Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Local Funding Partnerships - 2011 Annual Meeting

St. Paul, MN
Meeting Details

August 17, 2011: Online registration has been closed and the room block at the Crown Plaza is full. For assistance with either registration or hotel, please call our office at (609) 275-4128.

Overview
The LFP Annual Meeting will be held Wednesday–Friday, September 21–23, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza St. Paul Riverfront in St. Paul, MN. Start time: Wednesday, 9/21/2011 with a plenary session at 4:00 PM.

The Annual Meeting offers current grantees and their funding partners an opportunity to share their stories and to learn new strategies for success. A Preliminary Agenda is posted for your information as well as answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the meeting.

All invitations for the 2011 Annual Meeting have already been issued by e-mail. Invitations contain the instructions for online registration. Please don't forget to both reserve your hotel room and complete your meeting registration. Anyone who is unable to complete the online registration, please call/e-mail Peggy Kebel at (609) 275-4134 or pkebel@localfundingpartnerships.org. Deadline for both the meeting and the room registrations is Tuesday, August 16, 2011.

We use a photo format for our meeting attendee list and ask every participant to e-mail his/her photo to the LFP office by 8/16/2011. The photos will be cut to about 1” by 1.5”, so please send either full face shots or ones where our office can easily crop the face to these dimensions. If we have your photo from last year, we will use it again unless you send us a note or a replacement photo. These pictures are only intended for the meeting book, not for any other publication and not for internet use. E-mail your photo to RWJFLocalFundingPartnerships@njha.com by August 16, 2011, but sooner if you can. Thank you!

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Schedule
The opening plenary session is on Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 P.M., September 21, 2011. The meeting will end at lunchtime on Friday, September 23, 2011. Please plan to stay at the hotel until after 1:00 p.m. on Friday. We will provide you with box lunches as you depart for the airport or sightseeing in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Is there a theme to this year's meeting?
Yes, our plenaries will focus on Creating Sanctuary for Ourselves and Our Communities—Managing Stress and Violence in Our Lives.


  • Wednesday afternoon's keynote presenter will be John A. Rich, M.D., M.P.H., the Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice and the Chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University School of Public Health. Dr. Rich is the author of the book Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men.
  • Thursday morning's session will be led by Sandra L. Bloom, M.D., Associate Professor at Drexel University School of Public Health and President of CommunityWorks—a consulting firm committed to the development of nonviolent environments. Dr. Bloom's books and training programs focus on the Sanctuary Model® to create a shared experience if physical, psychological, social and moral safety with staff, clients and families.

Returning by popular demand:

  • Thursday sessions where directors of "graduating" grants report on their lessons learned.
  • Thaler Pekar, a leading voice in the field of organizational narrative and story sharing who led workshops last year, will present an interactive plenary session for all of us on Friday morning.

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Airport & Ground Transportation
The Crowne Plaza St. Paul Riverfront is located 7.7 miles from the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP).

Reservations for ground transportation from the airport to the hotel can be made online at the Super Shuttle website. When entering the hotel name, use Crowne Plaza and then select Crowne Plaza Riverfront from the presented list. Cost is $14 per person in a shared van. There is a link to the Super Shuttle's website at http://www.mspairport.com/GroundTransportation/van-and-shuttle-services.aspx

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Hotel Reservations

Crowne Plaza St. Paul Riverfront
11 East Kellogg Boulevard
St. Paul, MN 55101
1-651-292-1900
http://www.cpstpaul.com/

RWJF-LFP has contracted for rooms for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights (September 20, 21 and 22) at a meeting rate of $119.00/night. If you wish to extend your stay outside these contracted dates, you will need to book a separate, second reservation for those dates, either by phone or through the reservation website.

You may make your reservation(s) by booking online or calling the hotel directly at 651-292-1900 and referencing the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships meeting and the Group Code of I00 (i.e. letter I, zero, zero.)

  • Available room options in our contract are:-
    • king, non-smoking
    • 2 double-beds, non-smoking
  • Check-in time is 4:00 PM. You can ask for an early check-in when you make your reservations as our program begins at 4:00 PM.

There is an attached parking garage at a cost of $17.00 per day. Complimentary high-speed Internet access is in the guest rooms and lobby.

Please note: Hotel room rates are subject to applicable state and local taxes and add $10.00 for each additional person in a room beyond two people. The maximum number of people per room is four.

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Workshop Registration
Please review the agenda and workshop descriptions and presenter bios and make your decisions before you go online to register. You will be asked to choose a Thursday afternoon workshop and a Friday morning workshop.

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Who Attends
LFP grant funds cover travel for two individuals, usually the project director and a staff member. If you feel the need to bring a third person, such as a coalition member or other community partner, please call the LFP office (609-275-4128) to see if we can accommodate this request. You must identify the resources to pay the costs for a third representative. All funding partners are welcome to attend at their own expense. Your nominating funder received the meeting information.

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Information for 2011 Graduating Projects
If your grant was originally scheduled to close before our next Annual Meeting in 2012, it is your turn to be honored as a Graduating Grantee. Presentations will be Thursday morning, 9/22/11.

Each graduating project will have:

  • a one-page fact sheet
  • a story about the project
  • talking points on "lessons learned"

All due by e-mail to Debbi Dunn Solomon by August 16, 2011.

For more information, see the guidelines below. You may also replay a webinar with Debbi Dunn Solomon, LFP director of media and public information, which reviews all the details and gives tips on each item that needs to be prepared.

Read details on the One-page Graduate Report

Update—the new, shorter paragraph which must be placed somewhere on your one-pager:

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships joins the resources of a national foundation with local grantmakers to support ambitious new community initiatives that meet people where health starts—where they live, learn, work and play.


      Sample one-pagers: 

Read details on how to compose and submit a story for use in sustainability efforts and for publication on the LFP website.
      Examples:

Read the details on talking points on your "lessons learned" to be e-mailed to Debbi Dunn Solomon by August 16, 2011.

    • Send in a Word document
    • Outline your answers to the questions of your choice
    • Consider what you want to share

For more information on any aspect of your presentation, e-mail Debbi Dunn Solomon or call 609-275-4128.

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Any Questions?
Please see Frequently Asked Questions. We also welcome your calls at the LFP office at (609) 275-4128. We look forward to seeing you in September!

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