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Learn to facilitate successful meetings
Published on January 24, 2014
Facilitative Leadership is a three-day active learning workshop designed to build and strengthen the skills and personal confidence necessary to lead and facilitate productive meetings. -
Boyne City uses design charrette to help reimagine a public facility
Published on January 24, 2014
Design charrettes are an excellent way to engage community members in a design challenge, even one involving a single community structure. -
Get to root causes: Address poor health outcomes through a health equity lens
Published on January 24, 2014
Understanding health equity can help educators and practitioners address root causes of negative health outcomes. -
Rethinking neighborhood commercial development
Published on January 24, 2014
Business placement is an important activity when trying to create vibrant, thriving business districts, corridors and nodes. Successful communities will be those that creatively rethink the mix and location of neighborhood commercial development. -
Michigan wool at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games
Published on January 23, 2014
How a sheep farm that started as a 4-H project sourced wool to Ralph Lauren for closing ceremony athlete sweaters. -
Strategies to reach consensus on controversial wind energy farms: Part two
Published on January 21, 2014
Large wind energy farms can be very controversial. But in some communities they are not. This is the second of two articles exploring some of the reasons why. -
Not all proposed large wind energy farms are controversial and there may be reasons why: Part one
Published on January 21, 2014
Large wind energy farms can be very controversial. But in some communities they are not. This is the first of two articles exploring some of the reasons why. -
Eight steps to better retail areas
Published on January 21, 2014
New tool identifies eight concepts to create better retail areas and create place in your community. -
Businesses with multiple owners should have an operating agreement and valuation tactic
Published on January 20, 2014
Problems arise when times are tough. -
The Grand Rapids Downtown Market offers a variety of ways to expand your local food knowledge
Published on January 19, 2014
Bacon, breakfast and beer are just a few of the topics in this diverse menu of workshops.