The following is edited from a recent press release:
"The Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines and the Greater Des Moines Partnership are collaborating with local government, education, healthcare and other local business and community leaders on a strategic community and economic development planning process to create a shared vision and strategic plan for Greater Des Moines and Central Iowa. A community and economic development consulting firm will facilitate the work. The steering committee findings will generate an action plan with a long-term perspective, implementation strategies and a framework for measuring results and progress."
As someone with experience at a large Dilbert-like for-profit entity, as well as financially-inept non-profit entity, let me interpret this for you:
"As organizations that pay their employees from membership dues and/or taxpayers, we feel that every so often we need to act like we're doing something to justify our otherwise useless existence, not to mention our unnecessary jobs and salaries. Therefore, we're joining forces to have a bunch of meetings, which of course requires us to pay for the services of a consultant because that makes it look even more important. In the end, you can bet that we'll keep our jobs, the consultant will make a bunch of money, and nothing will actually come from this, except that members and taxpayers are going to get rolled."
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