[Dialogue] FW: OCS 21st Century Model to Address Poverty

Wed Apr 26 18:36:04 EDT 2006

Has anyone ever heard of the 'Future Search' folk?  Their website is listed
below: http://www.futuresearch.net/prosperouscommunities/index.cfm

This looks like a process that ICA facilitators might have linked into with
the Office of Community Services, but it's enough of a variant not to have
been.  I'm curious if anyone's run into them.

Bill Schlesinger
Project Vida
3607 Rivera Ave
El Paso, TX 79905
(915) 533-7057 x 207
(915) 490-6148 mobile
(915) 533-7158 fax
pvida at sbcglobal.net

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From: Arnie.Anderson at state.mn.us [mailto:Arnie.Anderson at state.mn.us] On
Behalf Of MacDonald Stacks
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:30 PM
To: ENG at cob-pop.itg.state.mn.us
Subject: RE: OCS 21st Century Model to Address Poverty

Out here in the hinterlands, we sometimes forget or don't realize that there
are plenty of people working on our issues in Washington and other places.
While we are frustrated that community action work seems to get short shrift
from the OMB folks, we need to realize that there are still people and
organizations working to get the get the truth out about our local work.
Some of these folks are working in the current administration, others are at
various think tanks and research organizations throughout the country.

Because of grant restrictions or concern that they may become a target of
those who are opposed to our work, many of these folks are unable to share
their efforts with us in a public forum like this listserve.  For all of you
who are still "laboring in the vineyards" on our behalf, thank you!
Somehow, you need to get the word out on the good work you are doing!

MacDonald Stacks

mhstacks at verizon.net

717 393-3068

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From: Arnie.Anderson at state.mn.us [mailto:Arnie.Anderson at state.mn.us] On
Behalf Of Jim Masters
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 5:20 PM
To: ENG at cob-pop.itg.state.mn.us
Subject: Re: OCS 21st Century Model to Address Poverty

Yes Nancy is continuing that work.

See their website at:

Just go to the main Future Search site 

www.futuresearch.net

and click on the PCPN link at the bottom 
or you can just directly to the Prosperous Communities site at:

http://www.futuresearch.net/prosperouscommunities/index.cfm

James I. "Jim" Masters
Idea Generator
Center for Community Futures
www.cencomfut.com
PO Box 5309   Berkeley, CA  94705
PH: 510.339.3801
FAX: 510.339.3803

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From: MacDonald <mailto:mhstacks at verizon.net>  Stacks 

To: ENG at cob-pop.itg.state.mn.us 

Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:38 PM

Subject: OCS 21st Century Model to Address Poverty

It appears there is some life in the OCS working groups after all.  I
received this from one of the participating groups.

MacDonald Stacks

mhstacks at verizon.net

717 393-3068

April 24, 2006

Greetings, OCS 21st Century 2004 Working Session participants!

It has been a year since the official ending of the Office of Community 
Services 21st Century Model to Address Poverty project, which, with 
your participation, framed numerous possible next steps on the way to 
more effective approaches to poverty.  Since the end of the project, I 
have been busy trying to make one of those possibilities a reality and 
I am happy to let you know that Prosperous Communities, Prosperous 
Nation (PCPN) is now launching.  I invite you to visit the web site at 
http://www.futuresearch.net/prosperouscommunities/index.cfm.  I hope 
that you will become involved in the continuing work of PCPN and with 
the Future Search Network (FSN), where PCPN lives and without which it 
would not exist.

For those of you who don't know, the FSN co-Directors, Marvin Weisbord 
and Sandra Janoff, were participants in the Community-Based Solutions 
working session that convened as part of the OCS project in the fall of 
2004.  It was then that the glimmer of what would become PCPN emerged.  
The launch of PCPN is an example of the momentum that can be created by 
convening a diverse group of people toward a common goal in a 
collaborative environment.  As you will discover at the web site, this 
notion is the foundation of the PCPN program.

While the launch is an important step, it is only the beginning and it 
is simply the map.not the territory.  It is merely the mechanism by 
which the real work gets done.  For that real work, we need you; we 
need all of us. For the work we started in 2004 to continue via the 
PCPN program, we need:
.    Leaders like you willing bring their communities into the program 
that convenes the 'whole system' in planning and action to create 
prosperous conditions for all residents.
.    People like you from the 'whole system' participating in each of the 
community sessions.
.    People like you who have influence in local, state, or Federal 
government who can garner interest so that the community-based work of 
the program can be rolled up to national change.
.    Organizations like the ones in which you work that can sponsor this 
work generally or a specific community's participation by providing 
financial or other resources.
.    People like you with the expertise to help communities implement the 
plans they create as part of the PCPN program.
.    A network of national organizations willing to lead their particular 
sector-as part of the whole system-into the national effort by 
encouraging their constituencies to participate.

I would love to hear from you.  You can reach me at 
nancy at futuresearch.net or at 540.937.4897.

Best,
Nancy

Nancy Polend
Program Director
Prosperous Communities, Prosperous Nation
540.937.4897

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