Community Planning

We bring together stakeholder groups for visioning, work groups, and shared strategy. When Bergen Communities United, a coalition of community organizations in Jersey City, NJ, wanted to create a shared plan to revitalize their neighborhood, they asked us to design and facilitate the process. The resulting action plan defined the roles and commitments being made by each of the stakeholder groups as well as priority actions they needed from the city. Similarly, the Marketview Heights Collective Action Project in Rochester, NY, called on us when they wanted a community-defined strategy to coordinate action across different agencies (including community-based organizations, the City, and Enterprise Community Partners). We partnered with them to coordinate planning, facilitate community visioning and work groups, and develop a shared strategy with near-term actions and long-term priorities (as well as immediate actions that happened while the planning process was in motion).