Strategic SpartanburgCollaborating for Community ChangeNews and NotableWe have restructured our homepage to share the latest information about what
is going on in the Spartanburg County community related to the goals found in
the Community Improvement Plan. If your group would like their project or event
listed here, please click here. If you would like help developing a Community Indicators project or event,
please let us know. We welcome all support, big and small, for our project.
Goal 1:More than 77 percent of South Carolina 10th-graders passed the state's HSAP exit
exam on their first attempt during spring 2007. That represented nearly a 2.4
percentage-point improvement over 2006 and a 5.3 percentage point improvement
over 2005. To read the complete article click here.
Goal 8:Through CitizenObserver, residents and businesses can sign up for free to receive
crime alerts via e-mail, cell phones, pagers and fax. To enroll, visit the department's
Web site at spsdonline.org or call police at 596-2035. Officers also will be visiting
local businesses to explain how the program works and how to register.
Crime, arrests rise in Spartanburg County. To read more about the data click
here.
Spartanburg residents now can text tips to police through an anonymous text message program geared toward young people scared to give police information on crime in the community. Text-a-tip, announced Thursday morning, is already up and running and one of only a few similar programs in the nation, Spartanburg Public Safety Director Tony Fisher said. The message is routed through an out-of-state company, which "cleans" the message of the identifying phone number before sending it on to police, who can then text back, he said. To find out more information, click here. Goal 9:The Chapman Cultural Center is now offering more no-charge days. To find out
more information click here.
Goal 10:BI-LO tries to encourage customers to go green by offering reusable bags. To
read more about the program click here.
We hope you enjoy the site. If you ever have any questions, thoughts, or concerns, we are always here to answer them. Please help us spread the word and let your friends, family, and co-workers know about our website. If you would like to join us in improving Spartanburg County, please visit the Get Involved section of the website to find out how. |
About the Project:
Community Indicators VI: Strategic Spartanburg is a community assessment, planning
and improvement initiative sponsored by the Spartanburg County Foundation, United
Way of the Piedmont, Spartanburg County, and USC Upstate. Over the course of the
project’s many phases, literally hundreds of civic and grassroots leaders have
been involved in focus groups, taskforces, and action teams. The initiative’s
ultimate goal is to improve the quality of life for all citizens of Spartanburg
County. To find out more about the process, please explore the "What's this All
About" feature on the left navigation.
During the process, our citizens established ten community-wide goals to benchmark
Spartanburg's progress and collaborate and focus resources against community needs.
Those goals fell into the broad categories of People, Family, Community, and Place
which you will find at the top of the page. Links to each goal can be found under
those categories. Each goal has indicators, by which, its success can be measured.
You can find out more about the individual indicators for each goal, by exploring
the right navigation once on the goal page.
Contact Information:
Sharyn Pittman, Community Indicators Project Coordinator: The Spartanburg County
Foundation, 424 East Kennedy Street, Spartanburg, S.C. 29302 (864)582-0138 or
click here to send an email.
Mary Thomas: The Spartanburg County Foundation, 424 East Kennedy Street, Spartanburg,
S.C. 29302 (864)582-0138.
Kathy Dunleavy: United Way of the Piedmont, Inc. P.O. Box 5624, Spartanburg,
S.C. 29304 (864)582-7556.
