Tourism Working Group: Strategic Planning Sessions, Meetings To Continue in January

Thanks to a grant awarded by The Ford Family Foundation, the Tourism working group participated in a two-day process in October which identified strategies and actions that will serve the tourist-based businesses in McCloud, as well as the community at large. Rural Development Initiatives (RDI) led the process. Meadow Barr and Robin Singler served as session trainees and therefore will be able to aid other Network working groups in a similar strategic planning process.

The final draft of the strategic action plan, based on the ideas that were generated in the sessions, is complete. This document will be refined and distributed to those who attended or showed interest in this work. We'd love to hear from anyone who is interested in being a part of seeing our goals through to fruition. These goals include networking events to encourage collaboration among all of McCloud's service groups, clubs and organizations, developing a fund to assist McCloud in marketing to tourists, and facilitating the collaboration of McCloud’s tourism-based businesses.