Planning Stand: Join Us Tonight
10.14.2009 // by: Alison
We host Stand Planning Meetings 5-6 pm every Wednesday night at Bluegrass Grill—and tonight will be a particularly crucial one. It’s Stand’s priority to actively involved our board and to solicit input from a broader roundtable of community leaders. Our challenge to you: bring someone new to the meeting tonight.
We will discuss:
1. changing the time and place for future planning meetings
2. models for Stand’s strategy after the release of the results
3. what focus group would you like to lead?
Below, please see very brief outlines for three models for Stand’s strategy after the results are released. We hope to identify all, none, or some of the aspects of these various approaches for the Stand’s next steps. Your expertise are crucial in helping flesh these out. The strategies we adopt as a group will dictate the work we do leading up to the release of the results. Here are the three scenarios:
1. Results released. Stand identifies problems/gaps in the community based on survey and other data. Stand develops strategic action plan. Stand organizes taskforces to address issues.
2. Results released. Stand identifies pre-existing entities that represent multiple organizations within specific sectors (i.e. Chamber, Allied, Community Foundation, United Way, ect.). Stand provides them with relevant data in various, useful formats. Stand works with these overarching groups to develop a strategic plan for action. Stand develops and equips them with tools and resources necessary to implement action plan.
3. Results released. Stand employs the Starfish Method: engaging and empowering multiple individuals and small groups of people to address issues and assemble taskforces on their own, to encourage a community-owned and decentralized organization.
We don’t have many details for these three scenarios and would therefore like your help fleshing them out and deciding on a best plan of action.
If you are unable to attend tonight’s meeting, we would like to meet with you personally. Let us know when you are able to meet with us we can set up a time for a few of us to come to you.
If you ever have any ideas that you would like to share with the us and cannot attend our planning meetings that’s okay. Send us your ideas to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Thanks for your continued interest in and support of Chattanooga Stand. We look forward to your insight.
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