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Hosted by www.AmericanTrails.org National Center for Bicycling & Walking NCBW BROADENS COMMUNITY WORKSHOP OFFERINGS With the success of this year's pilots of the City Safe Routes to School workshop and the GIS-based community assessment tool, the National Center for Bicycling & Walking is broadening its approach to community workshops beyond the traditional Walkable Community Workshop. "We're excited about the opportunity to do more for neighborhoods and communities than simply focusing on walkability," said Bill Wilkinson, executive director of NCBW. "While we'll continue to offer our award-winning series of Walkable Community Workshops, with the new year we will begin offering a much broader array of community-based activities. These will include pedestrian-friendly and bicycle-friendly community workshops, safe routes to school workshops, train-the-trainer sessions, community assessments, summit meetings, and more...a variety of ways to meet local needs." Mark Plotz, NCBW's program director, notes that the organization has in the past four years offered more than 350 individual community workshops. "We've developed a systematic approach to hosting the WCWs," said Plotz. "We're eager to use what we've learned through these workshops to offer even more ways to encourage public involvement and civic engagement while making communities more bicycle friendly and walkable." Plotz said that the new offerings will be made widely available in early 2007 to MPOs, school districts, public health practitioners, local advocacy organizations, and others. For more information or to discuss how NCBW might assist in your community's efforts, contact Mark Plotz at: mark@bikewalk.org or (301) 656-4220. National Center for Bicycling & Walking, 8120 Woodmont Ave, Suite 650,
Bethesda, MD 20814. Phone: (301) 656-4220; fax: (301) 656-4225; email:
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