Find someone you dont know and share one success and what evidence tells you it is a success

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Find someone you dont know and share one success
and what evidence tells you it is a success?
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Survey Results

• A sleeping giant is rising!
• Move outside the walls!
• Broke the ice!
• Just do it!

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Successes!!!!!

• Enhanced perception of what we do 8
• CC and extension working together - 3
• Networking 8
• Strategic plan 7
• Economic development -14
• Workforce development - 15
• Civic engagement 2
• Meet the needs of the people - 3

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Challenges!!!!

• Internal challenges 27
• Time, logistics, funding, communication,
  staffing, presidents role,
• Sustainability 16
• Economic development 5
• CC and extension working together 3
• Civic engagement 18
• Stakeholders, culture of deficit
• TURF - 2
• We have increased the demand

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Community colleges and community

• Civic engagement 47
• Change in culture, inclusion, stakeholders
• Bright future 37
• Strategic plan 2
• Economic development 8
• AI
• High schools

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Community college and LGUs

• Resources and sustainability 4
• Change in culture
• Very successful, critical to success
• Partnerships evolving 7, improving 8
• Share projects 5
• Personalities
• No more negativity
• Limited potential
• Non existent

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Evaluation

• Need to find a measure 6
• Dont have any 8
• Things we are using KASA, formative, paper
  trail
• Issues wasnt built in, staffing turnover
• Proof of the pudding is in the eating of it!

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Evaluation Processes

• None 6
• Improve 1, in process -4
• Focus groups 4
• Output measures 6
• Surveys 5
• Documentation - 2
• Benchmarks
• Pre/post surveys
• Every program, every service

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What should we continue to do?

• Guidance 15
• Support 7
• Convene us 7
• Sustainable development 4
• Evaluation 2
• Onsite visits 2
• Networking 2
• Keep in touch 2
• Multi-level partnerships
• CHEERLEADING

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Impact

• Enhanced role of the college 23
• Good practice 3
• Economic development 9
• Increased access to education 3
• Long ways to go!

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What we want to tell Ford

• Value of partnerships 13
• Civic engagement and community building 3
• Learning together 2
• Work with extension - 2
• Expanding offerings
• Native learners can have culture and education
• Struggled
• AI, high schools, see the potential, resources
  for the project were important

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Planning for Sustainability
Mary Emery Cornelia Butler Flora North Central
Regional Center for Rural Development
memery_at_iastate.edu www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu
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Why do some communities thrive while in the next
county over a similar community struggles to
survive?
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What the Research Tells Us

• Heartland Center for Leadership Development 20
  Clues
• Flora and Flora Entrepreneurial Support
  Infrastructure
• Flora, Flora and Fey Rural Legacy and Change

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(pause)
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Worthy Causes and Community Activities
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Worthy Causes and Community Activities
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Built Capital
Financial Capital
Natural Capital
Political Capital
Healthy Ecosystem Vital Economy Social Well-Being
Cultural Capital
Social Capital
Human Capital
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Capital

• Resources invested to create new resources over a
  long time horizon

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Why Focus on the Capitals?

• Importance of place.
• Interdependency and interaction.
• Balance.
• Ripple effect.

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Natural Capital

• Natural capital provides possibilities and limits
  to human action. It influences and is influenced
  by human actions.

• Air quality, wind and sun
• Water
• Soil and minerals
• Biodiversity
• Landscape

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Sustainable, Healthy Ecosystems with Multiple
Community Benefits

• Human communities plan and act in concert with
  natural systems
• Ecosystems are used for multiple community
  benefits
• Those with alternative uses of the ecosystem seek
  common ground

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Cultural Capital

• Spirituality
• Symbols-sense of place
• Ways of knowing
• Language-history
• Ways of acting
• Definition of what is problematic

• Cultural capital determines how we see the world,
  what we take for granted, what we value, and what
  things we think possible to change. Hegemony
  allows one social group to impose its symbols and
  reward system on other groups.

