Building Community Consensus: Downtown Keene, NH

Supporting a Vital Downtown

Faculty Member: James Gruber Friends of Center City Keene Friends of Center City Keene had the overall objective to foster effective partnerships between community citizens, businesses, organizations and local government to work together to plan and build an economically, environmentally and culturally thriving center city. Antioch has assisted in the visioning, planning, organizing of forums, conducting citizen surveys, and analyzing/presenting of findings

Student Theory & Skills Applied:

  • Community Master Planning Process and Involvement of Citizens
  • Sustainable Community Visioning and Strategic Planning
  • Organizing Community Participatory Problem Solving Forums
  • Application of GIS mapping
  • Planning and Conducting Citizen Surveys, Analyzing Data, and Presenting Findings
  • Communication and Facilitation