This section describes the long-term community goal, where theyare found and how to use them in designing a project. An example is provided.
Long-term community goals are a vision of an ideal community andthe foundation for all projects. They are established by community members anddescribe conditions in specific focus areas or dimensions. This vision growsand changes over time as goals are achieved and new priorities are identified,as well as when community members participating in the process change. Long-term goals of residential or geographic communities often are found inCommunity Comprehensive Plans. They also are components of Community StrategicPlans.
Subsets of a larger community (youth, elders, single parents forexample) may have long-term goals that they have created for their subsetcommunity. Communities that are the staff of an organization can createlong-term goals for the organization and strategies for pursuing achievement ofthose goals. The community that is involved in creating and pursuing a set oflong-term goals needs to be as well defined as the goals themselves.
