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Before developing a Strategic Sustainability Plan for action it is critical to establish the vision, goals, and objectives, so that you can be sure you’re pursuing the right strategies. Otherwise, you risk being derailed by a community member’s opinion for a good strategy or by unspoken assumptions about the community’s condition that turn out to be inaccurate. In the last chapter I described how to assist the target community in articulating a vision and establishing goals for sustainable community development (SCD). As an SCD practitioner you are now ready to help the community build on their shared vision and goals with the development of objectives, the foundation for guiding strategic actions.
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Flint, R.W. (2013). Analyzing Community Problems and Defining Objectives. In: Practice of Sustainable Community Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5100-6_10
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