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First Name: Gloria
Last Name: Martin
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I am the Executive Director of the Florida Association for Community Action, Inc. The association is a federation of Community Action Agencies and Head Start programs in Florida. These programs help low income families become self-sufficient.
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First Name: Gloria
Last Name: Martin
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I am the Executive Director of the Florida Association for Community Action, Inc. The association is a federation of Community Action Agencies and Head Start programs in Florida. These programs help low income families become self-sufficient.
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First Name: Katrina
Last Name: Parker
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I work for KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit which empowers communities to create partnerships (amongst themselves, local businesses and, where/if possible, corporations) to spark positive, sustainable change through the building of safe, much-needed playgrounds. (Thankfully, we are included on the "100 Things You Can Do for Your Community..." poster!) I commend your organization and website for providing loads of invaluable information, tools and services which help improve communities all over the world. I also want to encourage guests, who are on the community-building journey, to consider including building new and/or restoring existing playgrounds as part of your plan. The benefits are unlimited! For playgrounds not only provide fun and healthy play opportunities for kids, they also serve as the center or pulse of communities -- especially when community residents play a hands-on role in the actual design and building of the playground. I wish everyone the best in your individual endeavors and invite you to call on KaBOOM! (www.kaboom.org) if we can be of service.
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First Name: Michael
Last Name: Cunningham
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I direct the operations of a health and human services consulting company.
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First Name: Judith
Last Name: West
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Deputy Director, City of Detroit, Department of Health Especially interested in performance measurement, community health assessment, access, collaboration & advocacy
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First Name: Wendy
Last Name: Cooper
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I am a consultant working primarily with rural communities in Wisconsin on health care issues.
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First Name: Jessica
Last Name: Gehin
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Health clinic nurse at Oklahoma Panhandle State University
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First Name: Treena
Last Name: Delormier
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I am working to prevent type 2 diabetes in a Aboriginal community
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First Name: Marian
Last Name: McNair
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Regional co-ordinator for the Canadian Liver Foundation in Alberta. I'm sure I will find this site extremely useful in my work. Thank you
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First Name: Doris M.
Last Name: Foster
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New Bedford Community Connections Coalition is a statewide Initiative funded by DSS. We have launched our Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative working collaboratively with public & private partnerships to improve conditions and quality of life factors in some of our City's most at-risk, economically depleted neighborhoods. We are reaching out through the community by Community Conversations (informational sessions) and organizing events designed to bring residents out of their homes to meet with other community members, and to bring community members into the neighborhoods and schools where they perhaps may not otherwise venture, or partner with.
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First Name: Roger
Last Name: Smith
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I'm about to explore your toolbox. We're a Community Development/ Capacity Building agency in the UK. We're at <www.adept.org.uk>
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First Name: Forrest
Last Name: Alton
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I am a program manager for a teen pregnancy prevention program in Georgetown County, SC.
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First Name: Jay
Last Name: Youtz
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PRO-ACT is a Fed grant that was awarded to the Bucks County Council to organize the recovery community so that we can have voice and advocate.
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First Name: Molly
Last Name: Cisco
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I am a disability rights activist
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First Name: abdirizak
Last Name: jama
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Director of African Refugee Social Services which dedicated to help refugees by providing various programs designed to ease their transitional process for assimilating and adjusting into their new country.
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First Name: margie
Last Name: harris
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R.N., M.P.H. Program assistant for the Illinois Comprehensive Cancer Control Program at the Illinois Department of Public Health
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First Name: Evelyn
Last Name: Benson
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CEO of Tulare Community Health Clinic. Primary and speciality care from birth until end of life. Federally Qualified Health Center. Incl. dental. Treat 4,000 pts per mo. Clinic opened Mar. '95 & treated 300 pts first month. Accelerating growth has kept us busy. We are now looking for ways to reach out into the community. Clinic was hospital based until Jul. '98. Nonprofit board purchased clinic.
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First Name: Anne
Last Name: Lang
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I am a public health physician and serve on the board of directors of a community center that is in the initial stages of development.
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First Name: Kenny
Last Name: Peetosutan
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I am interested to find out more about community health.
