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About Greenville Forward Our Mission
Greenville Forward enhances the quality of life for greater Greenville by engaging all citizens in continually updating, promoting, and facilitating a community vision for 2025 and beyond.
Greenville Forward was created in January 2006 to help Greenville achieve Vision 2025, the bold, comprehensive, and aggressive plan to create a vibrant Greenville in the next generation. By having a group like Greenville Forward, whose sole purpose is to facilitate, coordinate, and communicate the ideas from Vision 2025, the plan will be kept vibrant, alive, and attainable.
To make the Vision a reality, Greenville Forward focuses on the following program of work:
Identify and Research the Issues.
Build a Better Understanding of Greenville's Greatest Needs.
- Build awareness of and creatively educate the public about Vision 2025 and community needs.
- Develop and deliver presentations to the community, funding and advocacy partners, and other interested organizations as the voice of Vision 2025.
- Manage relationships with volunteer leaders committed to leading specific efforts through Leadership Greenville alumni and other organizations.
- Conduct annual quantitative surveys of community perceptions of performance toward goal attainment.
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Create Dialogue.
Connect Greenville through Relationship Building and Conversation.
- Develop and host programs to acknowledge, recognize, and encourage organizations and individuals who are making a difference in the Greenville community.
- Facilitate collaborations and alliances to be a catalyst for community project implementation.
- Be the primary press contact and community relations voice to educate and promote the public about current Vision 2025 efforts.
- Provide a significant, useful, and "cool" Greenville Vision 2025 web presence.
- Provide programs to allow Upstate leaders to interact and initiate vision dialogue; including hosting speakers and educational programs.
- Establish a volunteer network to consult with and support local non-profit organizations.
- Develop educational, social, and networking forums to encourage cooperation between non-profit and community agencies.
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Measure Progress.
Attain the Goals of Vision 2025.
- Develop key Vision success metrics and measure annual goal attainment in an understandable and meaningful format.
- Create and distribute periodical reports of Vision 2025 progress.
- Develop detailed report cards of performance for selected Vision areas. Release, on a staggered basis, reports of progress and identify the gaps in community performance.
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Facilitate Change in Community Projects.
Facilitate the Completion of Greenville's Next Great Projects.
- Identify and create key community projects that are the focus of vision efforts.
- Facilitate collaborations and alliances to be a catalyst for community project implementation.
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Inspire Leadership.
Create Greenville's Next Generation of Leaders
- Provide programs to allow Upstate leaders to interact and initiate vision dialogue; including hosting speakers, educational programs, and simulations.
- Develop emerging talent through educational programs and networking forums as an extension of programs like Leadership Greenville, Youth Leadership Greenville, PULSE, and the Greenville Forum.
- Coordinate with leaders and organizations from the ten county region, the foothills, and the state to develop regional initiatives and encourage productive partnerships.
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Board of Directors
Rita Barker, Chair
Wyche
Sally Sarratt, Past Chair
McMillan Pazdan Smith Group
Todd Usher
Secretary/Treasurer
Addison Homes
Curtis Brison
Michelin North America
Terence Brooks
Greenville County Sheriff's Office
Lori Center
Bon Secours St. Francis Health System
Rebecca Crown
Greenville Hospital System
Travelers Rest City Council
Sean Dogan
Long Branch Baptist Church
Phil Feisal
Village Hospital
Angela Halfacre
Furman University
Shi Center for Sustainability
Mary Douglas Hirsch
City of Greenville
Mellone Long
Greenville County Planning Council
Phyllis Martin
United Way of Greenville
Alfred Middleton
Greenville County Human Relations Commision
Chris Riley
GADC
Regions Bank
Ansel Sanders
A.J. Whittenberg School
Gaye Sprague
Greenville City Council
Sprague & Sprague Consulting
Staff
Russell Stall
Executive Director
Brock Koonce
Program Director
Kate Hofler
Marketing and Communications Director
Reece Lyerly
Gardening for Good Fellow
Shaye Sullivan
Research Intern
Ben Riddle
HeadStrong Intern
Click to see staff biographies |
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