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Past Projects

From June 2022-May 2023, Community Powered ran a pilot program in four communities around Wisconsin: Appleton, Forest County Potawatomi, Racine, and Spooner. Our model during the pilot program looked a little different from how the program looks now. In each of these four communities, we hired a full-time project coordinator and paired them with a local mentor at a library or cultural institution. In June 2022, we hosted a training for the four Community Powered Project Coordinators (or CPPCs) and their local mentors in Milwaukee, where we offered a series of workshops that built the foundation for our current training program. We then took the team to Merrill, Wisconsin for a weekend to try their newly learned skills on the ground.

After the training, we sent the CPPCs back to their communities where they spent six months getting to know the community, collecting and listening to stories, doing asset mapping activities to learn about local strengths and challenges, and spending time brainstorming with community members about what type of project they could conduct together. At the end of the first six months of the pilot year, the CPPCs and their partners proposed a project that they spent the last six months of the pilot completing those projects and passing them off so they would be entirely under community control.

Our pilot projects were successful in kickstarting exciting new programs around the state and allowed Community Powered to hone its training workshops and test out its process. Our ongoing training program was built from the success of our original teams of project coordinators and local mentors. To read more about their projects and successes, check out their stories below!

Our Pilot Locations

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