Ways to save your small town with Becky McCray and Deb Brown
You probably know that we don’t have any standard plans here at SaveYour.Town. We don't have a pre-written template that we try to force onto every town, but we do have one recommendation that works for almost every town. And that is to divide big …
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You have a big idea to make your town a better place and you’re getting tired of all the hard work to do such a big thing. Tired of beating your head against city council asking for approvals Killing yourself trying to raise enough money to …
Pamela Slim, author of Body of Work and developer of the Indispensable Community Tour shares these 35 ways to seed and support your community. 35 Ways to seed and support your community (created by the Sunnyvale Community Group) 1. …
Sometimes, when someone is telling me about their town, they'll say it. "We have nothing here! Nothing!" It bothers me. Surely you have something to work with? Des Walsh is a friend of mine from Australia who has strong rural ties. He told …
[Read more...] about When your small town has to start with nothing
It’s so easy to become entrenched in our day to day activities. We get up, go into our morning routine, go to work, come home and then our evening routine. How many times a week do you drive to work and wonder what you saw on the way there? Were …
There's an entire class of consultants out there who will come to your town and tell you what's wrong with it. They take their template that they apply to every town from 500 to 500,000, and they walk around your town to see where you don't …
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