Description: Alix W. Hopkins, author, consultant on community collaboration
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Alix Hopkins has more than 30 years of experience bringing ideas into reality. She has coordinated visionary projects for municipal governments, landowners and business people, local, state, and federal regulators, all kinds of funders, citizen supporters and opponents, and the media.
The idea of creating a trail network in Portland, Maine, for example, had been around for a hundred years without ever taking form. As the first executive director of Portland Trails , Alix mobilized the leadership and funding to bring this vision to life. Today, Portland Trails is one of the state's most successful and transformative public/private partnerships.
To inspire up-and-coming community leaders, Alix studied public works projects across the U.S. and wrote a book, Groundswell: Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community ( Trust for Public Land , 2005), showing how neighborhood activists achieved their dreams, bringing positive impacts to entire communities. She is presently at work on a new book about similar efforts in the Middle East, where organizers must overcome daunting roadblocks not found in the U. S. These community environmental projects have b