ORBIS FOR COMMUNITIES

~~UNLEASHING CIVIC CAPACITY~~

Successful communities are like successful people: they have a sense of direction in their life.

Successful communities foster leadership within their citizenry, plan for their future, and implement projects and address issues with regularity.

Communities, like people, have varying capacities for success.

Orbis Group developed The Four Stages of Community Development Capacity™ model to assist community leaders to understand the capacity of their community to advance itself.

Orbis Group offers two guidebooks to assist community leaders to assess and develop their:

*Community Development Capacity

*Business Development Capacity

Orbis Group analyzes the current situation, facilitates a process to identify a community's strategic plan, and then outlines action steps to reach the newly defined vision.

Orbis Group provides three additional services to communities:

*Strategic Planning: the fundamental three questions: where are we? where are we going? how are we going to get there?

*Resource Identifier: key programs and contacts on the path to success

*Grant Writing: applying 15 years of successful grant writing to your needs

Orbis Group understands that community development is a very competitive process, and that resources are thin compared to the many identified priorities of communities throughout the Pacific Northwest.

This is why the application of the five tools presented above is critical for success. Communities that desire to reach for a brighter future deserve to have all the tools needed to compete.