Strategic Spartanburg

Improved voter registration turnout, increased charitable giving, and greater attendance at cultural events should collectively help move the community forward in realizing its goal for civic engagement. The taskforce recommends more comprehensive indicator baselines be developed that would reflect more accurately the broad spectrum of civic engagement in Spartanburg County. Strategies to accomplish this range from incorporating per capita spending and volunteer hours as further expressions of charitable giving to partnering with a research-based organization such as the Non-profit Center at University of South Carolina Upstate to generate more consistent, comprehensive data.

The purpose of the 2006-2010 Community Improvement Plan is to use the data in Strategic: Community Indicators VI to influence the improvement of Spartanburg and the quality of life for its citizens.  More than 300 Spartanburg citizens contributed to the creation of the Community Improvement Plan.  Each Taskforce developed a comprehensive executive summary report plan for addressing the issues.  In the following pages you can see the priorities, opportunities, best practices, and partnerships that the Taskforces recommend using to make significant improvement.  By sharing this information it is our hope to provide a common ground for public, private and non-profit leaders to work together to address these and other related issues.