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Reasons to Engage Your Community

Posted on | January 27, 2009 | No Comments

  1. Build Connections – Strengthen, deepen and expand relationships and better connect people and resources.
  2. Advance Mission – Serve your organization’s core reason for being.
  3. Build Relevance – As you interact with others, their interests and aspirations, you become an increasing part of their lives and matter more to them.
  4. Increase Value – The greater your impact on others in your community, the more they value you and/or your organization’s contribution.
  5. Increase Awareness – As you build relevance and increase value,  increased personal and/or organizational awareness will follow. 
  6. Impact Behaviour – Research shows that engaging people in meaningful ways makes them over 75% more likely to become involved in their community.
  7. Strengthen Community – Bringing people together in dialogue has also been shown by research to increase the likelihood of community involvement.
  8. Improve Solvency – Community engagement is a high priority with many funding sources and may increase connections with current donors/contributors.
  9. Increase Diversity – Expand your reach, engage new audiences, and include diversity of race, background and influence by creating opportunities to engage new groups and emerging leaders.
  10. Change Community Culture - The most effective, proactive and valuable community engagement both creates and results from cross-functional cooperation and encourages further strategic thinking from all .

Community engagement gets results.

What success stories can you share from your community?

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