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First Name: karriann
Last Name: rizzieri
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Massage therapist and Certified Infant Massage Instuctor, I run a program for pregnant women, The REAL Touch Program-to teach and promote healthy touch. searching for funding to work with low-income and teen moms.
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First Name: Karriann
Last Name: Rizzieri
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www.AnimaMundiMassage.com
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First Name: Olivier
Last Name: Lemaitre
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WWF-Belgium is about to start a programme rela
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First Name: Olivier
Last Name: Lemaitre
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WWF-Belgium is about to start a new programme related to the development of 'sustainable communities'. This site provided extremely useful tools.
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First Name: Elaine
Last Name: Cole
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I am a Substance Abuse Counselor at Multicultural Community Development Service in Spring Lake. I am also in charge of writing grants and researching funding oportunities for MCDS. The goals of MCDS are to attract substance abusing women who are parenting into treatment and recovery, reduce the rate of relapse, improve physical health and physiological wellness, and to improve family, social, and economic functioning. I am presently seeking ways to fund the new family recovery site to pay for professional services on site. MCDS is a 5 year old agency and with limited funding has had a great deal of success in helping women and families achieve their goals. I would appreciate any assistance that you could give me in helping me to secure funding in our endeavors.
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First Name: LINDA
Last Name: SMITH
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I WOULD LIKE TO INFORM THE PEOPLE OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY AND THE NEIGHBORING COUNTIES OF A FREE OUTSIDE SHOW CALLED" SAY NO TO DRUGS NEIGHBORHOOD FESTIVAL". EVENT DATE IS MAY 20th, 2000 AT BIG ELEVEN LAKE ON 11th AND WASHINGTON AVE.IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. MONTEL PRODUCTIONS WILL FEATURE NEW RECORDING ARTISIS. IN HOPES OF A SAFER COMMUNITY, WE INVITE THE PUBLIC TO HELP IN KEEPING OUR COUMMUNITY SAFE.
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First Name: Barbara
Last Name: Ruhs, MS, RD
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Registered Dietitian who coordinates nutrition education activities for the MA Department of Education. This is a great resource!
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First Name: Jim
Last Name: Wann
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Interested in improving communities
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First Name: maritza
Last Name: castillo
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I am working in a "barrio". Could you help me in relation to popular methodology?
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First Name: maritza
Last Name: castillo
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I am working in a "barrio". I down load many of your pages. I will read them. I am thankfull. Could you help me in relation to popular methodology?
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First Name: Steven
Last Name: Kuntz
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Manager of Planning & Quality Assurance Macomb County Health Department
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First Name: nancy
Last Name: gerrity
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I am a public health nurse consultant working with a community health initiative in North Central Phila. I am in the process of setting up a nursing center delivering both public health services and primary care. I have worked with this particular community for about a year and have struggled to increase the partners, both community residents and other community based organizations. We are about to embark on a Healthy Start infant mortality reduction grant which should prove to be another opportunity to bring services in and enhance the assessts of this community.
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First Name: Alice
Last Name: Johnson
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Great web site! I am interested in developing links here for members of ACOSA (Association for Community Organization and Social Administration). We have a new web page: http://www.acosa.org I am the Treasurer and work in program development areas related to membership, webpage development, and other tasks in organizational development.
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First Name: Anne
Last Name: Drake
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Occupational Therapist with interest in health promotion and wellness issues. Currently doing a community development unit for a graduate diploma in health promotion. Site is superb. So much practical, well organised information which will be really helpful.
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First Name: Teshome / Mr/
Last Name: Regassa
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I am 43, student doning my MSc in Health education/health promotion in the University of Southampton.I have just started writing Dissertation on the Healthy Cities / Settings / Approach from the perspective of developing countries. I am an Ethiopian, will be back, when I finish my course, to my job in the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.
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First Name: nannette
Last Name: banks
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I am a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I'm a poet. I am in desperate need of communty writing projects that focus on community development!
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First Name: Susan
Last Name: Brown
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I'm looking for a model for a code of conduct for a non-profit community group, a Toastmasters club. We need guidelines for conduct for one person, along with consequences for violations. I haven't found anything on this in the Tool Box. Is there something available here? Thanks.
