Master Plan Visioning Assistance

UNH Cooperative Extension is offering assistance to communities in New Hampshire for getting the public involved in community decision-making.

Through the Master Plan Visioning Assistance program, UNH Cooperative Extension works with a limited number of communities to help them organize, facilitate community planning and public visioning forums.  Applicants are selected based on the community’s readiness to start working on public involvement activities and willingness of local decision-makers to participate. 

The fee structure is based on population and is as follows:

$1000: Master Plan visioning forum
$1500: Master Plan forum and a community survey or another participatory method
$2000: Two Master Plan forums and a community survey (or another participatory method)
$2500: Combination of 4 participatory methods (e.g. survey, forums, focus
groups, asset mapping, study circles, etc.)

Fees will cover technical assistance from UNH Cooperative Extension to:

• Help in forming a steering committee to manage the details of the public participation process.
• Guidance in developing the stakeholder participation process and methods.
• Facilitation by trained facilitators at public meetings (if forum option is selected).
• Training to community facilitators to lead small discussion groups at public meeting(s).
• Hard copy and/or web-survey questionnaire (if survey option is selected).
• Basic analysis of surveys and other information collected.
• Summary report of community forum(s) and/or survey results.
• Provision of follow-up support for up to 1 year.
  

Master Plan Visioning Assistance Program full description and Application Form

Or apply on-line

To learn about what communities can achieve with the assistance of UNH Cooperative Extension, please visit our webpage at:  http://extension.unh.edu/CommDev/CACPAP.htm

If you have questions about the Master Plan Visioning programs, please feel free to contact: