-----Original Message-----
From: SCOPA@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SCOPA@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Alvin W. Wolfe
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 4:29 PM
To: SCOPA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SCOPA] SCOPA's relations with SfAA/NAPA LPOs

One of our own MAs,Terry Redding, was responsible at the SfAA meeting
in Santa Fe for organizing a meeting of all the LPOs.  I could not
participate because I had a conflicting engagement, but I hope someone
represented SCOPA there.  We should not let our affiliation with the
other LPOs drop, because that will be useful one day.  

Who among you know what happened there? Please let us all know through
this SCOPA YahooGroup. 

--Alvin

hi everyone

I think Terry thought I was going to go but since Alvin was going I figured he would go -- we never discussed it and I did not attend.  In the future we should probably communicate directly.

BTW at the NAPA board meeting Terry brought up the topic of how NAPA can support LPOs like SCOPA.  This is an old discussion -- way back when I was the student representative to NAPA board this discussion was tabled.  Now I would suggest that SCOPA re-think what, if anything, you/we would like to see from NAPA and be very specific to Terry so that he can advocate for us.  Here is what we had previously discussed:

1. NAPA can help host websites for LPOs -by the way, does SCOPA have a website?  Terry set one up a long time ago on my usf account.

2. Why not check out www.practicinganthropology.org and use this forum to figure out what works best for us?

Take care!

A

----- Original Message -----

I did not attend the meeting and have no information. Sorry.
Brian McEwen

-----Original Message-----
From: Alvin W. Wolfe [mailto:wolfe@...]
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 4:03 PM
To: SCOPA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SCOPA] Central Avenue Update



On my return, I notice that SCOPA members have not been sharing much
information via the SCOPA YahooGroup. My communication has been
seriously curtailed these past few months due to a shoulder
immobilizer subsequent to surgery.  Now I need only a sling so I am
back.

Upon my return, I have found a few items of interest, but I am sure
some SCOPA Members have much more and I hope they will share it.

In the Minutes of the March 23 Meeting of the Neighborhood and
Communities Task Group, under "Central Park Forum" I found:
"Susan Greenbaum informed the group that the follow-up committee for
the forum was held on March 11th. The follow-up committee is
currently completing two summaries documenting the event.  The
initial summary consists of a four-page description with photographs
that will be sent to all attendees of the forum and community
members.  The longer report is approximately sixteen pages and
provides greater detail on the workings of the event.

"The follow-up committee created an additional sub-committee to
follow up the community needs expressed at the table such as the
relocation concerns of residents.  Additionally, they are currently
writing grants for formalization and staffing to assist in funding
and documentation efforts of the forum.

"An additional meeting on the forum is being planned.  Dr. Greenbaum
advised that the morning of April 12th is the tentative date for the
meeting, which will be held at the Resident's Association."

?Did anybody participate in the April 12th meeting of the Follow-Up
Committee?

At the USF Collaborative Directors Meeting on April 18, although they
talked some about Central Avenue and Central Park Village, I heard no
mention of that April 12th meeting.  However, Robin Jones did mention
that the Tampa Housing Authority (or the Mayor's AdHoc Task Group?)
had issued an RFQ.  Does anybody know about that?  Does it say
anything about need for a social impact Assessment?  We should not
drop the ball.

--Alvin








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Sorry, I could not put the file into YahooGroups as a web file, so I
am just putting the text herebelow.  --Alvin
Development Opportunity in Downtown Tampa, Florida
Request for Developer Qualifications
Solicitation NO: RFQ-2005-25ORED
The Housing Authority of the City of Tampa, also known as the Tampa
Housing Authority ("THA"), in a collaborative effort with the
City of
Tampa, Hillsborough County, and the residents of Central Park
Village, is seeking the services of a development team to plan and
redevelop a public housing community known as Central Park Village.

