As many of you know, DurhamCares, got it’s start this year. We’ve been remarkably heartened at the response that we’ve gotten from the community and are doubly committed to continuing our work as we all seek to serve and transform Durham. Recently we’ve gotten together to talk about further defining and refining our mission, vision, values and strategic objectives. It’s of course very important that we, who insist on this from the organizations that we promote on this website, practice what we preach. I should note before I go much further that we’re still a relatively small group…....There’s Henry and David (co-founders of DurhamCares and of Bandwidth.com), Heather Jones (Senior Program Manager for Workplace Outreach) and Mike Schneider who fills many roles but principally focuses on content along with our web developer Pete, and on college outreach.

As we’ve gotten together to talk about long term planning, resource allocation and the mission/vision/strategy mentioned above, we thought that it might be helpful to document this process, and in fact much of what happens at DurhamCares in a blog. The hope here is that others from the community will weigh in on what we’re discussing in our internal meetings and what we are seeing and hearing in our external meetings. We haven’t yet really turned on the promotion engine so our expectations on how many folks will contribute is in check, but we’re hopeful that as folks spend time on the site that they’ll let us know what they are thinking, seeing, hearing and doing in Durham. What’s working and what’s not, etc. etc. So without further adieu…..welcome to the new, much more frequent, and hopefully very interactive blog!!! Please let us know what you think!

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