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First Name: mary
Last Name: Haynes
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We are just beginning a planning/zoning process in this small town. My daughter, a planner in California, told me about you.
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First Name: Elizabeth
Last Name: Flackl
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I HAVE READ MANY OF THE CHAPTERS FROM THE COMMUNITY TOOL BOX. I DEFINITELY NEEDED A DIVERSION FOR A PERIOD AND ENJOYED LEARNING NEW THINGS AS WELL AS HAVING SOME OF MY BELIEFS RE-INFORCED BY OTHER MORE INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE, E.G. THE AUTHORS.
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First Name: Kathy
Last Name: Hausman
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faculty member interested in furthering public policy relted to child health care, child welfare, preventing abuse and improving the life of children who are living in poverty with birth parents who provide no guidance or love for the child.
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First Name: Brian
Last Name: Jackson
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I coordinate the community health assessment and improvement procees for a local health dept. in Michigan.
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First Name: Eleni
Last Name: Digenis-Bury
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I am an Epidemiologist with the City of Fort Worth Public Health Department. The information on objectives and evaluation is very useful! It has aided me in explaining these topics to colleagues.
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First Name: Joe
Last Name: Dunn
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Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition for Community Services, a nonprofit organization of community organizers.
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First Name: Beth
Last Name: Abel
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Our agency, the Tangipahoa Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council, is a community-based non-profit agency seeking information on effective coalition building.
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First Name: Eynes
Last Name: Mendez
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This is something that everyone should know.<p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the last 12 years I have been studying the housing issue. I have found out that our nation's justice department held housing as a private, not a public, venture.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Housing in the City of New Orleans isn't. Our city government has taken housing as a public venture and has made it impossible for residents of the city to discuss housing with the Mayor.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The custom of law has people from inside distinct groups sitting in the positions of authority. We no longer have British people coming over here to sit in our governmental offices.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It was decided that this was not to our benefit. That is why we no longer have them here.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We also have people from inside the boundaries of our state and local units of governments (in the state of LA we have parishes, cities, districts and special districts) in the positions of government. No one from outside of those boundaries sits in those positions.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the way it was supposed to be with actions our national government wanted us to take, the elimination of slum, the construction of dwellings, and the stimulation of business. And the people living inside the baoundaries they outlined were person of low and moderate income.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Community development in the past resulted with groups of people eventually emerging as independent agencies of government. Community development results with clearly defined groups of people organized as independent social, economic, and political bodies.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The people outlined by federal law are not. The do not enjoy the protection of law that others enjoy.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Are there others out there who know this and are doing something along this way?
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First Name: Lynley
Last Name: Budinas
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I am attending medical school this fall and hoping to pursue an MPH. I have used this site on several occasions with my job in an inner city daycare.
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First Name: Christie
Last Name: Jones
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I am Director of the Lung Health Resource Center of the American Lung Association of Virginia -- the Lung Health Resource Center is a brand new initiative offering state of the art lung health programs to all Virginians. We've been seekding needs assessment models to determine our first round of lung health projects, and yours is the best we've seen yet! Thanks for making it so understandable!
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First Name: Dolores C.
Last Name: Calaf
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As the Community Relations Liaison for DMA/MassHealth, I have started a forum for Community Relations, Public Affairs, etc. practictioners from different fields of work who are interested in sharing resources and ideas for community partnerships opportunities particularly with culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Mass. This network is called Community Partnership Resources(CPR) Network. We meet once a month in different hosting organizations, and have worked in our 2000 agenda plan. How can I bring information on the network through your website? And what opportunities we have of working together in collaboration? We have about 60 non-profit, public government (state, fed, local) entities represented inthe group, ranging from hospitals to museums. My phone is 617-210-5318. Thanks, Dolores
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First Name: Jill
Last Name: Lusardi
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Grant Writer for the YMCA
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First Name: Lawrence
Last Name: Fossen
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4-H Program Coordinator in the University of California Cooperative Extension in Amador County, CA. Focus on youth development in the areas of speech & leadership skills and environmental education
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First Name: Jill
Last Name: Baroni
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I recently changed jobs and would like to remain on your mailing list at my new email address. Thanks.
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