2025 ACDS Conference
BUILDING BLOCKS OF
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
APRIL 1, 2025 | CONWAY, AR
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Get ready – you’re about to explore an outstanding opportunity that promises to help build your understanding and network with future leaders on community and economic development.
At the Arkansas Community Development Society’s annual conference, we are covering a wide range of critical topics on housing, artificial intelligence, building community connections, and public-private partnerships. Whether you’re looking to absorb cutting-edge insights on local projects happening in Arkansas or build meaningful relationships with community development influencers, this is the conference to do both.
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We will also highlight exemplary community development projects, people, and organizations during out ACDS Community Development awards lunch ceremony, which is always a highlight each year for conference participants.
You will not want to miss the opportunity to network with community development influencers from across Arkansas and share success stories and resources to help your community flourish. Please share with others that might be interested.
About ACDS
The Arkansas Community Development Society is an educational nonprofit organization whose purpose is to advance community development and the community development profession by:
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Providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and the development of common interest among the members of the Society
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Providing for the publication and dissemination of community development information to members of the public
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Advocating excellence in community development scholarship research and practice for the good of mankind
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Promoting citizen participation as essential to effective community development
Letter From Our President
Dear Fellow Community Developers,
Hello and thank you for your interest in the Arkansas Community Development Society. Just about anything that can affect the people of a community and improve their comfort and well being can be considered as falling under the community development umbrella. With that being said, we all have an opportunity to impact our communities through various activities, volunteering and even serving as leaders are some examples. The opportunities are endless. Even a few hours picking up trash helps improve your community. As well, consider yourselves ambassadors of your community. Look for and speak to the good in your community. Focusing on opportunities and strengths can help keep the efforts positive. We all have hidden community assets that we have not yet fully tapped, especially in use of our human capacity. And remember, community development precedes economic development. Let’s share our success stories through our community developers network so that we can grow as communities and as a state. See you at the April conference.
Tandee White, PCED
ACDS President