Central Park Village is sited on 28 acres and consists of 484 units
of multi-family public housing built in the 1950s. It borders one of
the gateways to downtown Tampa, forms part of a culturally and
historically significant African-American neighborhood and, together
with other City-owned lots in the area, vacant or under-utilized
parcels adjacent and nearby, represents one of the most interesting
parcels of developable land in Tampa. Additionally, it rests adjacent
to the current downtown CBD and forms part of the area between
downtown, the Channelside District and Historic Ybor City, all of
which are experiencing tremendous growth and development. Given the
current demographics, growth patterns and population increases for
the City of Tampa and Hillsborough County, Central Park Village
arguably represents the most significant redevelopment undertaking
for Tampa in the coming decades.
Complete details of the requirements are contained in the official
Request for Qualifications package.  Interested developers may
request a copy of the official request for qualifications, on or
after April 11, 2005, by contacting the THA Contracting Office at
813/253-0551 ext. 317 or by visiting the contracting offices located
at 808 North Rome Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33606.

The deadline for submitting responses is 2:00 PM (prevailing Tampa
time) on May 16, 2005.  The deadline for written questions is 2:00 pm
(prevailing Tampa time) on April 21, 2005.

THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF TAMPA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
EMPLOYER.
BY ORDER OF JEROME D. RYANS, PRESIDENT/CEO.

notes are attached in Word

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On January 22, 2005, immediately after our joint AntConn-SCOPA
meeting I sent the following report in to Carla Littlefield, then
LPO news editor for the SfAA Newsletter:

Members of the Sun Coast Organization of Practicing Anthropologists
(SCOPA) are busy applying their skills and perspective in many areas
of the Tampa Bay Area, but we have not really done much as a
corporate body.  As we have previously reported that our activities
are mostly in the areas of neighborhood and community planning,
especially when that planning is for children and families, housing
and transportation, and especially when those activities are pushed
by the  University of South Florida Collaborative for Children,
Families and Communities (which involves USF faculty but always
involves community representatives as well).

A most interesting current development is a jointly sponsored forum
aiming at arousing community interest in doing community impact
assessment before proceeding with any developments that would affect
neighborhoods.  Professor Susan Greenbaum's research on public
housing has stimulated interest on the part of SCOPA members as well
as other activists in the Tampa Bay Area. We expect Professor Stan
Hyland from the University of Memphis to participate in that forum.  -
-Alvin W. Wolfe, January 22, 2005


Since then, we have had a number of updates on these joint SCOPA-
AntConn-USF-Collaborative-Task-Group-on-Neighborhoods-and-Communities
activities reported on the SCOPA YahooGroup  (see messages 141, 143,
146, 149, 150, 157, and 160).   None of these have been reported to
the LPO News, but they should be.

  SCOPA, the Sun Coast Organization of Practicing Anthropologists,
continues to collaborate with other organizations interested in
encouraging public authorities to do proper community impact
assessments of any development or re-development projects.  We are
concerned that nothing like that has been done for the projects being
contemplated to replace Central Park Village in Tampa.  An April 29,
2005, joint City of Tampa and Tampa Housing Authority "Request for
Qualification" sent to developers makes no mention of social impact
assessment even though it will uproot hundreds of families, no doubt
sending many into other neighborhoods where impacts will be felt as
well.  SCOPA anthropologists and University anthropologists as well,
are trying to encourage the authorities to do a better job of
planning.

It ought to be worth mentioning somewhere that one of the founders of
SCOPA, the late Picot Floyd, who earned his Ph.D. in applied
anthropology at the University of South Florida in 1988, was
responsible for initiating the first municipal ordinance to
require "community impact assessment" for almost any development in
the city of Clearwater, a small city adjacent to Tampa.  At that
time, in the late 1970s, Floyd received many accolades for his
innovativeness and his forward-looking initiatives as City Manager.
But it seems strange, doesn't it, that almost thirty years later
another generation of anthropologists still has to be pleading for
public authorities to recognize the value of social impact
assessments.

--Alvin Wolfe

Professor Greenbaum and her crew have mailed out the Report on the Feb
19 Community Forum on the Cental Avenue Area.  It is a fine four-page,
full-color folio with considerable detail on all aspects of the forum.
All of you who were there should receive it.  Those SCOPA members who
did not make it to the forum should definitely make some effor to
participate.  This is the only way we are going to push Tampa and the
Housing Authority to do some social impact assessment, not only for
this project area but others as well.

It is not too late for you to act.  The message is displayed
prominently:  If you want to get involved, please contact us at 974-
3478; or by email: greenbau@....

