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Implementation strategy
Form a Rural Heritage Preservation Organization, which may take the form of a corporation, foundation or other appropriate form that will most effectively achieve our goals.
Why should we commit to this strategy?
- · To create a legal entity that has the single purpose of planning and promoting our rural heritage.
- · Because no other organization has been chartered for this specific purpose.
What action steps do we need to take to implement the strategy?
- · Develop a directory of people, organizations and available public and private resources whose support for the strategy will be key to the formation of the Rural Heritage Preservation Organization.
- · Form the Rural Heritage Preservation Organization.
- · Select a core group of organizers, or incorporators, to write the organization’s charter.
- · Enlist an influential, charismatic or otherwise well-respected person to act as spokesperson/leader of the organization.
- · Identify funding sources or other sources of support, such as professional expertise already available from related organizations, such as TVA and the University of Tennessee.
Who can lead the implementation effort?
Form a Task Force.
What will it cost to implement the action steps and the strategy?
The initial cost will be volunteer hours and administrative financial support.
What should Nine Counties. One Vision. do next?
- · Convene a meeting of people and organizations that support the strategy.
- · Organize a meeting of the goal teams that have overlapping strategies for the purpose of exchanging information and planning for mutual support of the others’ strategies.
- · Organize a meeting of the nine counties representatives’ who bought into the Nine Counties. One Vision. process to inform them of the action plans that will involve cooperation of local planning authorities.