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C4C Awards $7,000 For Grassroots Community ...

Citizens4Community (C4C) recently selected ten organizations, businesses, and individuals as the recipients of its 2024 Momentum Grants. Now in its fifth year, the program offers funding for grassroots community building initiatives aligned with the core principles of the Sisters Country Vision.

C4C Awards $7,000 For Grassroots Community Building
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Announcing C4C’s 2023 Momentum Grant Recipients

Each year, C4C dedicates a small pool of funding to help catalyze community-led actions aligned with the Sisters Country Vision. After thoughtful deliberation, we are proud to announce our 2023 Momentum Grant recipients.

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C4C Receives Program Funds
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Update: Thank you For Helping Us Reach Our 2021 ...

Are You Ready to Get Rhythmic?

Rhythm & Song In the Park is fast approaching. And we're wanting to offer a shout out to our great partners in this event, including Earthtones NW, SPRD, the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District, Melvin's by Newport Avenue Market, Ford Family Foundation, and community musicians including Maggie Johnson, on flute; Cameron and Tree, on gongs and singing bowls; Kirk Olsen on African guitar; Shannon Mokuahi Rackowski, with traditional Hawaiian instruments and dance; Katie Cavanaugh on Native American flute; and Annemarie Crosier, with African drum, song and dance.

Quilt and Quilt Web Page Debut

The 2018 SISTERS COUNTRY QUILT made its debut today (July 14) at the SISTERS OUTDOOR QUILT SHOW. If you weren't able to see the quilt in person, you can visit it at the DESCHUTES COUNTY FAIR or one of C4C'S UPCOMING COMMUNITY-WIDE EVENTS. Also, check out our webpage dedicated to the quilt, HERE. The page highlights the quilt's story and features the 180-plus sentiments written on the quilt.

Community Gatherings Will Help Shape Sisters Country

Civic engagement is a C4C cornerstone. So we’ve been partnering with Sisters Country Horizons to help promote broad participation in the visioning project. …

This week, Horizons is launching a series of public meetings. We urge you to attend one or more of these events and to invite your friends and neighbors along, too. Your input will help shape what Sisters Country will look and feel like for years to come. It’s the perfect time to engage…

C4C's 'Community Through Arts' Quilt Project Comes Together

The Sisters Country—Our Values, Our Vision—signature quilt that many of you helped create has moved into the quilting stage. During the past couple weeks, the quilt—which features more than 180 local sentiments—was sewn together. Seeing the squares brought together, each square with its own unique feel and message, has been very rewarding and exciting. The quilt offers such a nice metaphor for community. Thank you again to everyone who inked their values and visions—and even their sketches—onto the quilt.

Check Out Your New ‘Horizons'—the Visioning Project Website, Survey

You helped make Citizens4Community's recent visioning and quilt-signing booths a success. Special thanks to our volunteers and to Ray’s, Sisters Library and Suttle Tea for hosting these four events. Stay tuned for updates as the Community Values & Visioning Quilt comes colorfully alive and as C4C helps present a visioning event focusing on senior issues next month (April 25).

Sisters Country initiative to capture the community voice, plan for the future

A group of agencies and nonprofits, led by the City of Sisters, is embarking on a visioning and planning initiative to help determine what kind of community residents want Sisters Country to be in 5, 10 and 20 years.

The Sisters Country Horizons initiative will officially launch with a regional survey of residents in mid-March. Following several months of community outreach, visioning and planning work, a Vision Action Plan is expected to be released in late 2018 or early 2019.

Signature Quilt Project and Community Booths Will Spotlight Local Values, Visions

On March 9, Sisters Country will begin bringing to life an interactive piece of public art that will showcase the hopes of local residents—in their own words.

The Community Values & Visioning signature quilt project invites residents to ink short- to medium- length values statements onto pre-made fabric squares. This spring, those squares will be assembled into a finished quilt, which will be unveiled during the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS).

Consider Who Isn’t Coming 'To The Table'...

Then Consider Joining Us at The table

A new survey reports 71 percent of Americans believe important societal discussions have been silenced by political correctness; and most Americans now feel discouraged from sharing heartfelt opinions and beliefs.

“Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe the political climate today prevents them from saying things they believe,” notes Emily Ekins, author of the 2017 Free Speech and Tolerance Survey report. In some subgroups, up to 73 percent feel forced into silence, she reports.

Regional Influencers Consider Civility as a 'Cornerstone for Building Community'

Is “civility” a passé concept? Hopefully not now and not ever, noted C4C board members who recently led discussion during an inaugural Ford Family Foundation event.

Civility must not go out of style, they said, because new challenges will always keep coming; and civility is key to helping communities thrive while meeting those challenges.