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		<title>Ten Pointers for More Inclusive Public Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at&#160;the Orton Family Foundation recently shared a list of 10 great tips for inclusive engagement that we wanted to share with our members. Orton&#8217;s tips come from lessons learned through their engagement work, especially with their&#160;Community Heart &#38; Soul program &#8211; which is detailed in the full post. But the list was so good, we wanted to make sure our network saw it. Check it out below or read Orton&#8217;s full post here. Top 10 Tips for Inclusive Engagement 1. There&#8217;s no such [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/18044">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CM &amp; Orton Launch Heart &amp; Soul Talks and Trainings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce that our friends at&#160;CommunityMatters&#160;&#8211; a partnership in which&#160;NCDD is a core member &#8211; are&#160;introducing&#160;a new series of online events on&#160;the&#160;Orton Family Foundation&#8216;s&#160;Heart &#38; Soul Planning process, which is also the basis of Orton&#8217;s new&#160;Heart &#38; Soul Field Guide. The series begins this&#160;Thursday, February 12th at 4pm Eastern with a &#8220;Heart &#38; Soul Talk&#8221; conference call. The talk, titled &#8220;Use Community Network Analysis to Improve Participation and Results,&#8221; promises to be a great opportunity to learn about a useful&#160;tool&#160;that can&#160;strengthen the [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/17469">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“Resilient Communities” Conference Call from CM, Jan. 22</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/17190</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to invite NCDD members once again to join CommunityMatters&#160;&#8211; a joint partnership that NCDD is proud to be a member of &#8211; for the next installation in their capacity-building call series. This month&#8217;s call on &#8220;Resilient Communities&#8221;, and it will be taking place on&#160;Thursday, January 22nd, from 2-3pm Eastern Time. The folks at CM describe the upcoming call like this: Our communities are constantly changing. Most changes are gradual and predictable &#8211; a new store opens on Main Street, newcomers come to [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/17190">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Orton’s Community Field Guide Makes Holiday Reading List</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/16924</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for something&#160;to read during your&#160;holiday down time&#160;or gift ideas, we encourage you to check out the great community and economic planning reading list that&#160;our partners with CommunityMatters shared on their blog. We especially encourage you to learn more about&#160;the Orton Family Foundation&#8217;s wonderful&#160;Community Heart &#38; Soul Field Guide,&#160;a resource on the list that is designed to help those of us doing community &#38; civic engagement work.&#160;You can read the list below of find the original post here. The Center for Rural [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/16924">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>6 Guiding Questions for Online Engagement from CM</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/16749</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On one of their recent capacity building calls, our friends at&#160;CommunityMatters &#8211; a partnership in which NCDD is a member &#8211; had a great discussion about online engagement. They distilled a list of&#160;key questions to help people think about and plan for online engagement that are incredibly useful. We encourage you to read more about them below or find the original CM blog post by clicking here. Digital engagement is the latest buzz when it comes to public participation. We hear about the great work [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/16749">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CM  Call on Rural Brain Drain, Oct. 9th</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/16455?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cm-call-on-rural-brain-drain-oct-9th</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to invite NCDD members to join our partners at&#160;CommunityMatters&#160;for the next of their monthly capacity-building calls series. This month&#8217;s call is titled &#8220;Rewriting the Rural Narrative&#8221;, and it will be taking place next&#160;Thursday, October 9th from 4-5pm Eastern Time.&#160; This month&#8217;s call will feature the insights of Ben Winchester, research fellow, University of Minnesota Extension.&#160;CM describes the upcoming call like this: Brain drain &#8211; the loss of 18-29 year olds &#8211; dominates the conversation about rural population change. Yet at the same [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/16455?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cm-call-on-rural-brain-drain-oct-9th">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>50 “Next Generation” Digital Engagement Tools</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/16291?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=50-next-generation-digital-engagement-tools</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme for this year&#8217;s&#160;NCDD conference, &#8220;Democracy for the Next Generation&#8220;, is meant to invite us to build on all the innovative tools and practices that have been invigorating our field in recent years. Many&#160;of those innovations&#160;are digital, and that is why a major goal for NCDD 2014&#160;is to help our field&#160;better understand how to utilize technology for engagement and to provide insights and know-how for harnessing the emerging technologies that support dialogue and deliberation. NCDD 2014 will&#160;feature tons of&#160;&#8220;next generation&#8221; engagement tech, so don&#8217;t [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/16291?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=50-next-generation-digital-engagement-tools">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CM Call on Digital Public Participation, Sept. 5</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/16066?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cm-call-on-digital-public-participation-sept-5</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to invite NCDD members to join our partners at&#160;CommunityMatters&#160;for the next of their monthly capacity-building calls series. This month&#8217;s call is titled &#8220;Deepening Public Participation -&#160;Digitally&#8221;, and it will be taking place next&#160;Friday, September 5th&#160;from 2-3pm Eastern Time.&#160; We are excited to note that this month&#8217;s call features insights from Pete Peterson&#160;of&#160;the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership&#160;-&#160;NCDD organization member &#8211; as well as&#160;Alissa Black of the&#160;Omidyar Network.&#160;The folks at CM describe the upcoming call this way: Your town is [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/16066?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cm-call-on-digital-public-participation-sept-5">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CM Call on Rural Design, August 20th</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/15948?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cm-call-on-rural-design-august-20th</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to invite NCDD members once again to join our partners at&#160;CommunityMatters&#160;for the next installation in their capacity-building call series, which is jointly hosted by the&#160;Citizens&#8217; Institute on Rural Design. This month&#8217;s call is titled &#8220;How Design Sparks Rural Development&#8221;, and it will be taking place next Wednesday, August 20th from 4-5pm Eastern Time. The folks at CM describe the upcoming call this way: Urban, not rural, places are usually thought of as hubs of creativity and innovation, but this month&#8217;s CommunityMatters&#174; and [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/15948?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cm-call-on-rural-design-august-20th">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CM Conference Call on Grassroots Grants, July 31</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/15665?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cm-conference-call-on-grassroots-grants-july-31</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time again for another&#160;capacity-building conference call from our organizational partners at&#160;CommunityMatters, which is coming up this&#160;Thursday, July 31st from 4-5pm EST. The topic of this latest call is &#8220;Grassroots Grants&#8220;, and CM will be partnering with Janis Foster Richardson, the Executive Director of Grassroots Grantmakers, to host it. They introduce the call&#8217;s topic like this: Is your community a place for possibilities? Can residents bring their ideas to life, take risks, make connections and ply their creative skills? Grassroots grantmaking focuses on helping organizations [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/15665?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cm-conference-call-on-grassroots-grants-july-31">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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