15 YEARS OF COMMUNITY BUILDING 6 Fifteen years ago, Community Council launched a community driven, problem solving model in our region. We learned that the process works. As a catalyst for community change, it has built connections, expanded community participation, fostered deeper understandings of community challenges, changed lives, strengthened our region, and, importantly, solved problems. The Community Council model endures and continues to facilitate connections, weaving together volunteers who thoughtfully engage and identify consensus solutions to complex issues in the community. Your contributions of time and resources to Community Council in this effort enriched the regional fabric in significant and far-reaching ways. As one participant recently expressed, “I wish every region could have a Community Council where we could come together and solve issues.” We agree. And we look forward to the next 15 years! To celebrate our first 15 years, we: Interviewed 69 people in March 2024, asking them to tell us about Community Council’s impacts. Many of their comments are included in this retrospective. Created a document of interview summaries. Published this retrospective in June 2024, posting it and a summary of the interviews at www.wwcommunitycouncil.org “Community Council plants the seed and helps nurture it, and these great things then grow from it.” CHAD HICKOX President, Walla Walla Community College COMMUNITY COUNCIL’S CITIZEN DRIVEN MODEL FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE THIS IS A CELEBRATION OF OUR COMMUNITY’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND IMPACTS! COMMUNITY COUNCIL THANKS EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED! YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE! WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT 15 YEARS!
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