Do to economical hardship the Roundup community consolidated the school, city and county libraries into the community library. Many of the Library board members, staff and friends of the library have participated in the Horizon program. These people have had roles in the Horizon program as participants, advisory board, and facilitators. This has been a strong partnership that has benefited the Community and Library.
Lee Rhodes, administer of the local hospital, joined the Horizon program. As a small community hospital that has economical hardship they where looking for tools to help their facility. A healthy hospital is a vital part of a Healthy Community.
The Community Library has been struggling for years to save enough funds to put in an electric door for the handicap patrons. Even though the Library is one level, the manuel door has been a major problem for wheel chair access. After one patron got a wheelchair stuck in the door frame and had to be manually pulled out by the Librian, the Library Board decided to put their used book sale money towards buying and wiring a new door. They found this to be a very slow and frustrating process. The Board then approached the three government entities (County, City, School) that fund the Library to see if they could help. Due to fiscal constraints, none of the entities had funds for the project. The Board then decided to look into grants to boost their meager savings. Two members of the Library Board attended the Mike Vogel grant workshop through the Horizons Program. They then pursued some of the resources given to them through Mike and another Grant attendee that had knowledge for handicap access. The Friends of the Library offered to help with the project as well. All this networking brought about a successful grant application to fund the new Library door, which will be installed this summer.
The Roundup Memorial Hospital and Medical Center has developed a grant committee to assist with ongoing needs of the facility. Two employees from the hospital attended a grant writing workshop that was held in Roundup. This workshop inspired the formation of the grant writing committee. The committee consists of staff, administration, and hospital board members.
The group has already submitted a proposal for a new autoclave. The existing autoclave is 60 years old. The committee is currently working on several other proposals as well.
Sarah Earwood, the chair of the committee, stated “we know that we can not run a hospital on grant funds alone, but anything we can do to improve the facility and the quality of service provided to the patients will have a huge impact to the community.”
A grant writing workshop was identified as a need through the Horizons program. MSU Extension and the Horizon program brought Mike Vogel to teach the all day class.
The Web page continues to grow and has now added the option for the Local Government Entities to post their minutes. The County Commissioners were the first Board to use the site. They have stepped to the plate to promote Community Communication for the needs and development of the County and to promote local citizen understanding of how County Government works.
In addition to using the web page listings for Community Communication, the group also started a monthly Share Meeting at which local groups can do a brief presentation of their upcoming activities and or needs. At the April Share Meeting the school presented a promotional on their school levy for building repairs and new technology, the Mason announced the free shoe distribution for needy children, the Museum announced their pancake breakfast to earn maintenance money, the Library talked about getting support for a handicap access. These meetings have proven vialble to motivate the communty to take part in these activities to donate help or funds or to just help spread the word to communicate to those who could benefit.
REPORT INFORMATION FOR VISIONING PHASE Name of Community: ________Roundup_______________________________________
# of Participants in Community Visioning Total population: __1800________ # of people that participated in the visioning process: _400_________ (threshold= at least 15% of total population)
Explain briefly how this information was collected or calculated: Collected information from the public on the need of the community.
Strategic Action:Please list 5 Strategic Actions items the community will be addressing as a result of the Horizons Vision. These actions should also be reflected as individual blog entries under “Action” in the areas of Poverty, Leadership or Community (
Boxes 3,7 & 11).
1. Community Foundation
2. Youth Activities
3. 100 yr. of Roundup recognition
4. Roundup Memorial Hospital survival
5. Market Roundup
Structural Change:Please describe the structural or organizational changes that have or will be manifest in your community as a result of Horizons. In what ways is your community planning to sustain the community vision and implement thriving community strategies over time? Please list five entries that you think are the most powerful examples and make sure these examples are listed on the community blog under “Sustaining Action/Creating Structural Change” under Poverty, Leadership or Community (
Boxes 4, 8 & 12).
1. A continued dialog with the stack holders of the community
2. Learn about grant writing and maintaining grants for community growth.
3. An increased knowledge of boards and comities of the community. This will better enable these members to help are community to grow.
4. Work on the negative perceptions that surround the community.
5. Work on ways to unify the new and old members of the community. New= moved in Old = home town
Poverty Reduction Plan with targets:Please attach a copy of the community vision and action plan which resulted from the visioning process. Comments?
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The attached Visioning Report and Community Action and Coaching Narrative and Budget are both due in electronic form by December 31. Early submissions are encouraged! So much so, that we will award a $250 spending spree for books and resources on Amazon.com to the first eight communities to submit their Community Action & Coaching Narrative and Budget, Visioning Report and update their blog consistent with their reports. As a result of my recent conference call and subsequent correspondence with the Northwest Area Foundation, I believe I have developed a form for communities to complete that will meet the Foundation’s reporting expectations. To assist community coordinators and steering committees as they fill out the report, I have attached the Expanded Category Grid for blogging. The grid uses a series of questions that will be useful as communities reflect on the Horizons process and their accomplishments. Please fill out the attached form and ensure the community blog reflects your community’s progress on outcomes.