The NAACP, the Tucson Southern Arizona Black Chamber of Commerce and the Tucson Urban League will be co-sponsoring The Round Table on Community Change: Developing Strategic and Visionary Leadership. The Round Table on Community Change will be held on July 20, 2010 from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. at Dunbar School, 325 West 2nd Street, Tucson Arizona.
The Tucson Urban League Roundtable on Community Change is modeled after the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change. The Tucson Urban League Roundtable on Community Change focuses on the issues and challenges communities face and seeks out solutions and actions to advance and sustain the health and well being of individuals, families, and neighborhoods.
The Round Table on Community Change is a renewed obligation to our promise to the community, which is at the core of all three of the sponsoring organization's missions, which includes: active, effective engagement with its constituents, funders, partners, staff, and volunteers. The NAACP, the Tucson Southern Arizona Black Chamber of Commerce and the Tucson Urban League invites and empowers all constituencies of the Southern Arizona to join our efforts to collaborate with a broad spectrum of community, academic, government and business partners, to adopt an entrepreneurial approach to our programs, services, and solutions and to demonstrate flexibility in an ever-changing socio-economic environment.
The Round Table on Community Change aims to develop and impart strategies for addressing structural racism through seminars with practitioners within the community building and development field, and in other sectors, such as government, philanthropy, youth-serving organizations, media outlets, departments of education, human services, economics, immigration, justice, housing, primary and secondary educational institutions, universities and colleges, corporations and small businesses.
The Roundtable on Community Change focuses on the problems of distressed communities and seeks solutions to individual, family, and neighborhood poverty. We carry out this mission in several ways. We convene leaders across key sectors and provide a safe environment for them to examine and develop ways to address issues of common concern. We conduct applied and policy research on critical challenges facing the field of community change. We serve as a technical advisor to leaders who are actively engaged in activities designed to improve outcomes for low-income children, youth and families. We conduct practical and participatory policy and organizing approaches and research on critical challenges facing the field of community change. And, we distill lessons in the field locally, nationally and internationally. We utilize a number of strategies to advance the field such as leadership development seminars, publications, educational movie screenings and discussion, volunteer opportunities, public speaking, and websites.
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