Inspiring Results in Ten Days
06.15.2009 // by: Alison
Thanks to the dedication of Stand’s wonderful volunteers, we are proud to announce the successful completion of our Ten Percent in Ten Days initiative. From the opening night of Riverbend – Friday, June 5 – through the Chattanooga Market last Sunday, June 14, the Stand Campaign set out to collect 2,500 responses to its four-question visioning survey, roughly 10% of the overall goal of 25,000 responses. Our final tally for the ten day period came out to 2,618 – well over target.
Stand’s team of field organizers and volunteers hit the pavement to ask festival-goers how to make our region a better place in the future, and found their own inspiration from the people they met along the way. Says volunteer Scott Crawford, “It was great to hear about the real Chattanooga from the people of Chattanooga because even with our flaws and faux pas the number one answer I got regarding people’s favorite part of the city was the kindness of its residents.”
Similarly, field organizer Blair Waddell sat down to talk with an elderly couple before the Willie Nelson show on a bench overlooking the Tennessee River. “What was most interesting was realizing that I, someone from the younger generation, was having a conversation with these people who’ve known Chattanooga throughout many of its transformations and that we were coming together in a call for Chattanooga’s future. It was a fifteen minute conversation that gave me a better understanding of how important this process and campaign is in bringing people together.”
An incentive to participation in Ten in Ten was a $100 cash prize to three random survey participants, which were awarded yesterday to Andy Powell from Ooltewah, TN, Rebecca Holder from Signal Mountain, TN, and Michael Parson from Chickamauga, GA. Congratulations to these three Chattanooga area residents and to all Stand Campaign volunteers and participants.
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