Outline of Follow Up Report to Communities

The follow-up report for each community is based on both survey results from community members and input from the Tour Team. We will provide our summary feedback to key community officials within one week of the tour date. After the summary report the Tour Team and the Community Host will review notes and the final report will be completed.

For the sake of consistency and in order to aggregate our findings for our final report for the Legislative Summit, we will be organizing our local and statewide reports under the following discussion headings.

Report Outline

1. The Grow Iowa Tour mission and outline of purpose.

2. A note on local participation highlighting the local organizations
that facilitated the day.

3. An introduction of the IBF Grow Iowa Tour Team for each Community.

4. A summary agenda report on the day’s activities and participants.

5. Summary of Findings. Based on Surevey results and Tour Team feedback.

  • Spotlight on Success - Areas that scored more than 90 percent agreement from community members that are also supported by the observations of the tour team. These are the obvious “wins” for the community and may serve as examples for other communities.
  • Strong Support - Areas that scored more than 75 percent agreement from community members and that the tour team feels are solid advantages for the community.
  • Things to "Keep an Eye On" - Areas that scored more than 50 percent agreement from community members and that the tour team recognizes as comparable to other communities, but not significant issues other than those perhaps for community officials to keep in mind for the future.
  • Opportunities for Growth - Areas that scored less than 50 percent agreement from community members that the Tour Team felt may indicate a potential communication or planning roadblock and that should be further discussed and monitored by community leaders.

6. Between the Lines - Areas of interest identified by the Tour Team as well as thoughts on hard to quantify issues such as differences of opinion between sub-groups of the community. For example, if the team saw a major difference of opinion between the responses of CEOs as compared to cultural leaders or young professionals or differences of opinion between age categories, these areas may need to be carefully examined by leaders and community members of each group.

7. Conclusion - The big picture take-away of the day.

8. Homework - Projects or ideas about which the IBF would like more information in order to share with other communities

9. Evaluation - The IBF will provide evaluation forms for community members to be collected after the Tour and will report any key issues back to the Community Host.

10. Additional Tour Resources - Online gallery of images, downloadable documents and a video review of the Tour Teams time in the community.

 

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