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Virginia Tech-led Partnership for Progress outlines yearlong community planning effort
Summary
Virginia Tech and local partners described "Partnership for Progress," a yearlong, collaborative effort to gather community input and produce an actionable framework on quality-of-life priorities; survey open through mid-February.
Emily Gibson, director of local government and community relations at Virginia Tech, told the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 27 that Partnership for Progress is a yearlong, proactive collaboration among local governments, nonprofits, business and higher education to develop an actionable community roadmap.
Gibson said the initiative is “a shared effort” that builds on existing work and aims to produce a framework that is not staff- or person-specific but portable so partners can continue implementation after the project ends this summer. She said a consultant team, Linked Strategic Partners, is facilitating the process and that the effort has emphasized “operating from…
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