Presho, SD

Question 8.  Through the Horizon session our community has learned that there are many potential leaders who can and will take charge and promote activities that they feel are important.  A number of individuals have stepped forward to help with the Thrift Store that is being started in Presho.  Different people have stepped forward to help promote and insure the success of the newly implemented Senior Meals program.  Horizons has helped to generate interest in welfare of the citizens of the community and has brought more people into the decision making process.   Communication among the citizens about the projects and donations of time and resources has increased.

Please choose one or two questions in EACH category to address on your blog:
8. Sustaining action and creating structural change around leadership
What is your community’s plan for maintaining a strong community leadership system?
How can your community sustain the changes it has already made in its leadership?
What structural changes have been made in how the community does its work/makes decisions?
What structural changes have been made so that your community leadership sustains partnerships with others?

12. Sustaining action and creating structural change around community
How will your community make decisions about seeking further resources to support its plans?
Is a system in place to seek, receive, monitor and report on new resources to support community work?
Is a system in place to maintain contact with, or to continue work with other communities? With your Delivery Organization? In other partnerships?
What new resources have been secured to assist the work of the community?

Presho: Would like to see more active users, at this time there are 1 or 2 active bloggers, and a few others who have blogged once or twice.  Technically you are meeting the requirement of having 5 bloggers for this incentive level, but only 2 of the 5 are “making contributions to the blog” consistently.  Secondly, we would like to see posts specific to progress on your goals in the strategic plan.  Overall, your community is still working at the Shoot for the Stars incentive….just barely.  Your “to do list” through the end of Horizons:

1. Get 1 or 2 more people to blog consistently through the end of the project.

2.  Add posts about the progress on strategic plans (records of committee work, meeting minutes, photos of projects in action/completed, how things have changed, etc.

3.  If you haven’t already, include answers to the monthly questions.  We would like to read more than one person’s perspective.

4.  Also, we would like to stress quality versus quantity through the end of the project.  We would really like to see posts on how your Strategic Plans are being implemented.