Shared Vision

Shared Vision has a network of public institutional partners within the Albuquerque metropolitan area who have reached out to the community and encouraged citizens to become involved. The organization works collaboratively with these partners to structure citizen involvement processes that help to guide each agency's policies and programs. Over thirty elected officials have chaired Shared Vision town halls and forums.

Partnerships are needed in order to bring in as many resources as possible to achieve our community's vision and goals. Shared Vision facilitates productive relationships between government and the community, providing a neutral forum where citizens have the opportunity to interact and influence the direction of government.

When citizens participate, they have a sense of ownership in creating the kind of future they want. "People support what they help create."



	• Albuquerque Public Schools hired Shared Vision to conduct workshops on performance standards in Math and Language Arts in which teachers, parents, and administrators participated. These workshops enhanced teacher understanding of the new standards, and led to their support for use in the classroom beginning in the 2001-02 school year. • Focus groups provided information guiding a public relations campaign on the positive accomplishments of individual students and teachers in the school system.

	• Bernalillo County hired Shared Vision to hold community gatherings on the proposed Centers and Corridors amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. The community involvement and support led to their adoption by the County Commission in January 2002. These amendments describe the location of higher density, walkable, transit-oriented communities as a primary concept for the urban form of the metropolitan area.

	• A Forum on Planned Communities created a framework and criteria for types of growth desired in both new and existing areas and influenced critical growth policy decisions.

	• A Shared Vision town hall on Quality Growth highlighted four visiting mayors from Austin, Denver, Fort Collins and San Antonio to serve on a panel discussing quality growth strategies with Mayor Jim Baca.

	• A series of four town halls and community conversations on visualizing our future showed the potential of using design workshops for neighborhoods and developers to work collaboratively on development concepts for opportunity sites for infill projects within existing areas.

	• Shared Vision works collaboratively with the office and the Indicators Progress Commission to hold a Goals Forum on the City's vision and goals every four years.

	• Shared Vision held three town halls on economic vitality that resulted in an economic vitality strategy adopted by the City and County.

	• Shared Vision worked collaboratively with the Water Resources Division on a community forum providing education and policy direction on moving forward with the City's plans to use the San Juan-Chama diversion to supplement the municipal water supply and reduce drawdown of the aquifer.