community engagementand capacity building cultural planning
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Presentation delivered by Ernie Ginsler, Regional Consultant, Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition at November 27 2008 "Economies in Transition" forum in Chatham, Ontario.TRANSCRIPT
Community Engagementand Capacity Buildingin Cultural Planning
Presented by: Ernie Ginsler, Regional Consultant
Ontario Healthy Communities CoalitionNovember 27, 2008
The three largest nonprofit theatre companies in
Canada are located in rural Ontario
GUY DIXON, From Saturday's Globe and Mail, October 17, 2008 at 9:04 PM EDT (edited exerpt)
…(s)ays Stratford Festival general director Antoni Cimolino, Stratford was in serious economic trouble a half-century ago. Stratford's economy had been centred on the repair of steam engines and on furniture manufacturing. When those industries went into decline, it was the now-renowned festival that saved the town.
Levels of Working Together
Full Collaboration
Coalition
Partnership
Alliance
Network • Com
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Levels of working together
1. Networking– Dialogue– Clearinghouse– Create base of support
2. Cooperation or alliance– Match needs and coordinate– Limit duplication– Ensure tasks are done
3. Coordination or partnership– Share resources to address issues– Merge resource base to create
something new
4. Coalition– Share ideas and pull resources from
existing systems– Develop extended commitment
Levels of working together
5. Collaboration– Accomplish shared vision and impact
benchmarks– Build interdependent systems to
address issues and opportunities
Levels of working together
Capacity
• Individual
• Organization
al
• Community
The cultural engagement/ capacity universe
Community
Education
Business
Capacity building process
Identify planning group
Inventory and mapping
Analysis and vision
Priorities and strategies
Launch, evaluate, revise
Take the process to the community
• Community centres• Libraries• Business groups• Service clubs• Unions• Faith groups• Historical groups• Post-secondary
institutions
• Environment groups
• Agricultural groups• Schools• Heritage groups• Arts groups• Ethno-cultural
groups
Community Consultation vs. Community
Engagement
Project Ideas Design Implement Sustain
Project Ideas Design Implement Sustain
Consultation
Engagement
Example 1
Example 2
Source: Museum Libraries Archives Council
Community engagement tools
• Balloon ride– Floating over the community in 10
years; what does it look like?• Draw a group picture
– On a flip-chart draw a representation of a vibrant arts/culture/heritage community in 10 years
• Write a news item 10 years out– “It’s the 10th anniversary of the
beginning of…
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