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社区的印象

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See your community’s potential through the eyes of a visitor

Find Out How to Make a Good First Impression

社区的印象 helps communities learn about their strengths and 弱点 as seen through the eyes of a first-time visitor. Knowing about these strengths and 弱点 helps those who want to be proactive about the growth of their home communities and who want to make them more vibrant places to live and work.

Groups of community volunteers will make an anonymous visit to another community in North Dakota that is similar yet unfamiliar to their own. These teams will visit this community to provide feedback. The “first impressions” will be reported to the exchange community to help determine the community’s strengths, 弱点, areas of opportunity and ideas for improvement.

The exchange community also gathers a group of volunteers who will make a return visit to the original community to provide the same service – an objective opinion of a community’s strengths, 劣势和机遇.

获得一个全新的视角

As a resident, you may not see your community objectively. Longtime residents often overlook the strengths and 弱点 of their surroundings. The 社区的印象 program can give you a fresh perspective on what kind of first impressions people get when they enter your community.

为什么是社区印象?

社区的印象 provides an unbiased assessment of a community from volunteers who then receive the same unbiased assessment from the exchange community’s volunteers.

The information that communities provide and receive will:

  • Help identify positive attributes and 弱点 in the community (Ex: community services, 住房, 业务, 行业, 客户服务, 公共基础设施, 卫生保健, 社会服务, 教育)
  • Provide a basis for a community vision or plan
  • Identify issues needed for downtown revitalization
  • Identify tourism strengths and 弱点
  • Provide a sense of how a potential entrepreneur or 业务 investor might view your community
  • Provide information about services and infrastructure available to local 业务es
  • Assess 客户服务 in the community

你会收到什么?

The visiting team provides a variety of perspectives in written reports to your community. In exchange, members of your community provide the same service to their community. The visits are unannounced to ensure the visiting team gets a realistic impression of your community. Team members record their observations and give constructive feedback in their reports. The information can be used to help you develop a strategic community action plan to:

  • 改善特定领域
  • improve, add or upgrade tourist attractions
  • improve the quality of local private and public services
  • increase investment in the local economy
  • 振兴你的市中心
  • draw new 业务/行业 to your region

每个社区的成本:500美元. This will cover NDSU specialists’ travel to communities, training, materials, etc.

To learn more about 社区的印象, contact 乔迪•布鲁斯 at 701-210-0445

NDSU扩展的 社区的印象 program is based on the University of Wisconsin-扩展 First Impressions program.