Community Spotlight
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Through
our website we will constantly be highlighting wonderful programs and
people behind the Community Indicators. Do you have a person or a
program you would like to nominate? If so, click here to fill out the nomination form. Share the Vision Share the Vision, Spartanburg County’s long-range strategic planning initiative housed at the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce, began a re-visioning initiative in 2003 to develop a new strategic plan for the Spartanburg community. More than 400 citizens have participated in a series of visioning workshops to brainstorm ideas around the themes of Livability, Health, Education, Economic Vitality, Community Appeal, Inclusiveness and Governance. These ideas will be turned into goal statements on a “Commitments List” of actual projects and initiatives. Each goal included on the new Commitments List will have a champion – a community-based organization that takes responsibility for making the goal a reality. The new Community Indicators Report, published by The Spartanburg County Foundation in partnership with United Way of the Piedmont, includes inspiring community goals based on the indicators in each focus area of the report. The two initiatives, Share the Vision’s Commitments List and The Spartanburg County Foundation’s Community Indicators, compliment and strengthen each other, but have very different outcomes. While the Community Indicators seek to change the stats by showing us where many of our challenges lie, Share the Vision’s goals seek to change the landscape by articulating the projects and initiatives that will move us forward as a community.
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