Iowa West Foundation awards $3.5 million in funding to benefit southwest Iowans
July 28, 2022
What do you love about your community? Where do you spend your time? How could the place you call home be better?
These questions and more were asked during a series of community-wide idea sharing sessions open to the public in the spring of 2022. The “Imagine Hours” were designed to engage the residents of Pottawattamie County in collective thinking about the future of our community. The ideas will help inform the Iowa West Foundation’s next strategic visioning process. Here are the preliminary results.
Results
Must Haves
Economic Development Must-Haves
Education Must-Haves
Healthy Family Must-Haves
(Bubble Map Coming Soon)
Placemaking Must-Haves
Imagine Hour Work Groups
Following the Imagine Hours, we invited experts within each of our focus area, who have first-hand experience in their specialties, to dig into the data, help us understand current gaps vs. opportunities, what criteria to consider for evaluating success, and so much more. We are grateful to all those who were able to participate in these valuable sessions.
Economic Development
Education
Healthy Families
Placemaking
What's Next?
What’s Next?
- Consider Focus Groups’ recommendations
- Iowa West Strategic Visioning Retreat – Fall 2022
- Align IWF projects with community interests
- Share our priorities and strategy with the community.
- Have more Imagine Hour sessions!
