Delta Grassroots Caucus Events

Credit Michael Hibblen/ KUAR News, Arkansas Public Radio; Former President Bill Clinton speaking to the Delta Grassroots Caucus on May 2, 2013, at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock

U. S. Senator John Boozman, Arkansas, at a Delta Grassroots Caucus meeting at the US Capitol

Brad Cole, Executive Director of the Municipal League of Illinois; previously a senior aide to former Republican US Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, earlier Mayor of Carbondale, Illinois, veteran Delta regional advocate, speaking at the Delta regional conference in West Memphis, Arkansas on April 26, 2019.

President Bill Clinton makes a comment to Delta Caucus Director Lee Powell at a meeting in Blytheville, Arkansas (in the northeast Arkansas Delta) on Nov. 2, 2014

The Delta Caucus would like to pay tribute to the late, great U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, a powerful force in the US Senate for decades and a champion for the Delta. Sen. Cochran passed away on May 30, 2019. He spoke to the Delta Caucus on many occasions over the years (he is pictured above speaking to a Caucus event on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC) and his thoughtful, courteous and bipartisan leadership will be sorely missed.

Marcie Lawson, Executive Director, Sikeston, Missouri Regional Chamber and Area Economic Development Corporation, speaking at the Delta regional conference in West Memphis, Arkansas on April 26, 2019.

Alan Gumbel, Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce, Memphis, Tennessee, speaking at the Delta regional conference in West Memphis, Arkansas on April 26, 2019.

Mayor Shirley Washington of Pine Bluff, AR, speaking to the Delta Caucus at the Arkansas Capitol Rotunda in 2017.

Please Attend Delta Citizens Alliance events in Greenville, MS, April 23-24, 2009

Posted on April 02, 2009 at 01:02 PM

We would like to encourage all partners of the Mississippi Delta Grassroots Caucus to attend the Delta Citizens Alliance Second Annual Gathering in Greenville, Mississippi, Thursday, April 23, 2009 and Friday, April 24, 2009. The Delta Citizens Alliance is an excellent organization, and we know you will greatly benefit by going to this conference, which has the theme of “Citizen Power: Mobilizing Community Assets in an Era of Change.”

There are many distinguished speakers at this conference who have extensive expertise and experience on a broad range of subjects regarding the community and economic development of the Mississippi Delta region. A notice with the basic facts of the program is included below in this message.

You will recall that Larry Williams, CEO of the Delta Citizens Alliance, gave an excellent presentation at the Delta Grassroots Caucus conference at the Clinton Presidential Library in February this year. That morning we had many distinguished speakers, including former President Clinton and Governor Mike Beebe of Arkansas. Larry Williams spoke on that morning’s panel and I thought it was one of the best sessions we have ever had. We know that the Delta Citizens Alliance conference in Greenville will be an event you will not want to miss.

The information below is detailed. For further information, please note the following contacts:

For additional details contact:

Claudette Romious, Event Planner The Romious Group, cyromious@aol.com, (662) 627-4454

Ms. Tasha Griffin, DCA Admin. Asst. Delta Citizens Alliance, tgg@deltacitizens.org, (662) 344-9440

Thank you very much and please take part in this very important conference. Lee Powell, Executive Director, Mississippi Delta Grassroots Caucus

DELTA CITIZENS ALLIANCE SECOND ANNUAL GATHERING

CITIZEN POWER: MOBILIZING COMMUNITY ASSETS IN AN ERA OF CHANGE

Thursday, April 23 – Friday, April 24, 2009

Conference Facilitator:
Dr. John Kretzmann, Co-Director, Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, Northwestern University

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Frank Omowale Satterwhite, Founder and Sr. Adviser, National Community Development Institute (NCDI)

Members: $25 registration fee
Non-Members: $35 registration fee

LOCATION

HARLOW’S CASINO RESORT AND HOTEL, 4280 Harlow’s Boulevard Off Highway 82 GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI 38701 (662) 335-9797

RECOMMENDED CHECK-IN TIME: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 4 p.m. Check-out date/time: Friday, April 24, 2009 at 11 a.m.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the hotel and casino’s insurance liabilities and strict regulations, anyone under 21 years of age cannot be a guest on the property.