The Community Development
Workshop
Learn. Engage. Be empowered to transform your community.
The CDW
The annual Community Development Workshop (CDW) is an opportunity to learn with leaders in community development, collaborate with other neighborhood changemakers, and be empowered to transform your community. The CDW is open to ANYONE who is seeking to make a positive change in their neighborhood and community.
Hosted annually since 2013, the CDW is for neighborhood, government, and nonprofit leaders, residents, grassroots activists, and community and neighborhood stakeholders from both Kansas and Missouri. Sign up at the bottom of this page with your email address to receive news and updates about the CDW!
What does your neighborhood need to be healthy, strong, and vibrant?
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
Many Lights Make the Way Bright.
Watch Dr. Marvia Jones at the 8th Annual Community Development Workshop.
Lately, there is a new resiliency we have all discovered inside of ourselves, as individuals, as families, and as neighborhoods and communities. The pandemic has laid bare systemic inequities, gaps, and challenges that deeply impact many of us. It has shown us new opportunities too.
The 9th Annual Community Development Workshop (CDW) was an opportunity to convene (virtually) with fellow leaders in community development, collaborate with other neighborhood change makers, and get empowered to further transform your community.
As we reflected on the last year+ of our lives, we learned from each other about what has worked (and not worked) on the ground in the work to sustain and hold up neighborhoods through these difficult days. We shared what we’re doing now, and plan to do in the future, to forge a path forward in our neighborhoods and community.
9th Annual Community Development Workshop Theme:
Reflecting on the Moment - Forging the Path Forward
The CDW is an Important Community Event!
During the 9th Annual Community Development Workshop, neighborhoods storytellers and interactive breakout sessions engaged participants on topics and a deeper discussion of community development and the roles we each play. Our topics:
Sustaining Community during (and after) COVID-19
Building Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods
Connecting Small Businesses in Our Neighborhoods
Organizing Neighborhoods around Climate Change and Action
Glenn North and Selina ONeal discuss Community Development.
Registration was FREE but required, with an option to donate available. **PLEASE NOTE: attendees needed to register for this event individually.
Share.
We’re always looking for new stories, lessons, and ideas to share at the Community Development Workshop. Send your ideas and areas of interest to info@ccfkansascity.org.
Thanks.
A big THANK YOU to the 9th Annual CDW Platinum Sponsors, PNC Bank and Greater Kansas City LISC, this year’s Gold Sponsors, AltCap and Livable Neighborhoods, and to the organizers whose contributions on many levels make the CDW possible: Bridging the Gap, Center for Neighborhoods, Greater Kansas City LISC, Livable Neighborhoods, and Youth Ambassadors (and yes, all of us at the Community Capital Fund).