Do it!   --Alvin Wolfe

At last Thursday's meeting of the Neighborhoods and Communities
Workgroup (Thursday, 5/19/2005)of the USF Collaborative for Children
Families and Communities, the participants discussed and finally
listed a number of "lessons learned" during the past several years of
workgroup activities, and then proceeded to identifiy some things "To
Do" in the near future.

Many of the items on the "To Do" list are things that are right up
the applied anthropology alley.  Some examples:

• Database on dissertation and theses.  We already maintain
that kind of list for MA and PhD theses and dissertations in applied
anthropology.
• Develop a community of students interested in this work.  We
pretty much have that in our applied anthropology programs – but we
should probably communicate more with students in other disciplines.
• Ask Alumni Association to organize a group and $ for
community engagement.  A few years ago we established an Anthropology
Alumni Society, but it has been inactive for a year. Time to
resuscitate and mingle with others.
• Use graduates to be advocates and resources.  Anthropologists
need to do more in this area, although we have not been dormant.
• Explore linkage agent role for Collaborative of organizations
such as the Tampa Bay Chapters of the American Society of Public
Administrators and the National Association of Social Workers, and
(last but not least!) the Suncoast Organization of Practicing
Anthropologists (The LPO affiliated with SfAA and NAPA).
• Put together clearinghouse of students interested in
internships and employment. Internships and employment are applied
anthropology's meat.

So, I would like to see SCOPA doing more in these areas, in
collaboration with the USF Collaborative for Children, Families and
Communities.
See the Collaborative Web Site:   www.fmhi.usf.edu/
--Alvin Wolfe

Dr. Wolfe, I could not agree more with you, especailly on the last 3. It
is so very important that we showcase to the broader community our
applied skills. Peace.

-----Original Message-----
From: SCOPA@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SCOPA@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Alvin W. Wolfe
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 10:23 PM
To: SCOPA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SCOPA] SCOPA and the USF COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES
AND COMMUNITIES


At last Thursday's meeting of the Neighborhoods and Communities
Workgroup (Thursday, 5/19/2005)of the USF Collaborative for Children
Families and Communities, the participants discussed and finally
listed a number of "lessons learned" during the past several years of
workgroup activities, and then proceeded to identifiy some things "To
Do" in the near future.

Many of the items on the "To Do" list are things that are right up
the applied anthropology alley.  Some examples:

* Database on dissertation and theses.  We already maintain
that kind of list for MA and PhD theses and dissertations in applied
anthropology.
* Develop a community of students interested in this work.  We
pretty much have that in our applied anthropology programs - but we
should probably communicate more with students in other disciplines.
* Ask Alumni Association to organize a group and $ for
community engagement.  A few years ago we established an Anthropology
Alumni Society, but it has been inactive for a year. Time to
resuscitate and mingle with others.
* Use graduates to be advocates and resources.  Anthropologists
need to do more in this area, although we have not been dormant.
* Explore linkage agent role for Collaborative of organizations
such as the Tampa Bay Chapters of the American Society of Public
Administrators and the National Association of Social Workers, and
(last but not least!) the Suncoast Organization of Practicing
Anthropologists (The LPO affiliated with SfAA and NAPA).
* Put together clearinghouse of students interested in
internships and employment. Internships and employment are applied
anthropology's meat.

So, I would like to see SCOPA doing more in these areas, in
collaboration with the USF Collaborative for Children, Families and
Communities.
See the Collaborative Web Site:   www.fmhi.usf.edu/
--Alvin Wolfe






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i agree!
This is the spirit of applied/practicing anthropology. Also, FICS is
happy to coordinate with any efforts to link anthropologists to
communities in collaboration with these efforts.
I wonder if there should be some sort of meeting or get together so all
these groups can talk and exchange ideas?
If we wanted to have this, I propose we do not do it on USF campus,
since parking has become sooo difficult. La Tam would seem to be a good
option, maybe Children's Board conference room or even our new
Multicultural Center (but we are way out in TNC). I get back from Puerto
Rico at the end of the month.
A

Alvin W. Wolfe wrote:

