Nominations for the 2015 National Community Development Award (Australian Regional Development Conference) close on Tuesday next week (15 July 2014). The key criterion? How does your project demonstrate innovation and/or best practice in the way your organisation does business or delivers services to your community?
What does innovation and/or best practice in community development mean to you?
Innovation is … :
According to this 2012 article ‘Community Development, reflecting on what works‘, a pithy summary of current leading trends:
1. ‘unprecedented collaboration’ – joining forces with other organisations and workers … to the max!
2. successfully using data which plays a key role role in analysis, programming and decision-making.
Is this what the CD awards are looking for when seeking innovation, and does this reflect your experience?
