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Strategic Planning at the NCRCRD:
Delivering on a New Destiny
Following a broad and extensive planning process, the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development has developed the following goals for the next five years:
- Increase Capacity of Communities
- Reach Under-served and New Populations
- Convene Research Groups
- Encourage Use of Evaluation Tools
- Create an Effective Organization
The goals for the planning process were threefold: to engage a wide variety of Center stakeholders in the process, to identify key issues across the region, and to design strategies for increasing the Center’s responsiveness to regional players and their concerns. In order to make the process as comprehensive and useful as possible, Marie Hvidsten, an Extension specialist from North Dakota State University, conducted surveys with Extension directors, Experiment Station directors, community resource development program leaders and NCRCRD Board members.
The planning process was framed using an Appreciative Inquiry approach, which involves looking at four stages in the planning effort—discovery, dream, design and deliver. The Center is now engaged in the delivery stage and executing the first 15-month implementation plan emerging from this process. The goals include strategic foci for the Center in relation to topics of importance to the region and to Extension, as well as strategies for increasing the effectiveness of the Center’s core functions.
More information on the strategic plan and accomplishments to date can be found in the 2005 Annual Report of the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development at http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/pubs/contents/2005annualreport.htm.
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Central Regional Center for Rural Development
Iowa State University
107 Curtiss Hall
Ames, IA 50011-1050
(515) 294-8321, (515) 294-3180 fax
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Last updated May 12, 2006 .