On Tuesday, November 30th from 6:00 – 8:00 PM, community members met in the New Life Church’s meeting rooms for a community meeting and visioning session.
During the visioning session, participants were asked to reflect on the following questions:
The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio’s Cause Connector initiative launched on February 10, 2021, and ran through April 9, 2021.
This initiative connected donors with nonprofit projects making a difference for the causes and communities they care about in Appalachian Ohio. Cause Connector matched donations, dollar-for-dollar, to create an even greater impact on each community’s projects. The Shadyside High School Band Program Wish List was selected for funding through the Cause Connector initiative.
The Shadyside High School music and marching band program have always been a point of pride in the community. In the past, it was common to have nearly 100 Shadyside Marching Band members marching at halftime each Friday night in the fall. The program hopes to bring back those historic numbers and infuse new life into the program.
The Cause Connector fundraiser raised a total of $10,000! The Shadyside High School Band Program will receive $5,000. The remaining $5,000 stays in the I’m a Child of Appalachia Fund so FAO can continue to fund grant programs, like Cause Connector, in the future.
Wednesday, April 14, community members met with ms consultants, inc. to begin mapping out a strategic direction for Shadyside’s future. Representatives from the school district, chamber of commerce, Vision: Shadyside, and more were present to discuss the future plans and possibilities of economic reinvention in town.
The visioning session is an intense exercise using unique collaboration tools to bring community leaders together to find common goals and use those common goals to develop action items. Those action items are used to develop a comprehensive plan to advise and guide local government officials and civic leaders. The process will take 3 to 6 months to complete.
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A group of community members is working together to raise $10,000 for a new retractable American flag for the high school gym.
On Wednesday, April 14, Shadyside community members will meet with ms consultants’ Director of Funding, Economic Development, and Strategy, Dax Norton. Mr. Norton will lead the community members through an Economic Reinvention & Strategic Direction Road Map Visioning Session.
Based on his years of involvement in municipal management and economic development leadership in small, rural communities, Mr. Norton worked with colleagues at ms consultants to develop a Municipal Operations process. His team utilizes this process to guide small groups of community leaders through Strategic Direction Road Map visioning sessions. These sessions ultimately develop a comprehensive growth strategy focused on creating policy that will invite the private market to begin to make new investments in the community. The visioning session is an intense exercise using unique collaboration tools to bring community leaders together to find common goals and use those common goals to develop action items. Those action items are used to develop a comprehensive plan to advise and guide local government officials and civic leaders.
This process will involve no more than 35 local leaders and student leadership representation from the high school. The process will take 3 to 6 months to complete.
The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio’s Cause Connector initiative launched on February 10, 2021. This initiative will connect donors with nonprofit projects making a difference for the causes and communities they care about in Appalachian Ohio.
Cause Connector will match your donation, dollar-for-dollar, to create an even greater impact for the projects important to you.
The Shadyside High School Band Program Wishlist was selected for funding through the Cause Connector initiative. The Shadyside High School music and marching band program have always been a point of pride in the community. In the past, it was common to have nearly 100 Shadyside Marching Band members marching at halftime each Friday night in the fall. The program hopes to bring back those historic numbers and infuse new life into the program.
