Partnership Annual Report 2009

From the "past" files - a well-illustrated Partnership Report for 2009 done in 2010 for Region 6.

CPR for Writers: Draw pictures instead!

Clustering is a nontraditional organization methods that allow participants to bypass the Fatal Perfect Prose Snag and get their ideas down on paper.
 

Clustering is more like drawing than it is like conventional writing or outlining. Participants start with a topic phrase or idea, and quickly jot down all the elements that come to mind, scattering them all over the page. 

When all the details (of whatever importance) are captured, a nice second step is to number the chunks in a tentative order of importance. (This tentative quality is important...it keeps options open.)

I like to use numbers for the key items, and letters for the subitems. This also allows the more linear among us to turn the spiderweb into a formal outline, which is a more comfortable way for some people to proceed.

Poem in A Blackbird Sings Anthology (coming in October)

                                 This empty cup: You sipped the bad coffee from it,
then washed it for me.                   kiw

          

  

Completed: Systems Approach Editing Project

Highlighting the organization of a 22-page "systems approach to civil rights" report for a Forest Service Enterprise Team, and drafting a one-page executive summary at no  extra charge.

State Water Strategy Project

Completed two rounds of editing on the excellent State Water Strategy document.

Executive Summary

Support your local library!

This project was a letter of support for Wallowa County's library, which in concert with nearly 70 other libraries provides interlibrary book borrowing, downloadable materials, online tutoring, and access to many newspapers. 

The letter combines information about the value of these resources with awareness of local concerns facing the council. 

The letter of support points out how library resources support local small business development and tourism, jobs, keeping young people in the county - all priority concerns for the council.

It demonstrates how one person used them to enhance a start-up business and save money in ways that allowed the "saved" funds to be spent locally or charitable activities such as purchasing food pantry bags from the local grocers for our "Community Connections" service, which also provides senior services.

The Rules: news from a small town 7, March 2012

Oh mighty huntress: The rules for Safeway