Algiers Village Living Communities Challenge Vision Plan

MOVING FORWARD
Collaborative Community Development
This Vision Plan is a collaborative planning initiative created for and by the four Guilford nonprofit organizations.
The Friends of Algiers Village, Inc. (FOAVI), Guilford Preservation, Inc. (GPI), Community Collaborative for Guilford (CC4G)
and Guilford Community Church (GCC) decided to explore future Living Communities Challenge certification because it
embodies shared principles around environmental health, social equity, and sound community planning. The Vision Plan
incorporates feedback from the summer 2017 community gathering.
This Vision Plan should be used as a remedy to the silos that commonly exist in community development projects
or efforts. It is the documented dialogue between different groups in Guilford, and memorializes the commitment
to continued collaboration in Algiers. Whether this Plan move towards implementation or not, the process has been
important to the four participating nonprofits in continuing the conversation about the needs and solutions for their
shared Village.
The four nonprofits may decide to pursue implementation of the LCC Vision Plan as it pertains to their organizations and
their assets or not. Either way, this Plan is offered as a framework for understanding the site realities and social needs
“
of Algiers Village, and how they may work collaboratively
to address them. Even if they are high-functioning
organizations, one group alone cannot do everything
and address all the needs of a community. Rather, one
organization would need to understand the role that their
team would play as part of a greater whole. If they establish
their offered skill-sets and continue to operate as a united
front, the four nonprofits have the potential to respond to
most, if not all, of the community development needs of the
Village.
Pathways Forward
This Vision Plan should be used as a
remedy to the silos that commonly exist
in community development projects or efforts.
It is the documented dialogue between different
groups, and
memorializes the commitment to
continued collaboration in Algiers.
Even if the four nonprofits do decide to pursue adoption or implementation of the Living Communities Challenge, these
ideas or concepts are only one pathway through which these goals could be realized or achieved. Below is a simple
flowchart demonstrating how the groups may decide to use this document.
Use as
Guidance /
Inspiration
”
LCC Vision
Plan Design
Concepts
Pursue
Adoption/
Implementation
LCC
Registration
LCC
Certification
Abandon
Project