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• Third party management of city-owned assets. What are jobs and working conditions like compared to<br />
when cities managed the assets?<br />
• Uneven development. How do we improve poor areas’ ability to participate in the New Barn-Raising and<br />
how do we ensure that requiring developments in wealthy areas to fund assets (in particular parks) does<br />
not then lead to these becoming treated like private enclaves for the wealthy?<br />
• Volunteering. How much more can be done with volunteers to reach into communities in order to help<br />
promote assets and to provide and secure feedback on the quality of the asset offer. There also needs to<br />
be fine-grained discussions around exactly how different asset managers identify their skills needs and<br />
then meet some of these through use of volunteers. Especially useful would be diagrams that mapped out<br />
common tasks and the roles that volunteers could typically fill.<br />
This research and knowledge exchange can take place through some combination of:<br />
• Meeting. Conferences, TED-style talks (the videos of which can also be accessed online), and workshops<br />
for the national asset umbrella groups to share their advocacy tips.<br />
• Online networks. Online discussions and Pinterest and YouTube/Vimeo sharing of impressive visuals and<br />
videos for marketing the benefits of assets and of impressive assets.<br />
• Research. Networks of academics that perhaps work on different types of assets but maybe do not<br />
collaborate with one another and literature reviews or online literature repositories.<br />
• Training. Workshops where expert practitioners pass on knowledge, a fellows program where younger and<br />
mid-career individuals spend time in a combination of practice and networked learning, and an online<br />
university course on assets.<br />
What do you think should happen now? What do you make of the toolkit? Are there other great case studies?<br />
Please let me know — garethpotts@newbarnraising.com.<br />
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