Regional Collaboration
This small, rural region shares visitors, services, incredible natural resources, and a strong sense of community. Businesses, non-profits, and communities work together across town lines to develop efficient and effective solutions to commonly shared challenges. We value broad participation and seek to include all voices.
Building a culture of collaboration and inclusion, creating shared leadership and regional solutions
Our work is guided by these strategic principles:
- To have impact at an appropriate scale requires collaboration.
- Shared leadership encourages diverse participation.
- Cultivating a welcoming and inclusive community is foundational to effective collaboration.
Example Projects:
- Convening joint meetings of the local selectboards to find collaborative solutions to shared challenges – including broadband infrastructure and waste and resource management.
- Bringing people together across communities and sectors to implement all aspects of the Sustainable Tourism Plan.
Finding Our Way
Our work in 2021 - Immediate Strategic Actions:
Our work has identified immediate strategic actions, including:
- Taking a regional approach to implementing our sustainable tourism plan and pledge.
- Helping townships collaborate to find suitable shared solutions for infrastructure, waste management and resource management.
- Cultivating a welcoming and inclusive community.
Our Operating Principles
- The Mahoosuc Region, and our communities are not large or affluent enough to waste resources. Finding ways to collaborate and create efficiencies is good common sense.
- We believe that future collaboration will be required to make real headway on implementing sustainable tourism and regional messaging and branding.