Our Mission:

Greenville Forward seeks to enhance 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 its vision for 2025. By having a group like Greenville Forward, whose sole purpose is to facilitate, coordinate, and communicate the ideas from Vision 2025, the aggressive goals for Vision 2025 will be kept vibrant, alive, and reachable. While many of the ideas of the Vision would "just happen" even if Greenville Forward didn't exist, an organization focused on the Vision will help programs happen more quickly, logically, cheaper and with fewer duplications of efforts and energies.

To make the Vision a reality, Greenville Forward focuses on the following program of work:

Develop and share community "report cards" of progress for Vision 2025 goals.

	Develop key Vision success metrics and measure annual goal attainment in an understandable and meaningful format .
	Create and distribute an annual report 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.
	Conduct an annual quantitative survey (or surveys) of community perceptions of performance toward goal attainment.
	Develop and host programs to acknowledge, recognize, and encourage organizations and individuals who are making a difference in the Greenville community.

Be the primary community contact and advocate for Vision 2025.

	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. Become an often scheduled speaker of community groups.
	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.
	Manage relationships with volunteer leaders committed to leading specific efforts through Leadership Greenville Alumni and other organizations.

Identify and develop young, emerging talent in Greenville and help them become more engaged and connected in Greenville's future.

	Provide programs to allow Upstate leaders to interact and initiate vision dialogue; including hosting speakers and educational programs.
	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.
	Provide programs to allow Upstate leaders to interact and initiate vision dialogue; including hosting speakers and educational programs.
	Connect potential leaders by forming organizations like the Creative 50, host a Greenville Manifesto Conference, and create a Youth Renaissance Weekend.
	Coordinate with leaders and organizations from the ten county region and the foothills to develop regional initiatives and encourage productive partnerships.

Help non-profit and community-driven organizations meet strategic goals which support the Vision by providing consulting, guidance, and support.

	Establish a volunteer network to consult with and support local non-profit organizations.
	Train and deploy volunteers to implement Vision 2025 goals.
	Consult with regional non-profits in board development, visioning, and fundraising.
	Develop educational, social, and networking forums to encourage cooperation between non-profit and community agencies.
	House the strategic plans of selected community organizations in Greenville to avoid duplication of efforts in the community.
	Be an active participant in the activities of non-profit organizations throughout the region.

As a community steward, support individual projects that help reach Vision 2025 initiatives.

	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.
	Participate in community-based initiatives as needed throughout the region.