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Imagine Greater Tucson: Powerpoint PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Keri L. Silvyn
What Is Imagine Greater Tucson?
• Community-based collaborative effort
• Create a common vision
• Action plan to bring the vision to reality
Our Origins
Imagine Greater Tucson organizedInitiating Team of 125 diverse individualsEarly 2009
Process kicked offSept. 30th, 2010
The Purpose
To Make our Community a Vibrant and Healthy Place to Live, Work, Learn, and Play for Current and Future Generations of all Ages.
In these times, our region needs to focus our energy and resources.
Think ahead to proactively shape our region for future generations
““Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”
– John Wooden
Do you know where we are
headed?
OUR REGION
What Is Our Process?
“Talk Phase” Goals
• Learn what people value about the Tucson region
• Identify the shared values
Qualitative Insights into Core Values:
Community Conversations and Web Surveys
1. What do you like about living in the Tucson region? Why?
2. What would you change or improve? Why?
Projecting Core Values for the Community
Random Sample/Statistically Valid Survey
• Confirming and supplementing qualitative findings
• Providing data to “inform” the modeling process
“Talk Phase”
Input to dateDecember 1, 2010
• 3,000 community members connected
• 600 surveys complete
• 200 community conversation attendees
• Hundreds have contributed
• Almost 10,000 values collected to date
“Think Phase”(We are still talking though)
• Compare our “probable future” to our identified values
• Create alternative future scenarios
• Engage the public; assess scenarios
“Action” Phase Goal
• Develop actions plans • Integrate strategies into plan updates and
public policy
• Continually follow up with governing
policy makers
Imagine Greater Tucson Process 2010 – 2012)
Surveys
Panels
Community Conversations
Collecting Values
Probable Future (Status Quo)
Alternate Future AAlternate Future BAlternate Future CAlternate Future D
Identify Preferred Future
Develop Actions and Strategies
Policy, Leadership, GovernmentEnvironment/Growth StrategiesFinancial/Economic Development
How Is This Funded?
• Cash and in-kind
• All sectors of the community
• Broad and diverse support
• Grants
To date:$550,000
Goal:$1,200,000
How Can You Get Involved?
Participate in Community Conversations
Take the Survey
DONATE!
Learn More
Spread the Word
www.ImagineGreaterTucson.org
Keri L. Silvyn
Thank you!Questions?
www.ImagineGreaterTucson.org
(520) 209-2IGT
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