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The Barn-Raising concept The toolkit title refers to the practice of barn-raising in frontier North American agricultural communities in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries (and still today in Amish and Mennonite communities). The practice involves local citizens pulling together to construct buildings that, in addition to their economic (agricultural) role, also often served as the focal point for communal celebrations. The barn-raising of old was hard work but was also a highly social affair. Like the communal barns of the frontier United States, our libraries, parks, recreation centers, and art museums serve as key anchors to communal, social, and cultural life. In the new economic frontier of public spending cuts, government has a much less dominant role in overseeing the funding, managing, and delivery of community and civic assets. Instead, citizens, foundations, non-profits, and businesses are asked to pull together to do more. Figure 1: An example of North American barn-raising from the early 20 th century (source: Alexander W. Galbraith/Wikimedia Commons) 7 | The New Barn-Raising
The “New Barn-Raising” refers to the raising of three things: • awareness around the benefits of assets; • money to support the assets’ capital and running costs; and • help from volunteers to deliver asset-related services and to raise awareness and money. It is for this reason that awareness, money, and help form the three main sections of the toolkit. The New Barn-Raising is not about civil society being asked to single-handedly sustain assets nor is it to naively suggest that substantial spending cuts can simply be “made good” by such activity. It is instead to highlight the benefits of involving both civil society and government, with the exact balance being determined by whatever level of provision residents of a particular community or city feel comfortable with. Key messages in the toolkit The case study areas have not escaped concerns around public and private spending constraints and have not found a magic bullet to address these. However, they have offered lots of reasons for hope. The key messages in the toolkit are that: • on awareness, asset support groups can best make the case for assets continuously and collectively rather than simply pursuing 11 th hour protests against cuts. The asset offer should also be marketed to the public; • on funding, there are many mechanisms available to U.S. local government/voters to support assets, and there are benefits for assets and wider society of support also coming from communities, business, and charitable foundations; • on help, there is the potential, as yet not fully explored, for volunteers to improve the quality and attractiveness of assets (and, again, deliver benefits for wider society). There are some possibilities to fill jobs that have had their funding cut but there are various limits on what volunteers can do. The following sections outline these three themes more fully. Summaries | 8
Page 1 and 2: THE NEW BARN-RAISING A toolkit for
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Page 23 and 24: INTRODUCTION This toolkit is direct
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Page 27 and 28: RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT YOUR ASSETS
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This is an ongoing map that can be
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Figure 2.24: Baltimore’s Fluid Mo
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As part of Hockey Weekend Across Am
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Figure 2.29: Poster for the 6th Ann
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Figure 2.30: Frogtown Gardens raise
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Table 3.1: Taxes used to raise fund
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Box 3.1: Check-list of questions to
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Your asset managers need to use mon
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Table 3.4: Efficiency measures used
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Reductions in staff, asset numbers
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Table 3.5: Examples of charges comm
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Figure 3.4: Free entry for some gro
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Incentivize and support charging Wh
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You can rent space in assets to gen
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Your local government can secure re
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Box 3.4: Public-Private Partnership
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• Hand over a building that is an
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Community non-profits could be allo
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You can raise money and awareness b
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Figure 3.12: A memorial bench sold
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Figure 3.14: The annual and very po
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Elderly constant givers are a good
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Wealthier neighborhoods still have
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Young professional asset-supporter
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Figure 3.18: a potential fundee add
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Box 3.6: Getting high-net-worth ind
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Figure 3.20: A Detroit4Detroit webp
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Figure 3.21: Mowtown - example of a
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The barn-raising spirit is also see
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Charitable Foundations can add to y
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Table 3.15: Asset-related roles tha
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Encourage foundations to make their
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Help non-profit asset support organ
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Certainly, businesses have been an
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Table 3.20: Examples of mutually be
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Several factors can help you in dev
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Having co-operatives in your busine
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Box 3.12: Secrets of their success
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Table 3.24: Encouraging customer gi
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Table 3.25: Comparing the fee and a
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RAISING HELP FOR YOUR ASSET The men
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Figure 4.1: User input — resident
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When resources for paid staff, whet
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There are physical/logistical reaso
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There is a range of mechanisms for
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The measures have been largely succ
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Figure 4.5: Inside the Baltimore Co
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Table 4.5: Understanding the busine
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Volunteer managers and non-profits
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There are some key practical tips t
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There are a range of measures you c
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As with donors of money and other r
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Table 4.9 outlines a range of natio
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Where does the New Barn Raising con
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APPENDIX The following section was
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If you decide that you do want to s
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City of Saint Paul (2010), Transfor
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Morrish, R. and Brown, C. (2000), P
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CGAP (2012), “Comparing U.S. and
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Sargeant, A. and Shang, J. (2010),
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS German Marshall Fu
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Rademacher, Jolyn * Rey, Vernon * R
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Roberson, Jr., Dalton * Russ, Cathl
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Reierson, Gary * Rhodes, Carleen *
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Iyer, Seema Jacob France Institute
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Referees for, and support with, the
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