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Whole Neighborhoods…One Milwaukee
Saturday, October 26th, 2013, 9am-3pm
St. Marcus Lutheran School, 2215 North Palmer, Milwaukee
Overview
This Community Development Symposium brings together neighborhoodpartners to network, share information on promising practices, and build strength and support for collective impact. Many of us work in specific geographic places, with specific programs and partners, the symposium will help partners strategize to create a community development agenda with whole neighborhoods for one Milwaukee.
Breakfast and Networking 8:00-9:00AM
Literature tables will be available for participants to share programs and opportunities with others. Please bring materials to share!
Opening Remarks and Keynote Address 9:00-10:15AM
Keynote Address: Noted community development researcher, Dr. Todd Swanstrom, will draw parallels between community development initiatives in the older industrial cities of St. Louis and Milwaukee. His presentation will discuss their efforts in St. Louis to create a well-organized network of grassroots organizations and Community Development Corporations who advance the agenda to transform St. Louis. In this session, participants will hear Dr. Swanstrom outline the steps St. Louis took to build a strong and connected system and why it matters for Milwaukee.
Workshops/Breakout Groups 10:30 AM to 11:55 AM
“Accessing City Assistance and Services” – participants will learn about the support resources that the city of Milwaukee provides to neighborhood residents. This workshop is for residents, block watch captains, and leaders of community based organizations that possess a desire to connect their residents and neighbors with resources that will help them revitalize their neighborhoods.
“Connect, Relate, Abate” -- Community safety pervades every aspect of a neighborhood’s quality of life. Community safety concerns connect many of the various strategies that work to revitalize neighborhoods. In this workshop, neighborhood and law enforcement partners will discuss tactics for residents and stakeholders work together to deal with chronic nuisance properties in an effort to create a strong neighborhood.
“Settle-Up” – Settlement Houses have long been places of strength, safety, stability and community solidarity. Programming from Milwaukee’s Settlement Houses (Neighborhood Centers) is growing and has the potential to serve nearly half of the Milwaukee’s residents. Participants in this workshop will learn how Settlement Houses are seeding and leading programs with residents in their neighborhoods. Workshop attendees will also learn how the work of neighborhood centers fits into the larger agenda of transforming our city, as they collaborate under the umbrella of the United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee (UNCOM).
“Small Steps, Big Impact” – Change does not happen overnight. It requires small transactional efforts that lead to transformation over time. Leaders from the Layton Boulevard West Neighbors will discuss the model of the four Healthy Neighborhood principles (Image, Neighborhood Management, Physical Conditions, and Market) and their theory of transformation for the greater Layton Boulevard Neighborhoods (vocabulary, mindset, strategies, asset v. deficit-based approach, impact). This session will be a great opportunity to learn from one a thriving neighborhood organization.
“Still Rising” – This breakout discussion features the story of SouthEastern Wisconsin Common Ground’s campaign, Milwaukee Rising, which engaged citizens who led with action, advocacy, and accountability to address the foreclosure crisis in Milwaukee’s urban core. This inspiring workshop will help participants learn how ordinary people can bring extraordinary results when they lead with power.
Lunch and Networking 12Noon-1:00PM
Take time to visit literature tables and network with peers in one-on-one conversation.
Special Door Prize
During the lunch portion of the symposium, we will announce a $1,000 home improvement/home repair grant leveraged by a low-interest loan from ACTS Housing. Winners must be registered for the symposium a volunteer resident of one of Milwaukee’s neighborhoods.
Funder’s Panel “Aligning the Grass-tops” 1:00PM-2:30PM
This afternoon panel is designed to look at what’s happening at the “grasstops”. This panel takes a broader look at place-based community development approaches and what is needed at the grasstops to support impact at the grassroots level. Facilitated by Dr. Todd Swanstrom, panelists include Chief Edward Flynn, Milwaukee Police Department; Gill Llanas, Retired Executive Director, Northwestern Mutual Foundation; Susan Lloyd, Executive Director, Zilber Family Foundation; and Rhonda McFarland, Vice President Community Development Banking, Chase Bank.
Closing 2:30-3:00PM
Sponsored By: BMO Harris, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Northwestern Mutual Foundation
With support from: Zilber Neighborhood Initiative
Keynote Speaker Biography
Todd Swanstrom is the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and co-author of the award-winning Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century (2004). His latest book (co-edited with Clarissa Hayward), Justice and the American Metropolis, was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2011. Since 2004, as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s Building Resilient Regions Network (http://brr.berkeley.edu/), he has published research on local responses to the foreclosure crisis and efforts to increase employment of women, minorities, and low-income persons in construction. His research currently focuses on community development and neighborhood change, especially in “weak market” metros. He is using the resources of his endowed professorship to support the Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (http://www.communitybuildersstl.org/), an alliance of community development nonprofits working to build vibrant neighborhoods that support a stronger and more competitive regional economy. Swanson has a Master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
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