Lessons on Authentic Resident Engagement from a "Retired" Foundation Executive by Audrey Jordan, PhD
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Transcript of Lessons on Authentic Resident Engagement from a "Retired" Foundation Executive by Audrey Jordan, PhD
TransformRVA Better Housing Coalition 25th Anniversary
Building Neighborhoods for All: Civic Engagement
Panel Presentation by Audrey Jordan, Ph.D.
May 21, 2015
INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
Virginia Commonwealth University – my education and my EducationSocial Policy and Social Work, Survey and Evaluation Research Lab, COPC
Annie E. Casey Foundation’s UMHI – East District InitiativeCynthia Newbille, force of nature, and Mrs. Annie E. Giles, griot
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s UHI – Youth Matters(the false choice of focus on treetops vs. grassroots)
Key Points
Translations, transactions, and transformations1 – very different interactions
Social connections – if you lean into them – are transformative
Story about a transformational “dual-world” experience taught to me by Ms. Annie Giles
1Manuel Pastor: Transactions, Transformations, Translations: Metrics that Matter for Building, Scaling and Funding Social Movements
Key Points"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.“ (Einstein) Not supposed to be trying to win a game, stick a flag in a mountain, so why do funders act this way?Community capacities as the critical interim success in a long-term, sustainable place-based change initiative
Key Points
Your Initiative is not the sun in the middle of their galaxy Authentic Demand as “honeycomb” of capacities2
The only way to know these is for YOU (all of you) to engage (flip the script)
2Sustaining Neighborhood Change: The Power of Resident Leadership, Social Networks and Community Mobilization (AECF monograph)
Key Points
Diversity inclusion equity
You can’t/must not do everything
Innovation with Provisionality
“Let’s go how far we can see, then see how far we can go” (Garland Yates)