“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford
Effective Community Leadership (Friday PM)
Participants
Facilitator/Scribe Sam Schneski / Jerelyn Wilson
Sam Schneski Jerelyn Wilson MaryLou Schmidt Pat Munson Marguerite DeMotte Matthew Hoffman Jody Normandeau Priscilla Svec Lew Sorenson Chris Evans Dwight Miller Lester Dunklee
Strengths
Friends of Library
Recreation Board
PTFO
Neighborhoods
Partridge Hill
Kipling Road
Camp Arden
Et cetera
Grange Hall
Prospect Hill Pasture Trust
Senior Meals
Select Board
School Board
Planning Commission
DRB
Historical Society
Dummerston Cares
Conservation Commission
Community Chest
Library Board
Volunteer Fire Dept.
Community Center
Elf Program
Church
Views of Dummerston
Town Meeting
Weaknesses
Results of surveys not returned
Communication lacking
Cooperation lacking
Commitment lacking
Not so many leaders under 50
Not drawing in younger people
Leaders may not know the talents
of people in town
Future
More people involved
Broader participation
More person-to-person contact
More community events to have fun together
“New blood” running events
Branch out from successful events
More liaisons between groups (ones
that are working on same issues
coordinating schedules)
Effective Community Leadership
5 Key Issues
• Good Avenues of Communication
Person to person
Group to group
Intergenerational
A variety of ways: print, internet, et cetera
• Opportunities for Socializing
Events for Dummerston community
Fun events
Neighborhood events
Community work projects
• Ways of Knowing Strengths and Talents of Residents
• Good Places To Gather and Meet
• Overcoming Geography of East and West