RRD 182 Vision to Action: Take Charge Too

This publication provides practitioners with a basic guideline for helping communities and organizations develop a vision, and an action plan for accomplishing that vision.

Vision to Action: Take Charge Too focuses on three major objectives:

1. Applying a participatory process engaging the entire community or organization rather than just leaders.
2. Developing a community action plan identifying what will be done, who will do it, and when it will be accomplished.
3. Using a future orientation emphasizing what the community or organization wishes to preserve, change or create.

Vision to Action is organized around the action planning process (what do we want to preserve, change and create). A chapter titled "Getting Started" provides a guideline for organizing the process and preparing for the workshop. A chapter titled "Purpose, Values, Vision, Action" focuses on a community workshop that is held to develop vision statements. A chapter titled "Project Planning and Implementation" outlines the basic steps communities take to develop an action plan for accomplishing the vision, and then to implement the plan. A chapter titled "Measuring Momentum" provides guidelines for how to keep the process going.

Additional information that may be useful at various stages of the visioning process is also provided. A chapter titled "Community Assessment" discusses various methods for examining community trends. A chapter titled "Monitoring and Evaluation" provides a rationale for monitoring and evaluating the visioning process, and offers strategies and examples as well.

Table of Contents

Vision to Action: Take Charge Too is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format:

Vision to Action: Take Charge Too (6,206 kb)

Vision to Action: Take Charge Too is also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format in by chapter:

• Table of Contents, Overview and Getting Started (1,794 kb) (Note: The table of contents includes links to chapter and section pages)
• Purpose, Values, Vision, Action (539 kb)
• Project Planning and Implementation (492 kb)
• Maintaining Momentum (482 kb)
• Community Assessment (610 kb)
• Monitoring and Evaluation (488 kb)
• Appendix 1 (848 kb)
• Appendix 2, overheads (973 kb)

North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
Iowa State University
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Ames, IA 50011-1050
(515) 294-8321, (515) 294-3180 fax

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