While around 20 area residents are finalizing three projects outlined in December 2008 as one way to reduce poverty in the Deer Park area, the most immediate deadline in Mid July has created an urgent need to request the assistance of the Deer Park Community. We need to receive and review 400-500 surveys from Deer Park residents and surrounding areas. We have been distributing the surveys and receive minimal returns. So we are getting out the big guns! We’ve gotten 41 posters from the Chattaroy Elementary students in a Poster Contest and with an Essay contest we received 58 surveys from Deer Park High School students. Several individuals have been getting surveys filled out in their stores, churches, exercise class and other meeting places that the Horizons committee are involved in within Deer Park. So now we hope to receive the remaining necessary surveys by Friday, July 3rd. The Deer Park Tribune will deliver the surveys on June 24th and 3 winners will receive prizes from a random drawing from surveys received by Friday, July 3rd. You may mail or drop off your survey to Melo’s Flowers or the Chamber of Commerce. Details are on the surveys. The survey results will then give committee members the next direction for the Horizon’s project – Visioning. To date, the Deer Park’s Northwest Foundation Horizons project progress includes finalizing three current project and 25 residents have competed the Leadership Plenty 12 week training. To see the progress, go to the blog: http://deerpark-wa.blogspot.com.
The three current projects that were determined during the December 2009 action forum include:
Youth projects, Kelly Archer 276-1612
Koisk, Christine Clark 276-2006
Resource Brochures, Debbie Cogan 276-9462
The projects are complex and committee driven with many changes throughout the past months. In addition to working on the three projects, 20 area residents participated in the Horizons Leadership Plenty seminars. We met every Monday at the Deer Park city hall and Senior Center meeting rooms for 12 weeks to complete the Horizons curriculum. The main goal of the Northwest Foundation’s Horizons Deer Park group is to create a forum of discussions within the community to find realistic solutions to eliminate poverty. The discussion of “poverty” also follows.
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Where do we obtain the surveys so that we can help?
Have you considered using an online survey such as zoomerang that can compile data automatically?
The Deer Park Tribune Extra will have them as an insert and you can pick them up at Flowers By Melos, Deer Park Chamber, Deer Park Library and at various Deer Park Events, as well as Horizons group members are passing them out and collecting them.
We did consider an online survey but chose to do it this way.
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