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Local and Traditional Knowledge is Appreciated
and Enhanced

• Cultural differences are recognized and valued.
• Traditional knowledge and historical places are
  maintained.
• Communities are willing to take the time to
  understand and build on different ways of knowing
  and doing.

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Human Capital

• Education
• Skills
• Health
• Self-esteem
• Self-efficacy

•  The characteristics and potentials of
  individuals that are determined by the
  intersection of nature (genetics) and nurture
  (social interactions and environment).

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Increased Use of the Knowledge, Skills, and
Abilities of Local People

• Identify capacities
• Enhance capacities
• Recombine capacities

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Social Capital

• Interactions among individuals that occur with a
  degree of frequency and comfort. Bonding social
  capital consists of interactions within specific
  groups. Bridging social capital consists of
  interactions among social groups.

• Mutual trust
• Reciprocity
• Groups
• Collective identity
• Sense of shared future
• Working together

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Social Capital

• Bonding
• Tight, exclusive networks
• Strong distinction between insiders and outsiders
• Single answer focus

• Bridging
• Open and flexible networks
• Permeable and open boundaries
• Legitimization of alternatives

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Dimensions of Social CapitalImplications for
Regional Development
Bridging



Clientalism Regional change driven by goals of
outsiders
Progressive Participation Regional change
driven by community-determined goals

Bonding
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Strong Boundaries Regions resists change,
often groups within the regions dont trust each
other and do not cooperate
Extreme individualism Rich solve problems
through financial capital Poor have few options
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Improved Regional Initiative, Responsibility, and
Adaptability

• Shared vision.
• Building first on internal resources.
• Looking for alternative ways to respond to
  constant changes.
• Loss of the victim mentality.
• Loss of cargo cult mentality.

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Political Capital

• Political capital is the ability of a group to
  influence standards, regulations and enforcement
  of those regulations that determine the
  distribution of resources and the ways they are
  used.

• Organization
• Connections
• Voice
• Power

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Increased Voice and Influence

• People who share a vision for a sustainable
  future are organized and work together.
• They know and feel comfortable around powerful
  people as well as those often excluded.
• They make sustainability part of the political
  agenda.

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Financial Capital
Forms of currency used to increase capacity of
the unit that accesses it. Financial capital is
often privileged because it is easy to measure,
and there is a tendency to put other capitals
into financial capital terms.

• Savings
• Debt capital
• Investment capital
• Tax revenue
• Tax abatements
• Grants
• Gifts

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Appropriately Diverse and Healthy Regional Economy

• Reduced poverty
• Increased efficiency
• Increased economic diversity
• Increased assets of those who live in the region

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Built Capital

• Human-constructed infrastructure used as tools
  for production of other capitals.

• Sewers and water systems
• Buildings
• Machinery
• Roads
• Electronic communication

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Physical Infrastructure that Enhances Other
Community Capitals.

• Serves multiple users.
• Is locally maintained and improved.
• Links local people together equitably.
• Connects local people, institutions and
  businesses to the outside.

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Impact on one capital can lead to changes that
spiral up or down across the capitals decreasing
or increasing the related assets.
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Spiraling of Capital Assets
Loss of jobs.
Decline in population.
Spiraling down
Decline in per capital income.
Loss of generational wealth transfer.
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Spiraling of Capital Assets
Philanthropy provides ongoing funding.
Cultural capital increases.
Spiraling up
Work on involving youth, supporting
entrepreneurship, capturing 10 of wealth
transfer.
Bridging social capital brings outside expertise
together with internal wisdom.
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Think Globally, Act Locally, Collaborate
Regionally
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Using the capitals to map system change

• What do people do differently as a result of your
  program?
• Who benefits from these changes?
• How do systems, institutions, organizations
  change?

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Indicators of Success

• Review your map and identify areas where people
  are already collecting information
• Identify those areas where measurement is very
  important to the project what indicators will
  help you measure success?
• Who will collect the information, how?

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Sustainability Tasks

• Vision to guide us
• Results orientated
• Strategic financing
• Broad-based community support
• Identify champions
• Organize for adaptability to changing conditions
• Strong internal systems
• Sustainability plan