1. What is your community’s plan for maintaining a strong community leadership system?
2. How can your community sustain the changes it has already made in its leadership?
3. What structural changes have been made in how the community does its work/makes decisions?
4. What structural changes have been made so that your community leadership sustains partnerships with others?
1. What structures have been changed that will enable your community to address poverty in the long term?
2. How will you monitor and evaluate your community’s progress in reducing poverty?
3. What community resources will be needed to sustain the community plan to reduce poverty?
4. What additional resources would make a difference in your community’s work to reduce poverty?
1. In what ways is your community operating or working differently?
2. In what new or expanded ways are people contributing to your community?
3. How are low income involved?
4. What structures have been created or changed that will help your community?
5. What new partnerships have been created, and what difference have they made for your community?
6. Have you learned anything about how nearby communities like yours are taking action to reduce poverty?
7. Do you see any opportunities to exchange information or combine efforts in this work?
Post #2-November blog questionsJenille wrote on December 5, 2009 at 10:37am
1. I think more people got involved and ran for local office during the last election.
2. We have a new mayor and several new city council members.
3. I’ve seen tremendous community turnout for events such as the Vision Rally and asking questions about how to improve prosperity in the area.
4. I am not sure if different kinds of people are in leadership positions now because I’ve only lived in Challis a year.
5. We don’t have an extremely diverse demographic profile in Custer county, so I think the leadership is fairly representative of the population.
Post #2 November Blog questionsJenille wrote on November 18, 2009 at 8:28am
1. The Family Food Needs has partnered with Helping Hands and now 3500 pounds of food is brought in monthly to help feed 50 local families.
2. Our community formed study circles and committees to determine what actions they felt would have the most impact on all types of poverty in our community.
3. All residents are invited to participate and events are advertised in all available media formats so that we can get information out to everyone that might want to be involved.
4. The Recreation Committee has been meeting with the South Avenue Trail Committee (formerly the Green Belt Committee) to work on the walking path project. The Family Food Needs group has partnered with Helping Hands Food Bank. The Steering Committee recently sent two members to a grant writing seminar that will help our groups apply for grants to continue their work after the “official” end of the Horizons program.
5. Several of our Community Action Teams are important partnerships that help us to reduce poverty: The Farmers Market shows the community what fresh fruit and vegetables can be grown in Challis, the Family Food Needs has partnered with the Helping Hands foodbank, the Resource Guide Team will showcase goods and services available to our residents. Our Movie Theatre team is operated by the youth of Challis and is donating the concession proceeds to a fund to help all students be a part of sports activities and want to team up with Helping Hands.
1. How has your community leadership expanded?
2. What changes have been made in who is now involved in leadership positions?
3. Are more people participating in leadership?
4. Are different kinds of people (representing more sectors or parts of the community) now participating in community leadership?
5. Does the community leadership reflect the community’s demographic profile?
3. Taking action on poverty
1. What kinds of concrete steps are being taken by your community to address poverty?
2. How did your community make choices about the actions most like to have an impact on poverty?
3. How are low income involved?
4. How does your plan for poverty reduction link with existing leaders, groups and organizations?
5. What other partnership will help your community carry out its poverty reduction plan?
11. Taking action on community
1. In what ways is your community operating or working differently?
2. In what new or expanded ways are people contributing to your community?
3. How are low income involved?
4. What structures have been created or changed that will help your community?
5. What new partnerships have been created , and what difference have they made for your community?
6. Have you learned anything about how nearby communities like yours are taking action to reduce poverty?
7. Do you see any opportunities to exchange information or combine efforts in this work?
Due –July 31, 2009
Community: Challis
Action Team: Community/county resource guide
Person completing this form: Katherine Butts
Number of people on this Action Team: 9
Names of Action Team co-chairs: Katherine Butts and Jan Haugh
1. What is the need or issue your Action Team is tackling in your community? Lack of knowledge of existing resources and assets.
2. Who else or what existing projects are you partnering with? Chamber of Commerces, Cities, economic development offices, Helping Hands, all of our Horizons action teams, local organizations and businesses, and state commerce.
3. What goals does your Action Team have? (What do you want to accomplish in the next 2-3 years?) To compile and distribute a comprehensive booklet of local county resources.
4. What do you want your Action Team to accomplish by April 30, 2010? We would like our guide to be compiled, planned, funded and ready to send to the print shop.
5. What impact do you want your actions to have and how will you measure that impact? We want the guide to assist new community members as well as long standing members in matching their needs with resources available to them.Impact will be measured by increased resource use.
6. How will these actions reduce community poverty and/or build community leadership? The info provided will guide those in need to resources necessary to address their issues, wants and needs.
7. What initial action steps have you taken? We have assigned people specific categories to gather info and we have studied other guides. We are partway through the compilation and are starting to review the gathered info to ensure that all info is thorough and valid.
