HUD's Web Management Operating Procedures - Appendix I: Using The Web To Implement HUD’s Strategic Goals

Appendix I: Using The Web To Implement HUD’s Strategic Goals

C. Strategic Goal 3: Strengthen communities

Opportunities:

1. Promote/market information already on HUD's website by educating staff about its availability and publicizing it to HUD partners and the public through speeches, presentations, advertising, and other outreach efforts. Examples of specific information already available that supports this goal include:

• Volunteering
  • English
  • Spanish
• About communities
  • English
  • Spanish
• Organizing your community
  • English
• Spanish
• HUD's Homeless Initiative
  • English
  • Spanish
• Local information for homeless (use the state page links in English and Spanish)

2. Increase information about local resources for community development and revitalization.

3. Seek out and publish "good stories" about community groups and others who do creative things to revitalize their communities and, specifically, on efforts that result in creation of new jobs.

4. Showcase espanol.hud.gov whenever promoting HUD's community development programs, and inform partners (state and local governments, nonprofits, etc.) about the information available from HUD's Spanish website

5. Improve/enhance information on the website (the "your community" sections) educating citizens about the importance of community involvement and informing them of ways to help in revitalization efforts.

6. Create information about and for neighborhood organizations.

7. Expand/highlight local resources for the homeless and potentially homeless.

8. Reach out to Continuum of Care coordinators in the states, and work with them to develop good websites.

9. Set up a discussion rooms for partner groups, such as Continuum of Care and Block grant recipients, so they can interact among themselves and with HUD staff.

10. Create a webcast showcasing outstanding local efforts to develop communities and informing the audience on ways to get involved

11. Use realtime chat technology and/or discussion rooms to answer questions from community groups and others about ways to work with HUD to enhance communities

12. Establish mailing lists so partner organizations can subscribe to routine updates about HUD programs and initiatives