Community Sustainability Project

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Community Sustainability Project

• Exploring and challenging our collective concept
  of what a Community Associations role and
  function in Calgarys increasingly diverse
  communities.

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Project Goals

• 1. Explore Calgarys community associations
  current reality as it relates to
• - Our CA Role
• - Engaging and managing resident volunteers
• - Managing Facilities and Infrastructure
• - Working effectively with City of Calgary
• 2. Explore the Principles of Community
  Sustainability
• - Maximizing Resources
• - Developing Strategic Partnerships
• - Practicing Effective Resident Engagement
• - Measuring Impact of Programs and Services
• - Developing Strong Community Leadership Skills

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Project Goals continued

• 3. Explore opportunities to work collaboratively
  with others both traditional and
  non-traditional organizations
• 4. Develop engaging self-governance structures
  while engaging representation from diverse
  populations

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Project Background Six Community Association
Demonstration Pilots

• Participation Criteria
• Organizational State of Readiness
• Developing Effective Alliances
• Maximizing Resources
• Developing Effective Governance
• Membership
• Participating Pilots
• Bowness
• Beddington
• Windsor Park
• Bankview, South Calgary, Richmond Knobhill
  Killarney Glengarry
• Albert Park Radisson Heights
• Fairview
• Interesting to note that we have other CAs (both
  established and new) identifying a heightened
  state of readiness and the desire to participate
  in the exploration/design of a new
  delivery/partnership model

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Project Partners include

• FCC possible opportunity to carve out a new
  niche area / fee for service contract with the
  City. Possible focus on Planning, Education,
  Networking, Organizational Health, Governance
  Models and/or Operations?
• Volunteer Calgary established link to their
  Amplifying Volunteer Capacity Initiative
• United Way of Calgary Area partnership in
  repurposing Bowness Sportsplex
• Others?

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Pilot Outcomes

• Recent learning supports our identified need to
  review our current community association
  partnership model and its parameters as they
  pertains to
• Role of our CA volunteers clarify role
• Role of City Liaisons - balance role resources
• Revisit current LOC develop SOPs
• Issue of partnership inequity challenge policy
• Organizational capacity / structure
• Mutual expectations and accountability
• CA role - advocacy? community service?