SCI COMMITMENT TO PARTNER COMMUNITIES

SCI engages people and their communities, whether in urban neighborhoods or rural small towns. Our team has developed various engagement methods, including gaming and scenario building. Through workshops and stakeholder meetings, communities provide critical input, integrated with our inventory and analysis of place and data to provide a profile document.

Visioning is integral to our engagement process to help community members understand options by visualizing the ideas and concepts they generate. These drawings become critical tools for resource development and marketing. Building the funding platform and partnerships is easier with the images, diagrams, and graphic support for presentations. 

Strategic Planning is a critical next step for every project and the comprehensive plan. The strategic plan has a timeline and stakeholder responsibilities to create a transparent game plan. It has to be a living document that can maintain enthusiasm, keep everyone engaged, and inform everyone of the progress.

SCI is committed to helping implement the projects with our partners. Our efforts continue beyond the design and planning; we will be the developer or part of the development team to facilitate the resources and expertise in our network to achieve implementation. We are as committed to seeing the vision through to the brick is laid. We utilize local skills and services while finding global partners for financing.

Because we approach every project from a "full spectrum economic." model, we value community wealth, including experiential, environmental, social, spiritual, living, cultural, intellectual,  and financial. Collectively, this approach brings prosperity to the community, not Wall Street.

We celebrate each community's cultural and social aspects and what makes them unique. This place-based community and economic development strategy reinforces the local ownership and investment in each other and the pride to thrive! Food is one of the best expressions of place; we all have our favorite destination led by our taste buds and relationship to the place.