>At last Thursday's meeting of the Neighborhoods and Communities
>Workgroup (Thursday, 5/19/2005)of the USF Collaborative for Children
>Families and Communities, the participants discussed and finally
>listed a number of "lessons learned" during the past several years of
>workgroup activities, and then proceeded to identifiy some things "To
>Do" in the near future.
>
>Many of the items on the "To Do" list are things that are right up
>the applied anthropology alley.  Some examples:
>
>• Database on dissertation and theses.  We already maintain
>that kind of list for MA and PhD theses and dissertations in applied
>anthropology.
>• Develop a community of students interested in this work.  We
>pretty much have that in our applied anthropology programs – but we
>should probably communicate more with students in other disciplines.
>• Ask Alumni Association to organize a group and $ for
>community engagement.  A few years ago we established an Anthropology
>Alumni Society, but it has been inactive for a year. Time to
>resuscitate and mingle with others.
>• Use graduates to be advocates and resources.  Anthropologists
>need to do more in this area, although we have not been dormant.
>• Explore linkage agent role for Collaborative of organizations
>such as the Tampa Bay Chapters of the American Society of Public
>Administrators and the National Association of Social Workers, and
>(last but not least!) the Suncoast Organization of Practicing
>Anthropologists (The LPO affiliated with SfAA and NAPA).
>• Put together clearinghouse of students interested in
>internships and employment. Internships and employment are applied
>anthropology's meat.
>
>So, I would like to see SCOPA doing more in these areas, in
>collaboration with the USF Collaborative for Children, Families and
>Communities.
>See the Collaborative Web Site:   www.fmhi.usf.edu/
>--Alvin Wolfe
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Yikes, this is happening all over Florida. Yesterday, FICS just met with
residents of Punta Gorda who were not only displaced by the hurricane,
but now are not receiving the answers they hoped for from the City or
County.  Development is booming post hurricane like never before - which
means we will probably have scores of communities in the same situation
by this time next year.

A dialogue about this development - and what it means for any sense of
historic preservation or community - needs to begin and be sustained.

Our group decided to do the following:

1.  Form an email list
2.  Embark on a letters to the editor campaign
3.  Invite elected officials and city managers to a future meeting
4.  Evaluate their efforts on 6/26

Good luck
A

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>
>     In downtown Lakeland, Florida, there is a low income neighborhood
>     that has
>     been bought out (without most of the occupants knowing about it)
>     and the
>     plans are to convert the area to high price condos. Many of the people
>     are going to have a hard, if not impossible, time finding a place
>     to live.
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>     I've attached the two Lakeland Ledger articles about this situation to
>     this email. I'm also going to write a letter to the Lakeland Ledger
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>
>     I would like suggestions on how to deal with this, and hopefully fight
>     this. The church Sue and I! attend (when we're away from the
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>     might get
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 6:27 PM
Subject: FW: Healthy Marriage Research Initiative funding announcement





Be advised the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation at the
Administration for Children & Families has announced a funding
opportunity for those interested in conducting research involving the
Healthy Marriage Initiative (HHS-2005-ACF-OPRE-OJ-0090).

HEALTHY MARRIAGE RESEARCH INITIATIVE GRANTS To stimulate and fund short
and long-term studies focused on healthy marriage in population groups
for which a limited body of research exists.
This means, primarily, lower-income individuals and couples, including
but not limited to those in poverty, as well as ethnic and racial
minority groups.  (e.g., Latino/Hispanic, African-American, Native
American, Asian and Pacific Islander).  Federal funding under this
announcement will be approved to support research and evaluation
activities only, not program operation or service provision.

|-------------------------------------+---------------------------------
----|
|Anticipated Total Priority Area      |$900,000
|
|Funding:                             |
|
|-------------------------------------+---------------------------------
----|
|Anticipated Number of Awards:        |4 to 8
|
|-------------------------------------+---------------------------------
----|
|Ceiling on Amount of Individual      |$200,000 per budget period
|
|Awards:                              |
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|-------------------------------------+---------------------------------
----|
|Floor on Amount of Individual Awards:|None
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|-------------------------------------+---------------------------------
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|Average Projected Award Amount:      |$150,000 per budget period
|
|-------------------------------------+---------------------------------
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Eligible Applicants:
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Due Date For Letter of Intent or Pre-applications:
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                                        Marriage research funding

                                        announceme   nt

















FYI

Carola B. Pike, MSW, LCSW
Children and Families Program Specialist Administration for Families and
Children Region IV  Southeastern United States Atlanta Federal Center
61 Forsyth Street, S.W, Suite 4M60
Atlanta, GA  30345-8909
Phone 404-562-2907     Fax 404-562-2964

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Subject: [friendsnrc] FW: Healthy Marriage research funding announcement

FYI - The correct contact information for this announcement:

Program Office Contact: OPRE Grant Review Team, Xtria, LLC, 8045
Leesburg Pike, Suite 400, Vienna, VA 22182, phone: 877-663-0250, e-
mail: opre@....
     Grants Management Office Contact: Sylvia Johnson, Administration for
Children and Families, Office of Grants Management, Division of
Discretionary Grants, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., 4th Floor West,
Washington, DC 20447, phone: 202-401-4524, e-mail:
syjohnson@....

