What does HORIZONS actually mean?
HORIZONS is a community leadership program aimed at reducing poverty in small towns in an eight state region. The program is funded by the Northwest Area Foundation (www.nwaf.org). University of Idaho Extension delivers the program with the assistance of individual community coaches in 14 rural communities in northern Idaho.
HORIZONS builds strong community leadership, acknowledging that strong leadership is as important as good roads, great schools and clean water.
HORIZONS embraces the entire community: everyone is needed and everyone has something to contribute. For communities to thrive, everyone has to have an opportunity to prosper. The main components of HORIZONS are:
Community conversations and action planning focused on poverty reduction
Inclusive, broad based leadership development
Community visioning and action
HORIZONS explores the perceptions and the sourcs of poverty, recognizing that it isn’t always about lack of money. The program focuses on poverty, because poverty impacts everyone in a community.
H appy, Thriving community (the goal)
O rganize & mobilize existing assets (people, places & groups)
R eceive resources & support (grant funders)
I nitiate community conversations (study circles/ action forum)
Z ealous leadership (leadership plenty)
O wn our own destiny (reinvent the future)
N ame together where we are going (unified vision)
S pring into action (make significant changes to improve)
We are working hard to make all our goals come to fruition! Please join us whenever you can, we welcome your ideas, time and thoughts!
TTFN
Tala.