Keri L. Silvyn

What Is Imagine Greater Tucson?

• Community-based collaborative effort

• Create a common vision

• Action plan to bring the vision to reality

Our Origins

Imagine Greater Tucson organizedInitiating Team of 125 diverse individualsEarly 2009

Process kicked offSept. 30th, 2010

The Purpose

To Make our Community a Vibrant and Healthy Place to Live, Work, Learn, and Play for Current and Future Generations of all Ages.

In these times, our region needs to focus our energy and resources.

Think ahead to proactively shape our region for future generations

““Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”

– John Wooden

Do you know where we are

headed?

OUR REGION

What Is Our Process?

“Talk Phase” Goals

• Learn what people value about the Tucson region

• Identify the shared values

Qualitative Insights into Core Values:

Community Conversations and Web Surveys

1. What do you like about living in the Tucson region? Why?

2. What would you change or improve? Why?

Projecting Core Values for the Community

Random Sample/Statistically Valid Survey

• Confirming and supplementing qualitative findings

• Providing data to “inform” the modeling process

“Talk Phase”

Input to dateDecember 1, 2010

• 3,000 community members connected

• 600 surveys complete

• 200 community conversation attendees

• Hundreds have contributed

• Almost 10,000 values collected to date

“Think Phase”(We are still talking though)

• Compare our “probable future” to our identified values

• Create alternative future scenarios

• Engage the public; assess scenarios

“Action” Phase Goal

• Develop actions plans • Integrate strategies into plan updates and

public policy

• Continually follow up with governing

policy makers

Imagine Greater Tucson Process 2010 – 2012)

Surveys

Panels

Community Conversations

Collecting Values

Probable Future (Status Quo)

Alternate Future AAlternate Future BAlternate Future CAlternate Future D

Identify Preferred Future

Develop Actions and Strategies

Policy, Leadership, GovernmentEnvironment/Growth StrategiesFinancial/Economic Development

How Is This Funded?

• Cash and in-kind

• All sectors of the community

• Broad and diverse support

• Grants

To date:$550,000

Goal:$1,200,000

How Can You Get Involved?

Participate in Community Conversations

Take the Survey

DONATE!

Learn More

Spread the Word

www.ImagineGreaterTucson.org

Keri L. Silvyn

Thank you!Questions?

www.ImagineGreaterTucson.org

Conversations@ImagineGreaterTucson.org

(520) 209-2IGT

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