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Creating a Single Community Plan <br />This guide is a step -by -step path to build a plan based on your <br />community values. It will help you control community change <br />in a way that reflects your values, vision, assets, and needs. It is <br />a tool you can use to ensure that your community projects are <br />thought through and make sense. It will also help you identify <br />the programs you need to keep your community a healthy and <br />safe place to live. Remember, if you already have an up- to -date <br />plan that reflects your community's values, you don't have to start <br />over. <br />This guide and form are intended to be a tool that will result in <br />one plan that is understood and respected by your community <br />as well as by funding resources. It means that you will not have <br />to do a new community plan for each funding resource. The <br />success of your plan will depend on you. Once you have done <br />your plan, its power lies in using it. Remind resource people <br />and agencies that you have a plan and that you expect them to <br />use it. If you empower its use, it will be respected. <br />JoAnne Albert, Tununak <br />Coordinating with Federal Agencies and Funding Resources <br />The Strategic Plan Guide and Form allow your community to standardize how it expresses its <br />needs. Different federal agencies and funding resources can learn to recognize the community <br />strategic plan format and not require another separate planning effort. The Denali Commission is <br />encouraging funding agencies to use this plan guide and form. <br />A common plan form will help your community and funding resources to coordinate projects. It <br />makes sense to have all agencies working from the same plan that the community has prepared. <br />It will allow funding resources to work together to ensure that each new project is complete, <br />functional, appropriate, sustainable, and based on what the community wants. <br />Why Plan? <br />Plans help you achieve a goal as quickly as possible. Think about all the plans you have made in <br />your life. You make plans to get married, take trips, go fishing, and pay bills. When you plan to go <br />fishing, you wouldn't want to spend most of your time trying to decide where to fish. Your goal is to <br />fish and that is what you are planning to do. <br />A good community plan can help establish land use patterns, enable a community to build <br />consensus on a challenging issue, solve a complex problem, prioritize projects, and secure funding. <br />Examples of questions that can be answered by having a plan in your community are: Is a <br />new school more important than a new clinic? How can we create more jobs'? How can we <br />encourage our children to stay in our community? How can we stop substance abuse? A good <br />plan can help outsiders to understand the historical, cultural, and general lifestyles and values of <br />your community. <br />4 Community Strategic Plan Guide and Form - A Straightfoward Way to Get What You Need <br />