“You ask, ‘Where are all of the great leaders today?’ That way of thinking does not work any more. It is all of us.”

— Grace Lee Boggs, community activist,
age 92, interviewed
by Bill Moyers

Community Engagement work helps you build involvement and commitment to address community issues.

Use sustainable collaboration among all stakeholders for increased impact and greater equity in areas such as healthcare, education, criminal justice and others.

Community engagement work is centered on the principles and practices of…

• Getting all constituent voices in the room
• Using strategic questions that will make a difference
• Supporting genuine dialogue
• Self–organizing for change and planning first steps
• Making commitments for action

In partnership with Meisner and Associates, landscape architects and urban planners, Oasis has designed and co–facilitated public involvement processes to create land use vision plans for Highway 32 in Clermont County and for the Eastern Corridor, encompassing multiple jurisdictions.

Other community engagement work includes co–leading “Dialogue Across Difference” groups to build understanding between people of differing race, class, ethnic background and political perspective.