Tony Filipovitch -- Experience

Professional & Community Activity

  • Memberships
    • Urban Affairs Association (Director, 1989-93)
    • American Planning Association
    • International City/County Management Association
    • Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
    • International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR)
    • National Council for the Social Studies
  • Program Review Site Visitor
    • Program in Urban Planning & Management, United Arab Emirates University (2003)
    • Urban Studies Program, Wright State University (1996)
    • Urban Studies Program, St. Cloud State University (1995)
    • Urban Studies Program, University of San Diego (1994)
  • Community Boards & Task Forces
    • MN Dept. of Education, Social Studies Standards Committee (Co-Chair, 2011-13)
    • Greater Mankato Envision 2020 Steering Committee & Implementation Committee (2005--, Chair 2010-11)
    • Research Committee, Center for Rural Policy & Development (2008- )
    • Citizens’ Voices Mankato (2003-09)
    • Board of Directors, Mankato Area Foundation (2001-07; President, 2003-05))
    • Mankato Area Chamber and Convention Bureau, Public Policy Development Division (2000-07)
    • Board Directors, Mankato Area YMCA (1998--2004)
    • Mankato Area Growth Management Planning Study--MAGMAPS (1997-98)
    • School District 77: Long-Range Planning Committee (1995, 2002 & 2006), Demographics Advisory Committee (1993; 2011), Facility Improvement Committee (1989-90)
    • City of Mankato: Planning Commission (2003--; Vice-Chair 2006), Historic Preservation Commission (2008--; Chair, 2009-10), City Center Renaissance Task Force (2006-07), Charter Commission (1992--1996), Transit Advisory Committee (1992-95)
    • Blue Earth County, Guardian ad Litem (1992--98)
    • Chair, Region Nine Arts Advisory Council (1987-90)
    • Youth Employment Task Force, Minneapolis Community Business Employment Alliance (1986-87)
    • Public/Private Initiative Project Advisory Council, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs (1986-87)
    • Chair, Neighborhood & Physical Facilities Committee, Mankato Family Issues Task Force (1984)
  • Board/Task Force Facilitation
    • Walking in Two Worlds Program, YWCA of Mankato (2007-2012)
    • Waseca Renewable Fuels Tasks Force (2006)
    • Childcare Resource & Referral Board Strategic Planning (2005)
    • Region IX Development Commission Strategic Planning Retreat (2005)
    • Mankato Area Healthy Youth Board Retreat (2005)
    • Southern Minnesota Initiative Fund “Early Childhood Regional Coordinators’ Meeting” (2005)
    • Mankato City Council Retreat (2004)
    • Greater Mankato Area United Way, “Community Assessment Focus Groups” (2002)
    • City of Mankato/Blue Earth County Commission, “Twenty Years Hence” (2000)
    • MSU Mankato Cabinet/Faculty Association Joint Retreat (1999)
    • MSU Mankato Fiscal Affairs Division Retreat (1999)
    • Institute for Wireless Education Board Retreat (1999)
    • Southern Minnesota Youth Works Community Planning Retreat (1998)
    • Community Health Action Partnership (CHAP) Board Retreat (1997)
  • Community Teaching
    • Historical Interpretation Performances: Thomas Jefferson, Vitruvius Pollio 
    • Leader, Dakota Meadows Middle School Latin Club (1993-94)
    • Discussion Leader, Roosevelt School Junior Great Books (1987-1995)

Revised 11 July 2013
URL http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~tony/