(Label numbers refer to labeling at the NRP Office Video Library)

T1. Overview of the NRP Planning Process: NRP Training *
A comprehensive look at the NRP planning process with tips on how to write a Neighborhood Participation Agreement. Presenters include NRP/CARE staff members and staff from the city planning department.
Length: 35 minutes. Dec. 1994


T2. Bookkeeping and Financial Procedures: NRP Training *
The nuts and bolts of how to do your NRP bookkeeping and accounting. Presented by Jack Whitehurst of the NRP/CARE staff.
Length: 25 minutes. Dec. 1994


T3. Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? (NRP Training: Data Collection) *
How to use surveys, focus groups, and other techniques to collect information about your neighborhood. This is the video version of the popular NRP Training workshop.
Length: 50 minutes. March 1994


T4. Community Involvement: NRP Training *
Practical techniques for involving the diverse elements of the community and tips for working with volunteers. Experienced community organizers Jay Clark and Jackie Starr present the workshop and give useful examples from their neighborhood work.
Length: 40 minutes. April 1994


T5. Facilitation Skills / Conflict Resolution: NRP Training *
Running effective and productive meetings can be one of the most challenging aspects of community organizing. This tape provides a training workshop on how to improve your ability to facilitate meetings and how to make conflict become a positive element of your planning process.
Length: 50 minutes. April 1994


T6. Developing a Vision, Goals and Objectives *
The heart of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program is determining a vision for your neighborhood and then identifying goals and objectives that will make that vision into a reality. This tape features a presentation that defines goals, objectives and strategies and offers tips on how to turn goals and objectives that were identified in the information gathering stage of planning into strategies that can be achieved.
Length: 36 minutes. Dec. 1994.


T7. Working with Government: NRP Training *
One of the foundations of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program is to examine and change the way that people in neighborhoods work with government. This tape features a panel discussion featuring representatives of the City, the County and the Public Schools, Parks and Libraries. Panelists describe how their departments work, what kinds of NRP activities they have collaborated with other neighborhoods on, and how you can work with them. This tape was developed for neighborhoods involved in the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program.
Length: 57 minutes. June 1994.


T8. Writing and Implementing the Plan: NRP Training *
Once you have assessed the needs of your neighborhood you need to present that information and then turn your neighborhood vision into a reality by actually implementing your plan. This tape provides a training workshop with tips on how to write an NRP Neighborhood Action Plan and a review of the process for implementing the plan once it has been approved.
Length: 26 minutes. July 1994. (Superseded by T13: Writing the NRP Plan, 1995 edition)


T9. Home Improvement Programs
Home improvement programs are some of the most popular initiatives that have come out of NRP planning. This tape includes information on grants, loans and deferred loans for home improvement, how to involve other agencies and government in developing your program, and presentations by people who have worked on programs in their neighborhoods.
Length: 47 minutes. March 1995.


T10. Beyond "First Step"
NRP director Bob Miller explains the steps in the NRP process that follow completion of the "First Step" plan.
Length: 21 minutes. October 1995.


T11. Environment and Transportation Planning
Traffic calming, bicycle routes, water quality, community gardens and other environment and transportation issues are discussed in the context of the NRP. A panel consisting of staff from the city of Minneapolis, neighborhood groups and the Sustainable Resources Center speak about what they have done and what they can work on.
Length: 38 minutes. March 1995.


T12. Leveraging Resources - NRP Information Workshop
This workshop features presentations by staff from three neighborhood groups and two local foundations on the programs and organizations that they represent as well as philosophies and examples of leveraging. NRP Resources have the greatest impact if they are matched with resources from other sources and other kinds of efforts. Panelists include Karen Kelley Ariwoola of the Minneapolis Foundation, Joy Palmer of the Headwaters Fund, Jana Metge of the Central Neighborhood Improvement Association, Pat Deinhardt of the Whittier Alliance, and Harry Jensen of the Lyndale Community Development Corporation.
Length: 37 minutes 12 seconds. November 1995.


T13. Writing the Plan - NRP Information Workshop (1995 Version)
Once you have assessed the needs of your neighborhood you need to present that information and then turn your neighborhood vision into a reality by actually implementing your plan. This tape provides a training workshop with tips on how to write an NRP Neighborhood Action Plan and a review of the process for implementing the plan once it has been approved. Carol Mork and Hillary Freeman of the NRP staff conduct the training.
Length: 29 minutes. November 1995.


T14. Housing Programs - NRP Information Workshop
Nearly every neighborhood involved in the NRP process has identified housing as an issue of concern. This tape features presentations that will help a neighborhood housing committee develop a housing program. Presenters include Don Snyder of the Minneapolis Community Development Agency, Carol Jacobson of the Powderhorn Park Housing Resource Center, Julia Clausen of Burnet Realty, Jennifer Young of the Bottineau Housing Committee, and Hillary Freeman of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program.
Length: 29 minutes. December 1995.

* Available at all Minneapolis public library branches.


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