NOTE:  The contacts are NOT Irene Bocella or Peter Thompson as listed
below.

Melissa
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To: Brodowski, Melissa (ACF)
Subject: Federal Register Alert

Title: Grants and Cooperative Agreements; Availability etc.: Healthy
Marriage Initiative

Category: Funding Announcements

Issuing Agency: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES Administration for
Children and Families

Action: Funding Opportunity

Issue Date Month/Year: June 2005

Citation: Federal Register: June 6, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 107) Page
32815-32825

URL:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo
.gov

/2005/05-11191.htm

Summary: The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), within
the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announces the
availability of funds to support new research under the Healthy Marriage
Research Initiative. Applications for both short-term
(12-17 months) and long-term (up to 60 months) studies will be
considered. OPRE will consider applications in three broad categories of
evaluation and research: intervention studies; basic studies; and
methodological and analytical studies.

[Editor's Note: The URLs in the checklist tables on page 32820 are
inoperative, due to a formatting problem. To access these forms, please
open this link or paste it into your browser.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofs/forms.htm
Also, the URL for the Conceptualizing
and Measuring Healthy Marriages for Empirical Research and Evaluation
Studies brief is inoperative, due to a formatting problem. To access
this brief, open this link or paste it into your browser.
http://www.childtrends.org/_catdisp_page.cfm?LID=141#MarriageFamily  The
URL for the Service Delivery Settings and Evaluation Design Options for
Strengthening and Promoting Healthy Marriages reports is incorrect.
The correct URL is
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/strengthen/serv_delivery/.]

Action Date: Due Date For Letter of Intent or Preapplications: June 27,
2005.
Due Date for Applications: July 26, 2005.

Contact: Program Office Contact: Irene Bocella, Children's Bureau, 330 C
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20447, phone: 202-205-1723, e-mail:
ibocella@....
     Grants Management Office Contact: Peter Thompson, Grants Officer,
Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau, 330 C
Street, SW. Room 2070, Washington, DC 20447, phone: 202-401-4608, e-
mail: pathompson@....

Full Text: To access the complete notice, please open this link or paste
it into your browser.
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-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@...
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Angela Jancius
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:47 PM
To: urbanth-l@...
Subject: [URBANTH-L] Call for Chapters: Killer Commodities: A Critical
Anthropological Examination of Corporate Products and Public Health

Call for Book Chapters

Killer Commodities:
A Critical Anthropological Examination of Corporate Products and Public
Health Edited by Merrill Singer, Ph.D. and Hans Baer, Ph.D.
Publisher: AltaMira Press

Almost every day there are fresh accounts plastered across newspaper
headlines and broadcast solemnly on the evening news of consumer products,
ostensibly designed to meet consumer wants and desires, that turn out to be
deadly in their unintended effects. From a long and ever growing list of
pharmaceutical products to children's toys, the public health has suffered
because very unsafe items regularly reach consumer hands. The costs are
telling. In this book, we refer to these products as "killer commodities,"
consumer goods produced and marketed by leading corporations that turn out
before long to be highly dangerous and sometimes fatal for consumers or
others. In retrospect, it is not uncommon to learn that producers of these
toxic products had some degree of awareness that their goods might be
hazardous, but the appeal of untold fortune pushed them to mass
distribution. This edited volume, a companion to the recently published
Unhealthy Health Policies (AltaMira 2004), will include original chapters
from critical medical anthropologists and other health social scientists
from around the world. Also included in the book will be chapters that
address deadly aspects of the corporate production processes as well as
health-threatening environmental destruction tied to commodity production.

