Last month, CDF’s Jeremy Lewis joined Community Network Builders from around the country, as part of the Knight Foundation’s work on informed and engaged communities. Facilitators Frankie Blackburn and Bill Traynor wrote a blog post summarizing the meeting:
25 senior Community Network Builders’ from around the country converged in Miami this past fall to talk about their work in an effort to generate what they called “actionable knowledge” about what they do, how they do it and why they think this work is distinctive and impactful and needed now, in struggling American communities. Invited by the Knight Foundation and Grassroots Grantmakers, with our help and facilitation, the convening was designed to engage each participant as BOTH a practitioner and a ‘thought leader” in the field.