Community Development

The University Where You Live

Education:

• Helping businesses, governments and citizens adapt to change

• About building resilient communities

Facilitating working together on what is important to you

The mission of the UW-Extension Community Resource Development Educator
is to help citizens build better communities, by:

• providing learning opportunities related to public issues
• facilitating citizen participation
• conducting localized research with community groups
• accessing outside resources and university information

The benefits of this work for communities include…

• greater public awareness of current forces affecting communities
• more informed group and community decision making
• preservation of community features that citizens value
• progress toward changes that citizens desire

Who the CRD Educator works with includes…

• local, county, school and tribal governments
• planning commissions and plan advisory committees
• nonprofit, community-based organizations and civic groups
• businesses and business organizations
• community development corporations
• property owners, lake groups and natural resource organizations
• housing and neighborhood groups

2010 Census
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1
This is a mapping resource that allows one to view some (but not all) of the new data in map form from the 2010 Census. Results are shown by county on population change, race/ethnicity, and housing occupancy/vacancy patterns if tools are zoomed in far enough, one can also see the same data for individual census tracts within counties.
As more and more data starts to arrive from the 2010 Census, the Applied Population Laboratory will be developing and updating data access, visualization and profiling tools aimed at enhancing the use of census data in county and local applications.

Weather:
NOAA links (the ones weathercasters use)

• Shawano Zone Forecast
• Wisconsin Weather Data
• Portal to Weather in US (by type of event)
• Weather Warnings across US

General Reference

• Martindale’s Reference Desk
• StateMaster
• NationMaster
• Perry-Castañeda Library (Maps)
• Wolfram Alpha
• Free Management Library
• Trend Watching
• National Academies Press
• The Challenge Network
• Information is Beautiful
• TED
• Fora TV
• Meet the Boss TV

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If you have questions regarding Community Resource Development in Shawano County, please contact:

	Jay Moynihan, Community Resource & Development Agent UW-Extension Shawano County Shawano County Courthouse 311 North Main Street, Room 101 Shawano, WI 54166 Phone: 715-526-6136 * Fax: 715-526-4875 E-mail: jay.moynihan@ces.uwex.edu Blog: http://adaptationfactory.blogspot.com
	Rhonda Sumnicht, Office Assistant UW-Extension Shawano County Shawano County Courthouse 311 North Main Street, Room 101 Shawano, WI 54166 Phone: 715-526-6136 * Fax: 715-526-4875 E-mail: rhonda.sumnicht@co.shawano.wi.us