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Permalink Reply by Justin Thakar on April 9, 2012 at 3:08pm

We do, actually. Really needs to be on the About Us page like, now (of course). I dug it up from the old promotional pamphlets. I'd assume there was some logic to this mission that needs to be made explicit:

Mission: Fostering community participation in a self-organized network of neighborhood groups which focus on community-sized solutions to basic services.

Vision: A framework of self-represented neighborhoods working together to share resources, skills, and community-sized solutions for low-energy living.

Permalink Reply by Alexander Dale on April 9, 2012 at 3:28pm

Hmm. If we were up for tweaking it, I’d probably make the Vision a bit broader and the Mission a bit more specific. They’re a little too close right now. 

Also, we have old promotional pamphlets? Do we have them in a digital format?

Current suggestion:

Vision: A future where all communities in Pittsburgh have a strong local and low-energy economy and are resilient to external issues such as peak oil and climate change. 

Mission: Fostering community participation via neighborhood groups to share resources, skills, and community-sized approaches to economic, environmental, and social sustainability.

Permalink Reply by Justin Thakar on April 9, 2012 at 4:09pm

Suggested Vision I'm liking. Mission: what does "fostering" mean in this circumstance? And do you suggest that neighborhoods groups are the vehicle for most/all activity? Trainings were always meant to be a major arm of the hub, I think, and I'm wondering if there's a way to work that in there.

Promo materials: I've got paper versions, but I'm not sure about digital... Will try to dig stuff up. 

Permalink Reply by Alexander Dale on April 9, 2012 at 4:33pm

Hmm. Ok. Fostering generally gets used as ‘encouraging without doing all the work’. I think a lot of the on-the-ground changes will happen through neighborhood-level groups, while seeing T. PGH as an educator and connector. How’s this?

Mission: Helping self-initiated neighborhood groups work towards local resilience and sustainability by providing training, resources, and city-wide community and projects. 

Permalink Reply by Alexander Dale on May 12, 2012 at 10:17am

Pulling these two together (with minor tweaks to the vision) for initial approval (within this Steering Space group) before larger group distribution and approval:

Vision: A future where all communities in Pittsburgh have a strong local and low-energy economy and are resilient to peak oil, climate change, and larger economic trends. 

Mission: Helping self-initiated neighborhood groups work towards local resilience and sustainability by providing training, resources, and city-wide community and projects.