Assess Your Community

As a leader, you need to provide Vision for your Grange. If you are going to provide some positive direction as a leader, you need to take a hard look at your community. It is important to assess the needs of your community.
This may seem easy as you live there, read the paper and talk to your friends, but a good assessment requires communication. You need to go out into the community and talk to people. Start by identifying some of your community leaders, especially ones you don’t normally talk to. The opinions of ministers, business leaders, civic leaders, government officials, law enforcement and fire department leaders all need to be a part of your assessment.
Ask them what they see as the big problems in your community. Then ask them how they think the Grange could be a part of the solution to the problem they have identified. Finally ask if they would suggest who else you need to talk to. The last step is to report to your Grange what you have discovered and begin building teams to address how the Grange will create solutions to the problems that have been uncovered.
Assess the needs of your community and find a cause that will help your Grange grow!