Helping Smaller Communities Plan, Grow and Prosper
Yoholo Micco Rail Trail, Eufaula, Alabama
WHAT DOES ACE DO?
ACE provides technical assistance to select communities with populations of 2,000 to 18,000 through a comprehensive, three-phase approach.
ACE advocates leadership development and engages in a municipality’s vision and plans for growth and enhanced quality of life.
WHAT DEFINES AN ACE COMMUNITY?
- Fosters growth and prosperity by focusing on its distinctive assets and resources
- Establishes a vision based on the community’s unique values, concerns, and priorities
- Engages a broad base of community stakeholders to develop and implement short-term and long-range plans to achieve that vision
- Strives to meet defined ideas that embrace Leadership, Planning, Economic Development, and Quality of Life issues such as education, healthcare, and public safety.
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Timeline photosJoin us tomorrow for this free webinar! Join our presenters from Homer Trails Alliance out of Alaska and Redding Trail Alliance out of California to learn the steps to take to form a trail alliance in your own community, as well as what it takes to cultivate an existing one with tips for success. Learn more and register here: buff.ly/3SjWpw4
Guntersville City Harbor’s $30 million development brought bars, restaurants and soon a Hilton hotel
We're thrilled to announce our keynote speaker for the 7th Annual Civic Institute will be Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr!
Dr. LaFayette is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, a minister, educator, lecturer and an expert on the strategy of Nonviolent Social Change. He has devoted his life heeding Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call to “institutionalize and internationalize nonviolence.” Dr. LaFayette was a co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement Lunch Counter Sit-Ins of 1960, and the Freedom Rides of 1961.He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in Selma in 1962. He was appointed National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and National Coordinator of the Poor People’s Campaign by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. An ordained minister, Dr. LaFayette earned his B. A . from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, and his Ed.M. and Ed.D from Harvard University.
Visit mathewscenter.org/register to get your tickets today!
The grants portal is now open for arts in education grants, project and administrative grants for organizations, and Folk Arts Apprenticeship requests. The deadline to apply is September 1.
Guidelines: bit.ly/guidelines22-23
Apply here: arts.alabama.gov/apply
Reminder – Our offices will be closed Monday, July 4, in observance of the holiday.
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Our ACE Communities
The leadership found in our ACE Communities provides the backbone of our program.
Along with our team of partners, community leaders and long-time professional staff, we’re helping Alabama grow stronger one community at a time.
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