Nicol Turner has over ten years of experience working with both organizations and communities in the areas of local asset-mapping, resource mobilization, organizational development and management, and community organizing. Ms. Turner is the Executive Director and founder of the Neighborhood Technology Resource Center located in Chicago, Illinois. She is also President of Net Consulting Group, located in Evanston, Illinois, and is a current Research Fellow with Northwestern University's Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD).
During the last ten years, Nicol Turner has served as a consultant in New York, Illinois, Michigan, and Georgia. The City of Chicago, the City of Savannah (Georgia), Chicago Women in Trades, Communities First (Benton Harbor, Michigan), Oak Park Public Library System, South Shore Bank (Chicago), United Airlines, and the Woodstock Institute (Chicago) are among current and past sponsors of her work. She has also published several articles on ways to identify, document and mobilize community assets.
Ms. Turner's current focus on technology is related to ways that the asset-based approach to community-building can be strengthened through new technologies. Located in a multi-family affordable housing development in Chicago's West Town community, the Neighborhood Technology Resource Center's mission is to use an asset-based approach in the creation of educational, career/enterprise development, and job placement technology programs and tools to prepare users for social and economic self-sufficiency. Ms. Turner is currently providing technical assistance to community technology centers on technical infrastructure development and organizational development. In 2001, Ms. Turner will be opening a new community technology center in Chicago's Homan Square community.
Ms. Turner has taught at Northwestern and North Park Universities. She received her M.A. in Organizational Development/Sociology from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), where she is a doctoral candidate.
Her publications include:
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A Guide to Mapping and Mobilizing the Associations in Local Neighborhoods (co-authored with John McKnight and John Kretzmann of Northwestern University)
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Voluntary Associations in Low-Income Neighborhoods: An Untapped Community Resource (co-authored with John McKnight and John Kretzmann of Northwestern University)
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The Richness of Benton Harbor, Michigan (co-authored with Myra Johnson and Arthus Lyons of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis)
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Local Assets & Community Economic Development: The Power of Austin Associations
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Creating a Neighborhood Learning & Employment Network in West Town
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