GrowSmart Maine finds common ground solutions for growing Maine’s economy and preserving our quality of place. In 2006, GrowSmart Maine brought The Brookings Institution here to develop Charting Maine’s Future, a report that created a vision for Maine and an Action Plan to achieve that vision. Now, in 2012, GrowSmart Maine is assessing the impact of Charting Maine’s Future and updating the Action Plan. We were hired to manage this assessment and update project, including conducting research and interviews with dozens of Maine’s influential leaders, facilitating meetings to develop new recommendations, drafting text for the new report, and coordinating graphic design and printing for the report. We partnered with Peter Weed and Teague Morris for this project.
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Democracy Reforms Being Debated in Washington
March 1st, 2021 by Craig Freshley
Our Congress is currently debating HR 1, For the People Act. Advocates say the bill is the most consequential piece of voting legislation since the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I’m all for it. In my opinion it will strengthen our democracy in critical ways. It will help us get along with each other better, …read more
Strategic Planning Basics
February 22nd, 2021 by Craig Freshley
Strategic planning means different things to different people. There are some very specific ways of doing it and some very specific formats. Yet to simplify things, I figure that if you have something in writing with these three qualities, you can call it a strategic plan. First, it’s a long term plan. A strategic plan …read more