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Reports & Plans

The following reports and plans are offered as a guide to achieving community transformation from ground level to policy frameworks and investing. The journey has been rich with lessons both inspiring and difficult. The essential element is leaders with courage, a heartfelt love of community, the willingness to face reality, and the strength to persevere.

  • Life Skills Initiative–2018
  • Mental Health Initiative–2009
  • Human Investment Initiative–2007
  • Regional Jobs Initiative–2003
  • Choosing Our Future–2005
  • Collaborative Regional Initiative–2001
  • Economic Future of the San Joaquin Valley–2000
  • Landscape of Choice–1998

Books

The following authors have inspired and guided us on our journey to understand, plan and take action. They have helped us become the change to lead, teach and do it, and encourage others to join us as we seek to advance the American experiment in self-governance. 

  • Who Do You Want to Be on the Way to What You Want
    by Donna Zazonc
  • Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
    by Joseph Jaworksi
  • Bugle Call: Stewardship is Serious Business
    by Deborah J. Nankivell
  • Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in America’s Communities
    by Douglas Henton, John Melville, Kimberly Walesh
  • Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities
    by Douglas Henton, John Melville, Kimberly Walesh
  • Reinventing Government: How The Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming The Public Sector
    by David Osborne, Ted Gaebler
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
    by Jim Collins
  • A Passion for Stewardship: The Legacy of a Generation
    by Richard Johanson
  • The Synergetic Follower: Changing Our World Without Being the Leader
    by Kurt Madden
  • Leadership Questions
    by Kurt Madden
  • The Source
    by Mark Peters
  • Expand the Circle
    by Matt Poepsel, PhD

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