With examples and tips for forming an effective community advisory team, this chapter provides a community with the tools to assemble a team to guide their Heart & Soul Community Planning project to successful completion.
This chapter of the Heart & Soul Handbook, Forming your Heart & Soul Community Planning Community Advisory Team, explains the steps necessary in pulling together an effective community advisory team.
Different from a committee, this team embodies the spirit of the community and moves the project forward while keeping the local values at the forefront. Providing big picture reminders, selection tips, and recruiting ideas, this chapter provides all the information to find a successful team. Once selected, the team must then be structured and roles assigned to each person. With examples from on-the-ground teams, this chapter provides ideas for how to run successful meetings and build a good team dynamic. The importance of an effective community advisory team cannot be overlooked and this chapter helps communities build a team that will lead to success.
In 2008, the Orton Family Foundation pioneered Heart & Soul Community Planning, a process that has so far been piloted in selected communities in New England and the Rocky Mountains. The Foundation is currently in the process of developing a H&S Handbook that describes the entire process, first explaining the reasoning behind Heart & Soul Community Planning, then walking through the steps to achieve an inclusive, enduring, long-term community plan. With detailed descriptions of new tools and methods and examples from on the ground, this handbook is a resource for planners and citizens alike.
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