Offers basic background on a CSEPP project, its client, the services rendered, and outcomes secured.
CSEPP implemented a training program called Socially Responsive Management (SRM) for the USDA Forest Service, Region 2, between 1979 and 1984, for which we received the Gifford Pinchot Award. Altogether, CSEPP trained about 3,000 staff and 1,000 managers. As a result, the culture of the Forest Service nation-wide became much …
Our projects with the Bureau of Land Management has spanned decades and include the following accomplishments: Developed community-based courses with the National Training Center of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for its Partnership Series which was presented to over 60 communities and BLM district offices. We were the social …
CSEPP saved three Hispanic towns from gentrification from the rapid development of Vail, Colorado as the recreation economy expanded in the 1970s, developing 38 local businesses and instituting land use measures to protect the geographic integrity of the towns. We successfully integrated the local Hispanic community into the recreation economy …
The Orton Family Foundation asked our help when its program to preserve the hardwood forests of northeast Connecticut was not gaining traction. Community description revealed deep-seated love for the local waterways, the power source of the textile industry that dominated the area in the 19th Century, and interest in tourism …
CSEPP worked with social service delivery agencies in the 1960s and 1970s on the War on Poverty to realize the goal of “maximum feasible participation of the poor.” By connecting to the existing informal networks in a community, CSEPP consultants facilitated low income people to participate in the development of …
CSEPP principals worked with the West Medford Community Coalition (southern Oregon) in mobilizing residents to improve local conditions. These were low-income residents uncomfortable in public meetings but by working through their communication system, significant progress was made in reducing blight, eliminating drug houses, integrating Latinos into Neighborhood Watch, helping schools …
Report Excerpt The Guam Power Authority (GPA) entered into a contract with HEI Power Corporation/Guam (HPG) on September 30, 1996 to have the latter take over the management of the Tanguisson Power Plant. The actual transfer of administration of the facility from GPA to HPG was effective on November 11, …
Building a Transmission Line and Sub-Station at Snowmass, Colorado As you turn off Highway 82 onto Brush Creek for the seven-mile drive into Snowmass you are struck with the expansiveness and beauty of the landscape. The citizens of Snowmass, a small resort town, assessed themselves over $8 million in the …
From summer 2016 to summer 2017, CSEPP helped the Bureau of Land Management gather community input for their land use management plan for the Applegate Valley. Instead of developing a plan and facing criticism from BLM’s neighbors when the plan is publicized, BLM learned community priorities first, so that they …
