8. BIOEN4: Community Economic
 Unit 1 – Community Preparedness:
Understanding the issues & opportunities
associated with bioenergy development
 Unit 2 – Case Study Analysis
 Unit 3 – The Educator’s Role as Facilitator:
Asking the right questions
 Unit 4 – Community Economic
Development Issues

9. Community Development - is a process to
educate, counsel, promote, and cooperate with
communities (people) as they develop assets to
seek solutions and solve problems, directly or
indirectly affecting quality of life.
*After a meeting or two re-visit the question of:
Are all of the stakeholders represented?

10. HOW DO PROJECTS GET STARTED
 INITIATED BY LOCAL  Typically the project has
ENTITY been identified by local
– Individual residents and act in
– Or Group response to that need.
 INITIATED BY  The agency has a
AGENCY mandate, charge, deadline,
– Local
or other need to be met.
– State
– Federal

11. IDENTIFICATION OF STAKEHOLDERS
& GETTING THEM TO THE TABLE
 Group Processing:  Have the local people:
– Bring in a neutral party  Make the contacts
– Identify what  Bring the representatives
stakeholders are to the table
present
 Set the date, time, location
– Identify what
stakeholders are not  Give public notice
present  Open the door – host the
– Identify representatives meeting
of those stakeholder
groups

12. FORMING, STORMING,
NORMING, & PERFORMING
 Dedication
– The facilitator needs to make the commitment to stay
the course conceptually and time wise
– Volunteers must make a similar commitment
 Developmental phases are not mutually exclusive
 Ground Rules
– Must be established
– Must apply to everyone

13. GROUND RULES APPLY TO
EVERYONE
 All opinions are valued
 Participants listen respectfully
 Everyone is equal
 Everyone is heard
 No one dominates discussion
 Respectful disagreement is OK, and may be
necessary to move ahead.
 Focus on the common ground

14. MISSION & GOALS
 Must be acceptable to all
 Must be clear – understandable
 Easy to repeat & articulate
 Signed off on by participants – a conceptual
contract

15. AS THE PROJECT MATURES
 Evaluate the situation
 Re-visit the mission & goals
 Make other needed adjustments
 Other

16. The community development approach is the integration of
organizations and individuals which have environmental
knowledge, technical skills and fiscal resources in the following
areas:
• Comprehensive Planning
• Resource Use Issues
residential – housing/onsite sewage
agricultural – farming/forestry
recreational
economic development – business & Industry
retention/expansion, etc.
• Human Resource Development

17. THANK YOU
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS,
SUGGESTIONS?
 Dan Downing
 University of Missouri
 205 Ag. Eng. Building
 Columbia, Mo 65211
 downingd@missouri.edu

18. Community Development - is a process to
educate, counsel, promote, and cooperate with
communities (people) as they develop assets to
seek solutions and solve problems, directly or
indirectly affecting quality of life.
*After a meeting or two re-visit the question of:
Are all of the stakeholders represented?