Events

Coalition for a Better Iowa Summer Workshop

Please save the date: Thursday, July 15, 2010 from 9:30am to 3:30pm.

The Coalition for a Better Iowa (CBI) will be holding its summer workshop on Thursday, July 15, 2010 at Adventureland Inn just east of Des Moines off I-80 (3200 Adventureland Drive, Altoona.) Registration starts at 9:30am and the workshop will end at 3:30pm.

The purpose of the workshop is to learn about effective messaging and framing to accomplish the goal of sustaining needed state services by securing enhanced state revenues to finance those services."

The keynote morning workshop on framing the message will be provided by Patrick Bresette, Associate Program Director at Demos. The afternoon sessions include three breakout workshops on:

• The Myth of State Overspending
• State Underinvestment in Needed Services
• Obtaining Adequate State Revenues to Meet Iowans' Needs

Attendees will participate in each of the afternoon workshops with the afternoon.s goal being agreement on CBI's top priorities and developing a strategy to promote these priorities during this fall.s campaign and in the next legislative session.

Patrick Bresette is responsible for taking the work of Demos out to the states and partner organizations and seeking ways to imbed the lessons learned and strategies developed into the everyday work of the many stakeholders for an effective public sector.

Demos is a multi-issue national organization combining research, policy development, and advocacy to influence public debates and catalyze change. Demos works at both the national and state level with advocates and policymakers to promote reforms and help build the capacity and skills of key progressive constituencies.

Patrick comes to Demos after thirteen years as Associate Director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities and before that as a legislative aide in the Texas House of Representatives. He brings with him a broad understanding of how to work with and within the public sector for positive social change. His years of work leading the policy team at CPPP, spearheading the organization's legislative initiatives, and leading diverse coalitions of partner organizations situate him well for this workshop.