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Program Title |
Date(s) of Event |
Scope/Description/Outcomes |
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PEER-TO-PEER Training Program |
Ongoing |
Audience:
LDD Staff, Directors, Board Members
Purpose:
To provide travel reimbursements to Local Development Districts to who visit their peers in order to further their knowledge and improve their capacity in various programs and topics of interest to our organizations and our members. Pre-approval Required! |
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LEED Certification/
Energy Efficiency Training for LDD Program Staff
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August 16-17
Charleston, WV
April 21-22
Kingsport, TN |
Audience:
LDD Staff
Purpose:
To provide training for US Green Building Council LEED Green Associate credential for LDD staff involved in project development and grant packaging.
Proposed Session Topics/Activities:
US Green Building Council LEED Green Associate training – energy efficient / environmentally sustainable building design and development. Topics include:
· Introduction to green building principles and the fundamentals of the LEED Rating System.
· Climate change and building impacts;
· Motivators for green building;
· Conventional versus integrative approaches - and the associated benefits - to building design, construction and operations.
Participants will leave this course with a basic understanding of the intent, concepts and terms for each LEED credit category, as well as green building best practices, regulations and incentives. |
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2010 GIS Users Group Conference |
April 28-29, 2010
Pittsburgh, PA |
Audience:
Geographic Information System (GIS) Program Managers, Directors, and Technicians, federal and state agency representatives
Purpose:
Audience will be exposed to GIS Best Practices, network with peers, and assist in the creation of the GIS USERS GROUP section of the DDAA Website (www.ddaa-ldd.org)
Proposed Session Topics/Activities:
· ‘How Did you Fund It?” – (highlighting LDDs with ‘interesting’ or ‘unusual’ Data Sets and the mechanism for funding/gathering that information)
· LDD Data Set Inventory Viewer unveiled – Tuesday Morning – Facilitated Conversation about next steps for the Viewer and the group
· GIS and Transportation Planning |
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Innovative Finance Retreat |
5/2/2010 –
5/4/2010
New York |
Audience:
Convene innovative leaders in small business finance and business development finance (Revolving Loan Fund Experts, Retired Bankers, LDD Executive Directors, etc.) who are innovative and leaders in small business finance and business development
Purpose:
Participants will strategize ways to improve existing finance mechanisms and development new, innovative, ground breaking business development finance programs
Proposed Session Topics/Activities:
· What is working/not working? What is missing?
· How do we better meet the needs of small businesses in rural and small communities
· How to develop an entrepreneurial culture
· Roles of LDDs to increase capacity of local small businesses |
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Rural Transportation Peer Learning Conference |
10/20/2010 –
10/22/2010
St. Louis, MO |
Audience:
Transportation planners, economic development professionals, local officials, state agency representatives and stakeholders from rural and small metropolitan areas across the nation
Purpose:
Audience will be exposed to new and noteworthy practices related to transportation, network with peers, and hear emerging issues in transportation planning.
Proposed Session Topics/Activities:
· Transportation and economic development
· Land use and livable communities
· Climate change
· Freight and intermodal transportation |
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Regional Council Self-Assessment and Resource Toolkit Update |
Ongoing |
Audience:
Executive Directors and Board Members of Regional Councils.
Purpose:
Assist Executive Directors of regional councils, along with policy board members, in conducting basic organizational analysis.
Proposed Session Topics/Activities:
· Update content
· Create a web-based, interactive version of the toolkit, to be placed on the DDAA Website |