Do you live in Morningside? We want to hear from you! Nearby Neighbors in Highland Park, East Liberty & Stanton Heights are also invited! Morningside includes: 5400 block of Stanton (Union Project side of street) 5400 blocks of Jackson, Avondale, Wellesley 800 and 900 blocks of Heth’s, Highview, Jancey, Chislett. Morningside Area Community Council (MACC) wants to know: How can we reach YOU!? Three Cs Initiative: Community. Consensus. Communication. Exciting developments are underway in Morningside – popular seasonal activities, new businesses, new residents, the development of the Morningside Elementary School and so much more! MACC wants to more effectively communicate – to each other as well as to the broader Pittsburgh community -- about Morningside and its many assets. MACC has engaged communications partners – Diane Wuycheck along with Patricia Murphy -- to work with us to build a communications strategy and a mechanism for implementing it. This initiative is being funded by a grant from the City’s Urban Redevelopment Authority. Diane has 30+ years of marketing and communications experience. Pat is a community development professional, the author of the book “Organizing for Community Controlled Development: Renewing Civil Society” and a professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Social Work. MACC encourages the involvement and input of all! The communications strategy will be built by you and for you through a series of interactive methods with multiple opportunities for the community to come together, provide insights and ideas about communications. We will work toward consensus on how we communicate about Morningside The process starts this month! Plan to attend a community meeting – whether or not you are a MACC member. Bring your family and friends. These will be facilitated discussions with a set of goals to cover – for example, Morningside’s strengths and weaknesses regarding communications; Morningside issues you want to hear more about; communications means you prefer (newsletter, email, phone, social media), etc. All meetings will be held at the VFW building at 1820 Morningside Avenue. Wednesday, March 24, from 6-8 p.m. Come to the meeting and enter a drawing to win 2 tickets to Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre's Beautiful Dreamers by Martin Giles, featuring the music of Stephen Foster! [Come even if you can only stay a little bit of the time!] A summary of the discussions will be posted on MACC’s Web site for review and comment. Then, a third community meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 14, from 6-8 p.m. to come to consensus on what the MACC communications priorities should be for 2010 based on your input. Those recommendations will form the basis of MACC’s 2010 Communications Plan. Questions?? Contact Grant Ervin, MACC president, at grant_ervin@hotmail.com http://www.morningside-pa.org/ MACC regular meetings are the first Wednesday of each month at the Morningside VFW, 7:00 pm. Michelle Belan michelle@belancreative.com