Priority One: Voter Registration Turnout.
- Encourage and support the League of Women Voters in collaborative efforts focusing
on voter education and awareness.
- Promote absentee voting to the general public.
- Support strategies to impact literacy.
- Through the Spartanburg Voter Registration office, develop a realtors/renters
voter change of address form that could be given to new home owners/renters to
facilitate voter registration and re-registration.
- Build a campaign to change election day for local and state elections to Saturday
(network with League of Women Voters statewide to facilitate).
- Urge the development of an educational initiative to inform people about the
impact of erratic and confusing voter district lines on people getting out to
vote and encourage a redrawing of district voting lines in simpler, more consistent
ways.
Priority Two: Charitable Giving.
- Develop a new indicator to track volunteer hours.
- Develop a new indicator to track the per capita giving in Spartanburg County.
- Work with the new Non-profit Center at University of South Carolina Upstate
to develop a mechanism for getting data from all non-profits in Spartanburg County.
- Establish criteria for and develop a “What it Takes to be a Good Citizen” campaign
to increase awareness of and communicate the responsibilities of a good citizen
at various civic levels.
- Promote workplace giving campaigns for United Way and The Arts Partnership
to businesses and corporations in Spartanburg as a norm for good corporate citizenship
and as a way to broaden the opportunity for all donors to contribute to the community.
- Establish a “Good Citizen Day” in the schools to discuss and have information
about what it takes to be a good citizen.
- Establish a “Good Citizen” recognition at various levels in the community,
from the schools to businesses to volunteers.
Priority Three: Attendance at Cultural Events.
- Show the ratio of attendance against total population figures for the county
within the indicator showing attendance at cultural events.
- Support the efforts of The Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg, which has,
as part of its long-range plan, the development and support of opportunities for
citizens to attend cultural events.
- Support local efforts to strengthen the network and cooperation among those
doing events and those “getting the word out” about events.
- Develop mechanisms to impact the mindset of Spartanburg residents to take a
more positive outlook on Spartanburg and things to do here.
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