MotiveSpace Development Glossary
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Title: | MotiveSpace Development Glossary | |
| Source: | MotiveSpace Coalition | ||
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June Neighbors Salon: Asset Based Community Development & Placemaking: a perfect recipe for Barnraising?
MotiveSpace’s fifth Neighbors Salon is coming up next month on Friday, June 4th from 4:00 – 6:00.
This month we’re holding the space for a discussion on the intersections between Asset Based Community Development and Place Making. We’ll talk high-level about the principles and goals of each, and then opening the conversation to a broad discussion on how the tactics utilized by practitioners in both fields can be combined to their mutual benefit.
In 1993 John Kretzman and John McKnight published Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets. Since that time an Asset Based Approach to community development has had a profound influence on practitioners from academic, public policy, and grassroots organizing circles.
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Learning from Portland’s Cohousing: Background Reading and Considerations
Some of the questions we’ll be talking over at next month’s Salon:
- What is cohousing– how is it different than a commune, an eco-village, or an intentional community?
- What dialogue strategies do cohousing groups use, to facilitate group process? How has the typical
- What early-stage strategies do cohousing groups use to build trust between members?
- How can the strategies we learn from Cohousing be applied to non-residential situations? That is, how can groups learn from cohousing in order to form new food coop, co-working spaces, or other community facilities?
- What are some specific tools that cohousing groups use to make decisions?
- How can all Portland neighborhoods be designed to be more like cohousing?
- What are the pros & cons of senior co-housing projects?
- Can the cooperative model help lower income folks get into co-housing communities?
- How many co-housing projects embody the co-op legal model?
Bring your questions and ideas on May 7th! You can read up on the 6 defining characteristics of Cohousing here. This information is reprinted from the Cohousing US website at www.cohousing.org/.
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Advisor Judith Mowry
Judith Mowry is the Effective Engagement Solutions program coordinator for the City of Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement, and a founding member of Portland new Office of Equity. Judith is a nationally recognized mediator, facilitator and process design professional, working for the last 16 years on issues regarding community development, property development and change in communities.
Director and Board Chair Alan Brickley
Alan has over 40 years of experience as a real estate attorney in the Portland Metropolitan area, after receiving his a JD from Northeastern College of Law, and an MBA from the University of Oregon. He is currently Associate Counsel with the First American Title Company, and a well-known professor in the PSU Real Estate Department. Among his many accomplishments, Alan has served as President of the Oregon Land Title Association, and served as Mayor of West Linn for 2 terms.
Alan is currently busy researching how projects like the Barn can be true Community Assets for their neighborhood.
Reflection on June Salon: Asset Based Community Development
MotiveSpace was honored to have Mike Vander Veen join us in June for a discussion on Asset Based Community Development and placeMaking. Mike is a local expert in the Asset Based approach to community development, which emphasizes a focus on the strengths and skills within a community, instead of its needs and deficiencies. We had representatives from over a dozen of the grassroots project teams (Seed Teams) we’ve been working with, and shared a lot of strong ideas about how team members can use the ABCD approach to reach out to their neighbors and supporters.
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Executive Director Sara Garrett
Sara Garrett serves as MotiveSpace’s Executive Director, combining 12 years experience working with developers, architects, and building-related nonprofits throughout Portland. Sara was a leader in the conversations throughout 2008 which eventually led to MotiveSpace, after noting for some years that Portland’s development community didn’t seem to have the real capacity to support nonprofit or community benefit projects. These days Sara is mainly focused on the social bottom line of development, but her original focus was environmental. Sara received her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Physics and Building Science from Portland State University, and was trained as an Architect at the University of Toronto.
Directors and Board Secretary Mary Bedard
Mary Bedard is MotiveSpace’s Board Secretary and wears many hats around Portland, serving as the Chair of the Friends of Portland Community Gardens, and an active voice on the Food Policy Council for Multnomah County. Mary is a licensed Landscape Architect and Site Planner, with specialized experienced in community development, planning, and facilitation. Mary’s experience entails over 40 years of work encompassing public and private master planning, community development, and landscape design projects of varying scales and budgets.
Director Jim Newcomer
Jim has a broad base of experience in international and locally-focused development strategies, bringing an array of talents to the MotiveSpace Board. Dr. Newcomer holds a Doctorate in Political Science from Stanford University, as well as Masters’ degrees in Organizational Development from Antioch University, and International Relations at Columbia University. He taught International Politics at a number of universities including the University of Oregon, before moving to the business world in Portland in the 80′s.
Jim has served in several nonprofit and for-profit executive positions, including service as the Executive Director of the Washington State Recycling Association, and as a principle in the Wind Bridge Corporation. Since retiring Jim has served as a consultant in sustainable corporate development strategy, and stays active with numerous nonprofit and community based organizations throughout Portland. Jim’s 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren live long distances from Portland, and he gathers them together as often as he can.