Tomorrow! Free Storytelling Skills Workshop Thursday, August 21 - 5:00 - 8:00 pm Oakwood Creative - 247 N Macdonald, Mesa How to use narrative storytelling as an attractive and engaging way to let the public know about the exciting things that are going on in your community. Light refreshments provided. Speaker: Gordon Walek, a Chicago-based writer and photographer, has spent that last 15 years working in various communications capacities for Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a national nonprofit organization engaged in neighborhood redevelopment. Gordon was one of the creators of the ‘scribe’ or storytelling concept for LISC’s New Communities Program in Chicago, which has now become the model for LISC’s comprehensive community development work around the country. Speaker: Helen Dunlap will lead the workshop. Helen is presently a Housing and Community Economic Consultant specializing in strategic, systems and organizational change for private, nonprofit and public owners, developers, lenders and other stakeholders engaged in building, owning and financing housing and commercial community improvements. In the past 45 years, Ms. Dunlap has directed the birthing, building or in some cases rebuilding of a half dozen different nonprofit and for-profit ventures which are today developing tools for financial institutions to serve new customer groups profitably, providing technical support for SME lending in emerging markets internationally, owning and operating affordable housing which is attractive to residents and community, assisting community leaders and small businesses to understand and effectively use information to focus on what makes a difference to their “bottom lines”, and since 2005, operating a successful consulting practice focused on effectively scaling organizations focused on some aspect of community development. #RAILmesa #CommunityDevelopment #LISC #Enterprise #AffordableHousing
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:47:22 +0000
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