How can a community rise up and imagine a new vision?
Is there opportunity for every citizen, association, and organization?
The Hometown Greencastle Initiative
The Initiative's vision is in the future; its mission, now, is a strategic process and conceptual model initiating interaction through-out the community to accomplish several goals.
- Preserving community assets
- Advocating community strengths
- Improving understanding of opportunities
- Identifying challenges to community
- Empowering citizen involvement
- Recognizing citizen participation
"COMMUNITY FORWARD" INITIATIVE
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| Elected in 2008, Mayor Sue Murray, a Hometown Alliance Member, initiated an exciting "Community Forward" citizen-led initiative. |
| August 2008: COMMUNITY FORWARD SUMMIT |
| March 2009: GREENCASTLE SUSTAINABILITY REPORT |
| May 2009: GREENCASTLE "FARMER'S MARKET" |
| May 2009: COMMUNITY FORWARD ADVISORY GROUP
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| June 2009: NIEGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES |
| Feb. 2010: YOUTH ENGAGEMENT SUMMITS (Y.E.S.) |
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May 2010: GREENCASTLE MARKETING TEAM
June 2010: COMMUNITY FORWARD BLOG
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| Contact:
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"My greatest hope is that our
community, like these 100 people
who volunteered, can rise up and rediscover itself, in exciting ways, in perhaps ways we haven't even begun to imagine yet. "
Steve Setchell,
Sustainability Commission Chair,
The DePauw 03/17/09
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THE HOMETOWN GREENCASTLE PROCESS... Contact HOMETOWN VISIONS to discuss and invent a vision for you community or organization. Schedule a Hometown Discovery Roundtable.
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