City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2012-0401

• File #: 2012-0401
• Version: 1
• Type: Proclamation
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 5/15/2012
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 5/15/2012
• Enactment date: 5/15/2012
• Enactment #: 290
• Title: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh recognizes the valuable contributions that CTAC has made to a number of community-based organizations in our City and congratulates it on over 30 years of strengthening our neighborhoods, and therefore be it further resolved that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare May 15, 2012 to be CTAC Core Series Day in the City of Pittsburgh.
• Sponsors: Natalia Rudiak, All Members
• Indexes: PROCLAMATION - MS. RUDIAK

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/15/2012	1	City Council	Adopted	Pass

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WHEREAS, The Community Technical Assistance Center (CTAC), a non-profit technical assistance agency founded in 1981, is committed to developing and strengthening neighborhoods by investing in the volunteers and staff of community-based organizations through training and customized consulting services, providing the foundation for organization leaders to develop the skills required to create and operate effective neighborhood groups, tenant councils, community-based organizations and community development corporations in Southwestern Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, CTAC's Core Series program, now in its 19th year, consists of seven workshops designed to strengthen community-based, non-profit organizations within the realms of Leadership, Board Structure & Bylaws, Foundation & Donor Relations, Conflict Management, Board Roles & Responsibilities, Strategic Planning, and Financial Management; and

WHEREAS, the following individuals have successfully completed CTAC's 2012 Core Series which ran from March 22 to May 3, 2012, featuring 42 individual community leaders from 26 different organizations and communities:


Karen Fitch, City Council
Bill Dausuel, East Tri-Borough Neighborhood Association
Ida Dausuel, East Tri-Borough Neighborhood Association
Shirlene Wilson, East Tri-Borough Neighborhood Association
Linda Gustafsson, Family Hospice & Palliative Care
Jean Schmalzried, Family Resources
Melissa Gallagher, Fineview Citizens
K. Bonnie Rose, Friendship Preservation Group
Jennifer Wilhelm, Friendship Preservation Group
Vanessa Davis, GLSEN Pittsburgh
Ian Syphard, GLSEN Pittsburgh
Margaret Baco, HUGS/Unity Through Creativity
DeAnna Davis, Larimer Consensus Group
Owen Lampe, Lawrenceville Corp.
Molly Johnson, Lawrenceville United
Claudia Presser, MCLSC
Linda Lang, Millvale Borough Development Corporation
Josh Savage, Millvale Borough Development Corporation
Tina Walker, Millvale Borough Development Corporation
Chris Beichner, Mt. Washington C...