Let’s All Join Local Area Networks (LANs): Connecting to and Sharing Resources with Other Centers

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Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Time: 3:45 — 5:15 p.m

Today’s technology allows a multisite property owner/management company or Neighborhood Networks consortium to share information, data, and resources among its properties and centers. Tools such as calendaring, data management, Web conferencing, remote application access (via a Virtual Private Network), Intranet, and e-mail access can become shared resources that save Neighborhood Networks property owners, consortia, and centers time and money and provide valuable information that can be used in preparing joint grant proposals.

Materials:
LAN Presentation

Moderator/Presenter:
Shawn Escoffery
Neighborhood Networks
Vice President, BCT Partners

A vice president with BCT Partners, Shawn Escoffery has more than 11 years of planning, community, and economic development experience. Currently, Escoffery is the project executive for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Neighborhood Networks Initiative. In this position, he is responsible for managing the technical assistance program team in the development of strategic plans and sustainable organizational structures for Neighborhood Networks centers and Neighborhood Networks consortia. Throughout his career, Escoffery has managed projects and people effectively to produce positive outcomes for communities. Escoffery has extensive experience in workforce and economic development from his previous senior management responsibilities with the city of Baltimore’s Empowerment Zone and with New Community Corporation, one of the largest nonprofit community development corporations in the country. Internationally, Escoffery has worked on a waterfront redevelopment project and land use survey for the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador and a tourist redevelopment plan for the White Pagoda Temple in Beijing, China. Escoffery has worked with federal, state, and municipal governments, nonprofit organizations, community groups, and private corporations to ensure sound land-use planning and development. He has served as an executive commissioner for the city of Baltimore’s Human Services Commission and currently sits on the board of several nonprofit organizations.

Presenters:

Macary Henry
Network and System Consultant
BCT Partners

William Miecuna
Housing Program Manager, Neighborhood Networks Coordinator
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
New York, NY