What changes have been made in the way your community recruits and trains new leaders?
I think we used to try to recruit in a larger non personal way, now we are trying to look at our community and ask ourselves who could we invite to help us.
Are different kinds of people (representing more sectors or parts of the community) now participating in community leadership?
A younger segemnt of our population is getting involved in the Horizon projects. Local clubs are seeing a greater number of students participating. Horizons is targeting Jr High and High School students to start blogging.
How does your plan for poverty reduction link with existing leaders, groups and organizations?
The Economic Development group of Horizons plans to present our business plan for the Presho Thrift Store to the Presho Chamber and the City of Presho to get their support. We will also be asking local clubs for donations. A Modern Woodmen matching fundraiser is tenatively set for May.
What kinds of concrete steps are being taken by your community to address poverty?
The Horizons group has made the decision to go ahead with the Thrift Store idea. A building has been secured and volunteers are being found. Change Presho containers are being placed in business’s to collect money for startup costs. A name contest is being held to get community interest. A board is being assembled to oversee the Change Presho projects, this includes the Thrift Store. A business plan is being prepared for the Thrift Store. There are many concrete steps being taken to get closer to our goal of opeing a Thift Store in Presho.
At the February 25 meeting we decided to meet on Monday, March 31st. We will be doing a blog training at the school. The meeting will start at 6 in the Home Ec Room, everyone is asked to bring bars or cookies for the blog training. The training will start at 7.
We also decided that we need to have 1 person in charge of the monthly meeting, I have the sign up sheet. Please let me know if you can a month.
March-Dawn Keyes
April-Teresa Shook
May- Sandi Neal
June-Carol B
July-
August-Michelle
September Deb Smith
October-
November-
December-
On your month you are in charge of the food, agenda and reminders.
We also decided to meet the 4th Monday of the month, I know March is the 5th Monday, but we had to deal with Easter.
Please get as many people as you can to come to the blogging training. Thank you. Teresa
The canisters for the project have been ordered and should be here soon. I have talked with Pastor Lori and I will meet with the Youth Group on Feb. 26.
We should have a canister at the Farm and Home show and a very good explanation what Change Presho is. Since the Thrift Store is what the community was interested in having the money used for that is also a issue we need to be well versed in. I am currently working on lots of info for the Thrift Store and will make another post on that before the Farm and Home Show.
We need to decide which business’s the canisters will go in and who will be in charge of getting the money collected and where that money will be kept. Lots of questions, we need to have a meeting as soon as possible.
We need more volunteers to man the booth at the Farm and Home Show!! We still have about 3 hours open and that is having only one person there at a time. Even if you can only stay for 1/2 an hour please let the public know that you support Horizons and what we are trying to do for the community.
Please let me know ASAP if you can be there on Feb 23.
There will be wireless internet access, so we can show the blog, if you have any ideas what you think we should showccase at our booth please comment. Thank you
We need to decide on a set date to hold a monthly meeting, talking with a few people the 1st Tuesday of the month has been discussed. Comments are welcome on this! There will never be a perfect date for everyone, so if we can plan for it maybe more people can come.
We really need to get more people involved, there is a lot of work to be done and only a few of us to do it. So please recruit some newcomers, Presho needs some new faces involved in community issues. I know everyone’s time is limited but if we don’t JUST DO IT nothing will ever get done.
I wanted to report on the seminar Michelle and I attended in Wall on Feb. 12. There was 4 people from Murdo, 2 from Wall, the Mayor and his wife, and another man I can’t remember where he was from. There was 2 speakers, Marty from SDSU, an economist, he had some interesting numbers on what our counties have been doing and the future if things keep going as they are. Jim, from the Business Development Center in Rapid City gave a great presentation about all of the support available to communities in SD. Rural Deveopment was represented and discussed the support they provide to areas with low income. I think it was worth the trip, Michelle and I will talk more about what we learned at our next meeting.
Please choose one or two questions in EACH category to address on your blog:
Category 3: Taking Action on Poverty
What kinds of concrete steps are being taken by your community to address poverty?
How did your community make choices about the actions most likely to have an impact on poverty?
How are low income involved?
How does your plan for poverty reduction link with existing leaders, groups and organizations?
What other partnerships will help your community carry out its poverty reduction plan?
Category 7: Taking Action on Leadership
How has your community leadership expanded?
What changes have been made in who is now involved in leadership positions?
Are more people participating in leadership?
Are different kinds of people (representing more sectors or parts of the community) now participating in community leadership?
Does the community leadership reflect the community’s demographic profile?
Are more low income people participating in community leadership?
What changes have been made in the way your community recruits and trains new leaders? Sustains existing leaders?