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The Community Convening: An Inaugural Event <br />Community outreach and engagement will occur at the front end as Green Minneapolis, and the <br />park, move from start up to scale, and will be on-going as operations and programming pick up <br />steam and become steady. <br />An initial outreach and engagement effort will go into hosting a "Community Convening on <br />Programming at The Commons" prior to full programming going into effect. <br />This inaugural convening will be presented in fuller detail in another section of this report, but the <br />goal of the convening is to enlist members of the community early on and with intention to: <br />• Envision programming possibilities <br />• Reinforce connections among stakeholders <br />• Build a network of Commons' advocates <br />• Direct staff toward potential programming providers and sponsors <br />• Endow essential ownership & confidence in The Commons <br />• Initiate the "Virtuous Cycle" of placemaking (see graphic below) <br />Not a "One Time" Deal <br />The focus on community outreach at The Commons will be deliberate and on going. Green <br />Minneapolis recognizes that a destination park will only thrive with continual and consistent <br />engagement by the stakeholders who support it. Staff at The Commons will be committed to <br />consistent outreach and engagement, including, but not limited to, the following means: <br />• Announcements on the website for The Commons <br />• Conversations with potential and existing sponsors <br />• Subsequent convenings for large or small stakeholder groups <br />• Following up with participants and providers after events via <br />o Email <br />o Phone calls <br />o Electronic surveys (SurveyMonkey, etc.) <br />o Comment cards offered and collected on site <br />o Interviews or focus groups <br />• Presence on social media <br />• Photographs, video, and storytelling <br />• Data collection and analysis <br />W.3 <br />