Creative Public Engagement Methods

Empowering communities to shape their futures

while upholding their unique character.

NADO Conference Session Creative Engagement Methods

Copyright 2016 Orton Family Foundation

Kat McQuade Director of Marketing & Communications Orton Family Foundation Mike Bestor Retired City Manager City of Golden, Colorado Pat Hart City Councilor City of Gardiner, Maine Caitlyn Davison Associate of Programs and Communications Orton Family Foundation

Presenters NADO Conference Session

Creative Engagement Methods


Share with your neighbor a time when you had a positive experience engaging in your community as a citizen. 5 min



Rediscover what’s special about where you live NADO Conference Session



People feel united, not divided NADO Conference Session



Towns have clear direction NADO Conference Session



Towns completed Foundations

Currently in process

Active interest in Community Heart & Soul

Applied Community Heart & Soul



Increased civic participation

Greater sense of place

Increased trust and relationships built across historic divides

New leaders and alliances

Remarkable results with Community Heart & Soul NADO Conference Session



Engagement is the meaningful involvement of individual citizens in policy or program development, from agenda-setting and planning to decision-making, implementation and review. It requires two-way communication that is interactive and iterative with an aim to share decision-making power and responsibility for those decisions. Source: Canadian Institutes of Health Research



Thick or Thin NADO Conference Session



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Storysharing NADO Conference Session



Data NADO Conference Session



ENGAGEMENT GOAL

FRAMING QUESTIONS

ENGAGEMENT METHODS

OUTPUTS

Understand existing conditions and perceptions

How are we doing? What is happening in our community?

Summary of issues, trends, and conditions.

Develop community recommendations

What is our vision? What should we be doing that we are not doing? What are we doing that is working?

Draft recommendations.

Evaluate recommendations

Given limited resources, what are the most important recommendations that can be done in the short-midterm?

Prioritized list of strategies and an Action Plan.

Engagement Strategy NADO Conference Session



Make connections through interviews NADO Conference Session



Keep it simple NADO Conference Session



Make engagement activities fun! NADO Conference Session



Know your audience NADO Conference Session



Use their language NADO Conference Session



Use technology NADO Conference Session



Create an idea wall NADO Conference Session



Draw on nostalgia NADO Conference Session



Host block parties NADO Conference Session



Involve creative people NADO Conference Session



Offer multiple channels for engagement NADO Conference Session



Brainstorm one way to get input on your town’s future.

Come up with a creative way to share your idea. 15 min



Thank you for joining us as we come together to build

successful futures for small cities and towns across America.



Creative Public Engagement Methods

Government & Nonprofit

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