Community Building Projects

Lakota Schools Community Conversation
What type of education do our children need to succeed in the 21st century?  That is the question being posed to West Chester and Liberty township community members in a broad effort to engage the community in defining the future of local education. Read more.   

Citizens' Budget Committee Moves Forward

Norwood Drug/Alcohol Abuse Coalition
With so much effort being poured into drug and alcohol abuse issues, professionals and community members alike are wondering why there is still such a problem. Their solution:  work across professional and community boundaries to figure out what we can do together that we can't do alone?  Read more.

An Invitation to City Managers

Children's Hospital Injury Prevention Summit
Even when you are as big as Children's Hospital, public health initiatives cannot succeed without broad community support and action.  Read more. 

Active Citizens Build Better Communities:  A CCR Introduction

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Re-activating the American citizen is the best hope for a sustainable future, so CCR builds citizen partnerships with government and institutions to:
  • Tackle issues that leaders often find too hot to handle;
  • Generate creative options for solving problems;
  • Tap non-financial resources for collective efforts;
  • Inspire broader support for community initiatives.  
In a time of tight budgets, CCR helps governments, institutions, and communities tap the human resources that made this country great. Join us in building a sustainable America.

CCR Trains Lakota Principals in Collaborative Meeting Facilitation
With the success of the community conversation process (click here for more details), Lakota Local Schools superintendent Dr. Karen Mantia has asked CCR to train their principals in collaborative meeting facilitation. For ten years, CCR executive director Jeffrey Stec has facilitated community dialog, lead non-profit strategic planning, and traveled the country teaching continuing legal education courses in "collaborative negotiation", which marries communication psychology to group facilitation skills. Combined, these experiences offer an integrated facilitation model for building teams, inspiring ideas, and reaching consensus--exactly what is necessary to re-invigorate staff or community meetings. Click here for more.

Get Trained in Collaborative Meeting Facilitation

Whether you want to engage your staff or your community, learning to facilitate collaborative meetings will help you increase creativity, build a team, and generate real commitment to action.  CCR's network of facilitators has decades of experience including:
  • Community and union organizing;
  • Government leadership training;
  • Board development and strategic planning;
  • Teaching collaborative negotiation to lawyers, both live and virtual.
Packaged in a hands-on, experiential training style, our training program will help your staff build a creative, collaborative culture that gets things done.  Contact JeffreyStec@gmail.com for more information. 

Become a member

As a CCR member, you become part of a movement committed to re-activating American citizenship and building a sustainable society.  But you also get great member benefits: course discounts, the Citizens Toolkit training series, peer-group study circles, project coaching, and members-only resources.  But the ability to help guide CCR's work and inspire others to get involved is the passion that holds us together.  Read more.

Get help with a project

CCR offers more local experience in citizen engagement than any other entity.  We have involved citizens in the work of neighborhoods, public schools, municipal government, and non-profits.  We bridge the gap between "the suite and the street", tapping collective wisdom, passion, and power.  Whatever your community project, we will generate better results by helping you involve more citizens.  Read more.