Greetings CDS Friends – We look forward to seeing you at the CDS Conference in Portland!. Start thinking now about how you can support the CDS Silent and Live Auction to bolster the Society’s educational materials fund, diversity fund, scholarship fund, Nette Nelson Travel Scholarship Fund, George Nickolaus CD Graduate Student Award, Ted Bradshaw Fund, Annual […]
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The Community Development Society is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the following Scholarship Funds to be awarded to students or regular members planning to take part in the 2023 CDS Annual Conference to be held July 16-19 in Portland, Oregon. APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 5, 2023 Nette Nelson Travel Scholarship (one award for […]
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Our annual Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon on July 16-19, 2023. The program will feature cherished CDS offerings of pre-conference workshops (on the 16th), hosted receptions and an Awards Banquet, exciting mobile workshops, and an array of presentations related to our theme in a variety of formats. We anticipate a draft program in March […]
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The 2023 CDS Conference team hopes you enjoyed the holidays and are feeling refreshed and motivated in the new year. Since the Call for Proposals overlapped the entire holiday season and some people missed messages while on break, we’ve extended the deadline for submissions to January 31st. Please consider submitting a proposal, or encourage your colleagues and […]
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The Conference Working Groups are in motion and making terrific progress on the Call for Proposals, arrangements for plenary speakers, receptions, mobile workshops, and a schedule of registration fees that will afford discounts to students, AmeriCorps/VISTA members, and representatives from small grassroots groups to increase the diversity of participation in our Portland, Oregon conference, July 16-19, […]
Read moreAs I reviewed my notes from our FY 22 conference, I pulled out a few thoughts as to how the field is changing and how we can do more and better: As you think back on our discussions, please consider how you might dedicate a small portion of your time and energy to address these issues […]
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The 2023 Conference (Portland, Oregon) working groups are getting ready to convene! The preliminary theme is ‘Hood and Holler: Similarities and Differences in Urban and Rural Community Development. This meets the interests of our two conference co-hosts, Portland State University and Oregon State University. The Host working group will focus on local issues like identifying mobile workshops, choosing […]
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The Future of Community Development: The Field and the Society July 17-20, 2022 EXTENDED deadline for submissions: May 31, 2022 Getting back to “business as usual” while we continue to deal with the impacts and realities of a global pandemic (not to mention all the hobbies and volunteering we may have picked up in quarantine) seems […]
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The Future of Community Development: The Field and the Society July 17-20, 2022 Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2022 Amidst an ongoing global pandemic, social uprisings, and a divisive political climate, these past few years have invited us all to reckon with our identities, our work, and our futures. Many are seeing with more clarity the […]
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