Indiana Association For Community Economic Development Inc

Engagement: prosperity indiana utilizes a number of strategies to accomplish community building and connecting to strengthen and unite members. This includes the organization's blog and social networks, the monthly piece of the pi newsletter, peer-to-peer convenings, membership directory, an annual summit and leadership awards presentation, and regional member meetings. The organization also accomplishes connectivity and advocacy goals through coalition building efforts.

Advocacy: advocacy and policy engagement are important parts of a successful community economic development framework. The organization's advocacy work strengthens members by building relationships. It enhances members' skills and capacity to understand their own policy environments, large and small, and to communicate their values and priorities to their elected officials and program administrators. It enables front-line practitioners to have their voices heard in policy debates and on emerging policy issues. The advocacy function organizes members and supporters around a policy agenda, builds and maintains strategic partnerships with allies to advance this agenda, and monitors and explains trends in policymaking to members.