Announcing the 2012 All-America City Award Video Contest!
Category: All-America City Awards
May 4, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Mark your calendars for the 2012 All-America City Awards!
Time to make your travel arrangements for the Campaign for Grade Level Reading Network and All-America City Awards, June 30, 2012-July 2, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton St. in downtown Denver, Colorado.
The special room rate is $152, single or double occupancy (plus state and local fees). Triple occupancy rates are also available. To get this discounted rate, please make your hotel arrangements through Connections Housing, the National Civic League’s hotel liaison (Link here).
If you want help in registering by phone or for your group, feel free to contact: Rusty Farmer, Connections Housing at 404.842.0000 or rusty@connectionshousing.com
You can also get this discounted rate for sleeping rooms if you want to arrive early or stay beyond the meeting dates. For ground transportation from Denver International Airport and entertainment/restaurant options while you are in Denver link here. To find out about hotel amenities link here.
To keep costs low for participants, there will be no event registration fee. National Civic League (with partners) is raising funds to pay for the meals and other meeting costs.
Book your airline reservations soon to get the lowest rates and to avoid the holiday travel crunch.
March 21, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Online Filing System for The Grade-Level Reading All-America City Award
By Ron Fairchild
Today we are excited to announce that the Community Solutions Action Plan (CSAP) online filing system is now open. (Navigate to the online filing system by clicking the link above or by typing this website address into your browser:https://www.wizehive.com/appform/login/aacapp2012)
After logging in, you will have the option to either upload your application as a file or to write the application in the text fields. Both Microsoft Word and PDF files are acceptable formats for uploaded documents. If you decide to complete the application by completing the text fields, you may do so over a couple of days.
The online filing system will save your content and will not time out. Please remember that all CSAPs should be filed by no later than 11 PM PST on March 12, 2012.
Also, please plan on joining us for our next regularly scheduled webinar this Thursday at, March 8, from 2 to 3:30 pm East. If you haven’t done so already, please click on this link to register.
The focus of this webinar will be on the CSAP follow-up and peer review process. We’ll also discuss our plans for the upcoming meeting of the national network in Denver, CO.
March 5, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Mayor of Lakewood, Colorado’s State of the City Address
During his state of the city speech last week, Mayor Bob Murphy of Lakewood, Colorado, a 2011 All-America City, spoke of the impressive success the city has achieved in recent years—on the economic front, in transit-oriented planning and community amenities.
Equally impressive, though, was the mayor’s willingness to ask: “What can we all do, together, to make life better for all the residents of this community?”
Obviously, we liked the next part:
“The answer, I think, starts with embracing and enhancing the very values that make us an All-America City. The answer lies within taking that great foundation of community we have here and building upon it, neighbor-by-neighbor, block-by-block, with the help of businesses, schools, nonprofits and faith-based organizations – all the sectors whose contributions brought us this prestigious award.”
The mayor goes on to talk about civic engagement, collaboration, innovation and community building. This is what we hope happens when communities win the award, that they will use it not just to celebrate past victories, but think about how they can use it to move forward.
Link here to read the full transcript of Mayor Murphy’s address.
Or watch here:
March 5, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Final blog time for State of the Re:Union
By Mike McGrath
For the past year, I have been contributing guest blogs about AAC for the State of the Re:Union website. SOTRU is changing its online format to focus more on podcasts, so I won’t be guest-blogging there anymore, but here is my farewell piece, an item about a Hawaiian community that won the AAC in 1985.
It’s an interesting story. Link here.
I would like to thank Al and the folks at SOTRU for the opportunity to share stories from past and present All-America Cities and wish them the best for their future endeavors in radio and new media.
March 1, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Special National Civic Review Issue on Grade Level Reading
The special NCR issue on grade-level reading is now available. Here are a few of the articles:
February 2, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
March 12 Filing date for All-American City Grade-Level Reading Awards
A Message from Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading:
Last October, more than 160 across the country submitted a letters of intent to participate in the 2012 All-America City Award for Grade-Level Reading and to join the Grade-Level Reading Network of Leading Communities. Civic leaders in most of the communities are now hard at work developing their Community Solutions Action Plans (CSAPs) to respond to three major challenges: too many children not ready for school and too far behind to catch up; too many children missing too many days of school and too much instructional time; and too many children losing ground over the summer months and returning to school in September further behind than when they left in June.
March 12 is the filing date for the CSAP. If your community was among the more than 160 that filed a Letter of Intent, this may be the time to check in with your local team leader. You can:
- Support, encourage, and where necessary nudge the process. Let the Team Leader and her/his team know that participating the Network is important to you.
- Volunteer to help on the task forces and workgroups charged with data gathering, program mapping, and consensus building.
- Monitor progress, nudge, and pitch in. The CSAPs are due on March 12. How is your city coming along?
February 1, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
All-America City Quilt Welcomed to Lakewood
Lakewood, Colorado rolled out the red carpet for the arrival of the All-America City Quilt this week. In fact, the quilt was given a police escort.
NCL President Gloria Rubio-Cortés was on hand to congratulate Mayor Bob Murphy and a group of community leaders.
The quilt has been making rounds of cities that were finalists in the 2011 All-America City Awards. Lakewood was named a 2011 All-America City last June at an award ceremony and celebrqation in Kansas City, Missouri.
January 4, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Join or Renew Your Membership in the National Civic League
Gloria Rubio-Cortés
By Gloria Rubio-Cortés
Our new administrative fellow, Cheryl Jacobs, is reaching out to past members and others to renew or join the National Civic League. You can pull up a copy of our membership form by clicking here.
As a member or contributor to NCL, you join a national network of doers and thinkers—community leaders, elected and appointed officials, educators, nonprofit and business leaders—and interact through social media. You get the latest reports on community building techniques and programs for building civic engagement and solving community problems with a subscription to NCL’s quarterly journal, National Civic Review.
Your support is critical to people who are consistently improving their communities with the assistance of NCL’s programs and guides/publications. We depend on you to be able to help people be problem solvers.
NCL Admin Fellow Cheryl Jacobs
NCL members and donors are important to us. We invite you to stay involved, to support these efforts, to build our nation’s civic infrastructure, and to strengthen our democracy. Knowing that it is a difficult time for everyone, NCL has kept its membership fees affordable.
Please renew your membership or make a donation by completing the attached form and mailing your check or allowing us to charge your credit card. Or go to our Web site www.ncl.org and make a tax-deductible contribution to NCL.
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