IWF Launches ASPIRE Workforce Program with Pottawattamie County School Districts, Education Partners
September 7, 2023
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
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
Imagine Hour: What's Next?
The input from the Imagine Hour coupled with the focus groups’ recommendations served as a guide to Iowa West Foundation Board’s Strategic Visioning Retreat last fall. Beginning in 2023, the updated vision and strategy moving forward are being rolled out to the community with opportunity for further feedback. Click the image below to see the full presentation.
