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WORKSHOP: LEVERAGING Resources to Build Communities Premise: The idea is to be a catalyst, not a banker. The method is to invest early in good ideas — ideas that attract partners and investors so the effort grows to meaningful scale. KEY TAKE-AWAY: LEVERAGING RESOURCES MEANS MORE THAN JUST MONEY. It’s equally important to leverage the commitment of a small group of people into an organizing strategy and, when needed, a negotiating tool, as when Earnest Gates helped organize his West Side community to fight the proposed Bears stadium and to win protections for the community when the United Center stadium was built. Responding to a question about how South Side communities should pursue jobs and development plans if Chicago wins its bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games: KEY TAKE-AWAY: FUNDERS HAVE MORE TO CONTRIBUTE THAN MONEY. They can help by making connections, finding and using data, and reaching the media. They can also put you in touch with other grantees as potential partners. On the kind of leveraging funders like to see most: “ We really, really like it when you collaborate with other organizations we fund.” MARIA HIBBS, executive director, Partnership for New Communities “ Get it, enforceable, in writing, on the front end. Otherwise, you’re dead in the water.” EARNEST GATES, executive director, Near West Side Community Development Corp. 14
Relating the story of a bank that made loans to otherwise ineligible borrowers after a foundation agreed to guarantee them: “ Find a friendly bank. Hundreds of people avoided payday loans.” Moderator MARY LARAIA, formerly a vice-president at LaSalle Bank, now with the Aspen Institute KEY TAKE-AWAY: QUALITY INFORMATION AND DATA CAN BE LEVERAGED INTO ACTION. Describing how a Sinai Urban Health Institute study about asthma and other diseases in Humboldt Park led to an NCP seed grant for a Community of Wellness program: “ Information is power. Use data and the community to leverage interest, involvement and money … We leveraged data into a community coalition around health.” MIGUEL PALACIO, associate executive director of Association House of Chicago The small start has leveraged $1.5 million in health-related projects. 15
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Page 8 and 9: WORKSHOP: ENGAGEMENT Organizing for
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Page 16 and 17: WORKSHOP: PLANNING Coming Together
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Page 26 and 27: ROLL CALL OF THE HEROES The heroes
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Page 30 and 31: DAY TWO GETTING INTO THE NITTY GRIT
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Page 41 and 42: CALL TO ACTION “WE WILL!” Three
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