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Strategic Doing

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Mul­ti­ply­ing our impact by Strate­gic Doing

A huge thank you to every­one who joined us in April 2025 for our Strate­gic Doing meet­ing! Your ener­gy, ideas, and com­mit­ment to our com­mu­ni­ty made it a true suc­cess. 

We’re excit­ed to roll up our sleeves and start putting some of these plans into action. Change doesn’t hap­pen overnight—but with a room full of pas­sion­ate peo­ple like you, we’re well on our way. 

Let’s keep the momen­tum going!  Want to vol­un­teer to help get one of these projects off the ground? 

Give us a call at 785–728-7800 to chat about where you think you want to help or any ideas you want to give!

Our Strengths

  • Beau­ti­ful Down­town
  • Library
  • GAC
  • Fort Hays Tech North­west
  • Golf Course
  • Top­side Trail
  • Sher­man The­atre
  • 4‑H Pro­grams
  • Home-Owned Car­ni­val
  • Max Jones

Potential Projects

  • Splash Park
  • Expand Pub­lic Trans­porta­tion
  • Com­mu­ni­ty Kitchen
  • Tree Farm
  • Expand Top­side Trail
  • Com­mu­ni­ty Cal­en­dar
  • Devel­op Exit 19
  • 17th Street Ditch Spruce Up
  • Out­door Bike Park/Trail

Happening Now

  • Hos­pi­tal Ren­o­va­tion
  • New Child­care Home
  • Updat­ing Sig­nage in Town

 

 

 

 

 

What is Strate­gic Doing?

Strate­gic Doing teach­es peo­ple how to form col­lab­o­ra­tions quick­ly, move them toward mea­sur­able out­comes and make adjust­ments along the way. In today’s world, col­lab­o­ra­tion is essen­tial to meet the com­plex chal­lenges we face. Strate­gic Doing enables lead­ers to design and guide new net­works that gen­er­ate inno­va­tion solu­tions. It is a new strat­e­gy dis­ci­pline that is lean, agile and fast–just what orga­ni­za­tions, com­mu­ni­ties and regions need to sur­vive and thrive. 

Why we do Strate­gic Doing?

Each Coun­ty’s Com­mu­ni­ty foun­da­tion (or Hansen grant review com­mit­tee) has an agree­ment with the Hansen Foun­da­tion. In that, the Foun­da­tion agreed to offer addi­tion­al unre­strict­ed grant funds through 2021 for coun­ties that “par­tic­i­pate in and con­tin­ue to pur­sue in good faith the goals and objec­tives of the Strate­gic Doing Ini­tia­tive.”

​The Hansen Foun­da­tion Trustees hope the oppor­tu­ni­ty for addi­tion­al funds will allow coun­ties to think beyond the imme­di­ate. It is the expec­ta­tion of the Trustees that the first facil­i­tat­ed meet­ings are only the start of the work that can, and hope­ful­ly will, hap­pen in our coun­ties. The com­mu­ni­ty meet­ings are designed to get things start­ed, the strate­gic part of you will. the doing part will hap­pen both now and into the future!