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A community-wide understanding of
poverty and ways it can be solved; |
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More people in leadership role in
the community; |
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Community leaders who come from all
ages, backgrounds and incomes, |
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At least six people with better
skills to help lead community discussions and move toward community action
on poverty; |
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Three people who can present ongoing
leadership training in the community; |
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At least 20 people with enhanced
leadership abilities; |
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A vision and a plan - created and
carried out by at least 60 people; |
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Up to $10,000 to sustain community
strategies for poverty reduction and leadership; |
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Connections to many organizations
and hundreds of other Horizons communities that can help for the long haul;
and |
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Changes from within the community
that allow this work to continue long term. |
Community
Success
Is Horizons worth the effort? Nearly 200 small
rural and reservation communities - towns just like ours - say :yes!" Read
some of their entries at
http://communityblogs.us/
SOME TESTIMONIES FROM OTHER
COMMUNITIES
"A year and a half ago,
if you had asked me or others in town about poverty, we would
have said, 'There isn't much, it's not a big
issue.' Some people would have said it's just those people who are
too lazy to get a job. When you start looking at it
though, as in Study Circles, you
realize that bad things do happen to people, that you can't always
get a job that will support your family."
"What
mattered most with Horizons is
that someone believed that things could be better -
they had more faith in us than we had in
ourselves."
"We have new leaders
in the community because of what we are doing here.
People are volunteering for things that they had never even
been invited to before."
The delivery Organization for Rochester
is:
Wasington State University Extension,
http://horizons.wsu.edu/
Rochester Horizons
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