River City Company reps, including president & CEO, Emily Mack, have participated in the group. They will anchor our next dialogue, which will be on June 1st. The Chamber president & CEO has attended most of our sessions. My sense from both of these stakeholder organizations is that they are seeking input on general questions but have their agendas set for the next year or so. 

NPC reps have attended most sessions and have come to regular meetings. They are very focused on their efforts to “plant seeds.” City reps have showed up occasionally. I’m frankly not sure what the City’s interests are.  

An interesting general question is “how might we get articulation from these stakeholders and what needs to be articulated?” If we are focusing on connecting causes and closing gaps, particularly to increase incomes and prosperity, maybe that’s what we want to articulate: their role(s) in enabling people to do better and make more?

The other issue is how do we do this in a manner that makes inputs accessible/visible to group members? How do we get consistent, actionable insights? I think the former is the infrastructure and the latter is the practice(s).