). All told, 373,300 volunteers in Idaho stepped forward, producing 60.3 million hours of service estimated worth $1.2 billion.”
Click here to read the whole article from the Coeur d’Alene Press.
It is the first of the month so here are the questions that will help you reflect on what is happening in your community. When answering the questions please include the category number and title the question is from on your blog. For this month the questions are all from category 7. Taking action on leadership. Anyone can answer the questions.
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