Reinvention of the NY Main Street Alliance as support for CCE efforts is also in process through the CER programming. Materials and processes have been supplemented, adding options for surveys and trend analysis, feasibility assistance, and readiness educational programming. Staff Allee Target Audience Local citizen groups, local elected officials, planning boards. Community Environmental Management Summary A variety of opportunities for local management and governance capacity building focus on environmental protection. In cooperation with the relevant centers and statewide committees, this effort is focused on watershed organizing and the role of local water programming in assisting county water strategy committees to apply principles of alternative dispute resolution to watershed management and watershed organizing.
Current emphasis is on public management of on-site wastewater treatment systems.
More watershed organizations positioned to make informed decisions about resource management. Development of more sophisticated information networks and incentives for multicommunity collaboration. The Cooperative Enterprise Program develops educational intervention strategies and methods to discover, demonstrate, evaluate, and multiply innovative strategies in flexible network building. Provides in-service and direct educational support in pilot initiatives on how to organize and manage flexible networks to gain scale efficiencies. Increased rate of successful network start-ups.