United around a common theme of substantial consequence: what is the extent
of harm wrought by unsafe, unsound, and inadequately tested consumer goods
from manufacture to discard, the chapters in this book will address the ways
in which the damage of dangerous corporate production is distributed in
society in light of the existing configuration of social inequality between
nations, social classes, ethnic/racial groups, and genders. Written in the
vogue of the new public-focused anthropology, the book argues that the
public has not been granted a full and complete airing of the public health
aspects of many of the products they consume.

If you are interested in contributing a 30 page (double spaced) chapter for
consideration for inclusion in this timely volume, please send a one page
description with title, brief chapter overview, author(s) name and
affiliations/discipline, availability to complete the chapter by the Spring
2006, and willingness to make changes in your draft based on comments by the
editors, as well as inquires by July 15, 2005 to:

Merrill Singer anthro8566@... and Hans Baer habaer@... Merrill
Singer Center for Community Health Research Hispanic Health Council
175 Main St.
Hartford, CT 06106
(860)527-0856, EX. 253
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If nobody objects, I will send in the following SCOPA Notes:

LPO News for the SfAA Newsletter:
SCOPA (Sun Coast Organization of Practicing Anthropology)


Following up on the report in the January 2005 SfAA Newsletter about
the joint SCOPA-AntConn-USF-Collaborative-Task-Group-on-Neighborhoods-
and-Communities activities, it should be said that SCOPA continues to
collaborate with those other organizations interested in encouraging
public authorities to do proper community impact assessments of any
development or re-development projects.

We are concerned that nothing like that has been done for the
projects being contemplated to replace Central Park Village in
Tampa.  An April 29, 2005, joint City of Tampa and Tampa Housing
Authority "Request for Qualification" sent to developers made no
mention of social impact assessment even though the project will
uproot hundreds of families, sending many into other neighborhoods
where impacts will be felt as well.  SCOPA anthropologists, and
University anthropologists as well, are trying to encourage the
authorities to do a better job of planning.

On the subject of social impact assessment, it is worth mentioning
that one of SCOPA's most active early members, the late Picot Floyd,
who earned his Ph.D. in applied anthropology at the University of
South Florida in 1988, was responsible for initiating the first
municipal ordinance to require "community impact assessment" for
almost any development in the city of Clearwater, a small city
adjacent to Tampa.  In the late 1970s, Floyd received many accolades
for his innovativeness and his forward-looking initiatives as City
Manager.  But it seems strange, doesn't it, that almost thirty years
later another generation of anthropologists still has to be pleading
for public authorities to recognize the value of social impact
assessments.

--Alvin Wolfe

Looks great to me.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alvin W. Wolfe [mailto:wolfe@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 5:36 PM
To: SCOPA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SCOPA] LPO News for the SfAA Newsletter

If nobody objects, I will send in the following SCOPA Notes:

LPO News for the SfAA Newsletter:
SCOPA (Sun Coast Organization of Practicing Anthropology)


Following up on the report in the January 2005 SfAA Newsletter about
the joint SCOPA-AntConn-USF-Collaborative-Task-Group-on-Neighborhoods-
and-Communities activities, it should be said that SCOPA continues to
collaborate with those other organizations interested in encouraging
public authorities to do proper community impact assessments of any
development or re-development projects.

We are concerned that nothing like that has been done for the
projects being contemplated to replace Central Park Village in
Tampa.  An April 29, 2005, joint City of Tampa and Tampa Housing
Authority "Request for Qualification" sent to developers made no
mention of social impact assessment even though the project will
uproot hundreds of families, sending many into other neighborhoods
where impacts will be felt as well.  SCOPA anthropologists, and
University anthropologists as well, are trying to encourage the
authorities to do a better job of planning.

On the subject of social impact assessment, it is worth mentioning
that one of SCOPA's most active early members, the late Picot Floyd,
who earned his Ph.D. in applied anthropology at the University of
South Florida in 1988, was responsible for initiating the first
municipal ordinance to require "community impact assessment" for
almost any development in the city of Clearwater, a small city
adjacent to Tampa.  In the late 1970s, Floyd received many accolades
for his innovativeness and his forward-looking initiatives as City
Manager.  But it seems strange, doesn't it, that almost thirty years
later another generation of anthropologists still has to be pleading
for public authorities to recognize the value of social impact
assessments.

--Alvin Wolfe







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