Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Community coaching to become available around the United States

By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP

NCCP's award-winning Community Coaching program will soon be available to communities throughout the continental United States.  Community Coaching helps towns, cities, counties and regions build doable and lasting strategies for creative placemaking -- and a team of stewards to help turn ideas into reality.

Community Coaching is a 6 - 9 month program that brings together diverse people from a community
-- including elected officials and working artists -- and helps them build the skills to do and lead creative placemaking.  It is designed to do more and have more impact than traditional consulting.

Sixteen communities in Louisiana and New Jersey have engaged in Community Coaching.  This year, the City of Perth Amboy, New Jersey won the Outstanding Plan - Municipal award from the American Planning Association New Jersey chapter.  Through Community Coaching, Perth Amboy changed ordinances to be more welcoming to arts and creativity, developed an arts council, and created a new event to promote arts and sustainability.

Before, we could only offer Community Coaching within 2 hours of Newark, NJ (or in the case of Louisiana, when there were more than 5 communities in a state that wanted Community Coaching at the same time. We now have other service models that allow us to serve individual communities around the continental United States.

Community coaching will be available to communities more than 2 hours from Newark beginning in September 2016.

To learn more, please join us at the next information session on May 24 at 1 pm eastern Learn more or register






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