Grangeville, ID

Our Coordination System Action team met and held a conference call with Jackson, Minnesota to learn how they set up their Community Foundation. Also present at this meeting were Chin Le and Katie Cooper from neighboring community, Cottonwood. As we explore forming a community foundation/coalition, we are considering making the non-profit bigger than just the Grangeville community and inviting the Cottonwood Horizons to join us in our efforts. Our hope is to begin thinking more regionally rather than just as one community.

The converstaion with Jackson was very informative and inspiring. Jackson was a pilot Horizons community four years ago and are still going strong. They have spent a lot of time successfully developing leadership and structural change in their community. We will continue to glean information from them. Thank you Jackson!!!

Grangeville’s Leadership Development Action Team is working to “create and make a path and resources for people interested in developing leadership skills within the community”.  Their goals include:

• connecting existing community leaders with people who may be leaders on new community projects
• developing community mentoring/leadership training in the schools by placing volunteer mentors in the schools and offering monthly brown-bag lunch leadership training in the school to include youth as well as other community members

The Leadership Development Action Team’s ultimate goal is to see an increase in community members taking leadership roles. 

Leadership Development Action Team Work Plan

Eight Grangeville residents attended training on December 6th to learn about “Nonprofits that Work.”  The day long training was conducted by Kay Sohl, Executive Director of Technical Assistance for Community Services (TACS), an organization that provides training and consulting resources for non-profit organizations.  Attending from Grangeville were Mark Baker, Paul Eimers, Deanna English, Andrea Solberg, Sally Nolan, Jody Hoogland, Mary Jahn and Hanna Young.  As a result of the training, the Coordination Action Team will start to pursue receipt of 501(c)3 status for a community non-profit (possibly a community foundation) that can provide non-profit status and a coordination mechanism for all work in the community aimed at making Grangeville a thriving community for the future.

action-team-highlights.doc - Click here to read highlights from the work of the Grangeville Horizons Action Teams.

The Grangeville Horizons Steering Committee met on Tuesday, December 11, 2007.  Updates were provided by each Action Team.  There are some amazing things being done and some great ideas in development!

The next meeting of the Grangeville Horizons Steering Committee will be Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at Noon at Oscars.