Guestbook Entries

I am a teacher of community health nursing and practice clinically at a prenatal clinic.

Executive Director for a Community Action Agency which covers the Southwestern area of Vermont. Our purpose is to help people help themselves in achieving self-sufficiency and self-reliance to remove the barriers that cause poverty.

I am a nurse educator who has much interest in working with grassroots nonprofit organizations that engage in activities to make a difference in the lives of the underserved in local communities. I assist organizations with program design and implementation, grant writing, and general operating issues.

I'm active in 2 communities organizing community collaboratives to promote positive families and kids.

After working in community health in West Africa, finding myself in the US, supporting NGO work in community health in developing countries... first discovery of this site. Interesting, stimulating and exciting; I'll keep checking it out. Good luck!

Within the last few years, growth management has become a focal point for public and private concerns. We believe that intelligent growth starts with the understanding that all jurisdictions within a region, county, or metropolitan area are inexorably linked. The problems associated with rapid growth in one part of a state, county or city and the challenges facing decaying urban areas, first ring suburbs and resource-poor rural areas are opposite sides of the same coin. We think that solutions start with education and good informational sources, sharing the successes and failures of other parts of the country. To this end, we offer lectures in main street revitalization, downtown and brownfield redevelopment, neighborhood planning and infill techniques, suburban 'urbanization', sustainable greenfield development and town-making principles, generally at minimal or no charge. The partners of Lennertz Coyle & Associates are nationally recognized leaders in urban design and town planning. As charter members of the Congress for New Urbanist (CNU) and co-host of the CNU 2000 Congress in Portland, OR (June 15-18), the firm is dedicated to sharing our experiences with planning and development agencies, public officials and organizations involved in both sides of growth management. Call Steve Coyle at 503-228-9240 or Email steve@lcaarchitects.com www.lcaarchitects.com

I work with low income non custodial fathers. our goal is to help them to be positively involved in the lives of their child/ren.

Completed BSN 5 years ago after acquiring MEd. Committed to primary care partnerships and comprehensive school health as a method of great promise to meet the health care and learning needs of children in school and their families.

Director of Planning for a 10 hospital system in Alabama. Interested in partnering with other organizations to fund community health improvement programs, i.e., education, cancer and cardiovascular disease screening and detection services.

Clinical nursing instructor, home health nurse and quality assurance review nurse.

Until recently I was executive director of a traditional social service agency owned by a large Catholic health system. Now, at the initiative of our local mayor, I plan to start a center to encourage and resource local efforts to implement citizen-led asset-based community development in my area of Southeastern Indiana.

I work for a local authority in S. Wales in an ex-mining community my job includes capacity building and working with other agencies who work with children and young people trying to tie everything together with communities that care operating system is there anyone else online who works with this system?

My name is Brian Kelly, I am the director of Re-Gen Development Foundation, A community business providing training and technical assistance to grass roots community organisations in Ireland. I am in the process of designing a similar project to the Toolbox which I have called The Community Development Planner's Assessment Kit- I commend you on this valuable piece of work. Keep-up the good work. BK

i AM A Graduate nursing student. i am doing research on healthy people 2010 section 7 the community.

I am on the faculty of the University of Kentucky Center for Rural Health. Thanks for your support and advice about our asthma grant proposal.

I work with a grant that is exploring how volunteering occurs in low-income communities, and the types of initiatives that are organized by residents to strengthen their neighborhoods. Currently, I am developing a leadership development training for grassroots leaders to mobilize members into volunteer neighborhood efforts.

Training consultant in community development and attached to the Community Agents of Change team at University of Wales College Newport.

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.

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.