Standing on Roots: Visioning and Revisioning in Chattanooga
05.05.2009 // by: Jessica
You may be wondering, where did Stand come from? While the campaign was conceived of and launched by a group of local volunteers, it’s built on a legacy of visioning established by Chattanooga Venture, a not-for-profit organization that created and led Vision 2000, a goal-setting process with more than 1,700 local participants over a 20-week period in 1984.
The ideas generated were used to shape 40+ goals for the city to accomplish by the year 2000, supporting citizens’ emphasis on quality of life. Vision 2000 led to more than 200 projects and programs and a community investment of over $800 million from public and private funders.
Building on Vision 2000, ReVision 2000 was initiated in 1993 and drew 2,600 participants, resulting in 27 goals and 122 recommendations for the future.
And now, Stand revisions the revisioning process, with a greater emphasis on wide-spread involvement by residents from all corners of the Chattanooga region. Stand’s founding volunteers research best practices in recent community visioning processes across North America, including Portland’s “Vision PDX”, Calgary’s “imagineCALGARY”, Greenville’s “Plan-It Greenville” and Knoxville’s “Nine Counties. One Vision.”
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