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Participant Guide: Serve – Opportunities And Challenges

The Envision Participant Guide provides an in-depth exploration of the opportunities and challenges which may shape the future of Prince George’s County. A the heart of the Participant guide and the Envision initiative in general are six Envision areas – live, work, learn, enjoy, serve, and sustain, which provide a framework to examine the parts of life in the county we hope to impact. Today we examine the Serve Envision area:

Opportunities

• More collaboration between the nonprofit community and government, schools, and businesses.
• Involve more people to address community needs through meaningful citizen engagement in decision making and action.
• Grow new leaders, including youth and young adults.
• Leverage diversity through new and existing programs for blending different racial, ethnic, and income groups to achieve greater levels of cooperation and integration.
• Provide a countywide framework with a clear vision and strategy for improving quality of life in the county to guide decision making and action.
• Capitalize on the existence of strong faith based organizations as resources.

Challenges

• Controversial issues such as TRIM.
• Perceptions of poor management, red tape, and corruption in government.
• Lack of leadership continuity as a result of term limits.
• Low spending per capita in the nonprofit sector.
• Local philanthropic sector is underdeveloped and needs to be strengthened.
• Negativity, resistance to change, and old ways of thinking prevent trying new things.

Insufficient coordination between municipalities, the county, nonprofits, and the private sector

For much more background on our county, please download and review the Envision Participant Guide (note: This is a large 2MB PDF file), and look for many more Participant Guide excerpts here at the Envision blog.

Vote today in the Envision Prince George’s Online Forum!

This week, the Online Forum explores What We Most Love About Prince George’s County.  Discuss your favorite places and why they are important to the future of the county.   You can also vote and add your own ideas.

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