CBNO Citizen Participation Awards

On November 10, the Committee for a Better New Orleans will present its second annual Citizen Participation Award at a luncheon at the Marriott Hotel on Canal Street.  Carolyn Luckensmeyer, the Founder and President of AmericaSpeaks, will be our keynote speaker. Please go here for a flyer for this event: CBNO Awards Invite 2011

Right now we invite you to nominate an individual and/or organization that has shown outstanding leadership on empowering citizens to be agents of change. For the nomination form, please click here; please feel free to circulate it among your friends and colleagues, and please take a little time to help us identify some great candidates for this year’s Citizen Participation Award (FYI, the Neighborhoods Partnership Network was last year’s recipient). Nominations are due by Tuesday, October 18.

If you have any questions or to submit your nominations forms, please contact Keith Twitchell at keithgct@aol.com. Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you soon!

NOLA CPP Action Team Meeting Summary

On Monday, October 3, the NOLA CPP Action Team met to discuss our meeting with the Mayor, meeting with City Planning staff, and the kick-off of the Neighborhood Participation Plan (NPP) process. We discussed these events and our key priorities for moving forward. The major next steps include the following:

1.  Be very engaged with the city’s (NEO’s) NPP process, and work to make sure it does include both the internal and external components.

2.  Expand the conversation with City Planning regarding their participation in the Gentilly pilot project.

3.  Explore CPP funding options, including possible non-governmental (foundation?) funding as well as the community conversation around a dedicated revenue source.

4.  Continue informing the community about the CPP model, taking input on it and refining it as such input suggests.

Please go to the following link for the complete summary of the October 3 Action Team Meeting: Action Team 10.03.11