1) Our purpose is to grow and to adopt our communities for a stronger future.
2) We are passionate about implementing effective innovative ideas.
3) We use our gifts of to have a meaningful contribution in the form of community stewardship.
4). What impact do we want to have in the world? That Asheville and WNC has unique stewardship of collective models for positive growth and positive outlooks that could be shared elsewhere.

Just tweaking Marc's a little

1) Our purpose is to grow adaptive communities for a stronger future. (But I also like the idea of the purpose being the vision? But this sentence is also at the heart of what our purpose is I think)

2) We are passionate about implementing effective, innovative ideas and technologies. (I'm also toying with the idea of 'experimenting' rather than 'implementing' since experimentation and adaptation is a key value from the summit)

3) We use our gifts to have a meaningful contribution in the form of community stewardship. (I like that stewardship includes the care for one another and sustaining quality of life values - I think we had toyed with that word in conversations before.)

4). On this one I think I prefer Jim's?

Tracy, I think that you could include that idea of "experimenting" in point two by working in the word "flexible" or "adaptive", i.e.

We are passionate about the use of technology to implement effective, innovative, and adaptive ideas.

Something like that?

• Our purpose is to help people work together.
• We are passionate about sharing our successes.
• We use our gifts to make a meaningful contribution in the form of successful communities.
• We want to build successful communities by using digital technologies to open new ways to communicate, connect, and collaborate.

PS: Ugh... this was hard for me :-(

I especially like the fourth point.

me too!

I think our purpose is our mission statement - when we get it finished! I really like Jim's last bullet point.

In bringing this conversation to a close before next Tuesday's meeting, please comment on this as our "We Exist..." statement.

1. Our purpose is to help people work together for a future that works for all of us.
2. We are passionate about implementing effective innovative ideas and sharing our successes.
3. We use our gifts to make a meaningful contribution in the form of successful communities.
4. We want to build successful communities by using digital technologies to open new ways to communicate, connect, and collaborate.