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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Join American Trails on Thursday, January 20 at noon for the free webinar "Successful Partnering for the Appalachian Trail." During this installment of the Advancing Trails Webinar Series, you'll learn from organizations along the Appalachian Trail as they share success stories about their fruitful partnerships and how they were created.
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Today, we join the nation in honoring the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We invite you to read and listen to two of his pivotal pieces: "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail: teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-from-birmingham-city-jail-excerpts/
I Have a Dream Speech:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s&t=3s
The Winter issue of the Alabama Municipal Journal is in the mail, but you can read it now online! In this issue: Communities as Classrooms, Certified Local Government Status via the Alabama Historical Commission, Main Street Alabama - Building Economic Success, 2020 Census FAQs, ARPA Reporting and Compliance, Land Bank Authorities, the Alabama Film Office and AMIC/MWCF's Loss Control Division turns 20! Check it out here: almonline.org/Assets/Files/Alabama%20Municipal%20Journal/JournalArchive/2022/Winter2022-Web-2.pdf
Winter weather returns to Alabama on Sunday. Learn more at ema.alabama.gov/2022/01/14/winter-weather-returns-on-sunday/
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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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