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Siloam Springs Reaches Out to the Whole Community August 2001
Congratulations to the Siloam Springs VISION 2010 Steering
Committee for involving its entire community in envisioning their
future. We have had over a dozen visioning meetings and interacted
with about a thousand people, states Bruce Jenkins of Siloam
Springs (rojo@tcainternet.com).
Siloam Springs has also done an excellent job of reaching the
Hispanic community. At one meeting, fifty people showed up, and the
entire meeting was held in Spanish. Once I told them that the
leadership of our community wanted to know what they would like to
see in the community, their eyes just lit up, states Jenkins.
Bruce described the following key points for involving your
community in a visioning process:
- To reach a lot of people in the community, it is easiest to meet
with existing organizations.
- We put all of our results on our website, and use e-mail and phone
to communicate.
- Scrap conventional advertisements for reaching the Hispanic
community, and start with all companies and organizations that have
bi-lingual employees.
Paul Joseph, Siloam Springs Chamber of Commerce, is the main contact
person for the Siloam Springs VISION 2010 Steering Committee (dpjoseph@cox-internet.com).
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