Projects : Class Projects

• Economic Development Service Team
  This team worked to establish an avenue for connecting local employers and qualified employees through universities, trade schools, job fairs, and career centers. 
  Asheville Participants on this team:
  Mike Armour
  Linda Biggers
  John Campbell
  Jim Coman
  Patty Couch
  Tom Frederick
  Ronald Storto
  Jon Yarbrough
  
  
• Education Service Team
  This team prepared a preliminary plan for Youth Leadership Asheville, a program that targets high school students in Asheville and Buncombe County Schools.  The Team also identified the beginnings of a Youth Leadership Asheville Advisory Committee and discussed a tentative curriculum for the program.
  Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:
  Jim Geter
  Debbie Harmon
  Julie Heinitsh
  Paul Jeremias
  Rhett Langston
  Jeff Richardson
  Dan Scannell
  
  
• Government Service Team
  This team created a multimedia compact disk for local governments in the region to advocate for the “Asheville Program,” a successful health management program to improve the health of city workers and lower costs.
  Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:
  Leslie Burnside
  Greg Dillingham
  John Richard
  Ross Robinson
  Ed Seel
  Mandy Stone
  Robyn Tomlin
  
  
• Infrastructure Service Team
  This team joined with the City of Asheville bus system on the placement of benches and bus shelters.  The Team rode all bus routes, interviewed bus drivers and riders determine the best locations for benches and shelters.
  Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:
  Mike Bohan
  Ted Durham
  Hugh McCollum
  Cindy McMahon
  Chip Neal
  Nancy Righi
  Terry Scholl
  Mark Tooley
  
  
• Private Sector Service Team
  This team worked to create an elder care resource directory for Asheville and Buncombe County.  In considering the “invisible issue: of elder care, the group identified five different key areas of caregiving for which there are significant and underutilized resources.
  Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:
  Betty Doll
  Richard Fort
  Dennis Giles
  Carol Hubbard
  Liz Huesemann
  David Kemper
  Elizabeth Morosani
  
  
• Quality of Life Service Team
  This team surveyed graduates of the Leadership Asheville program with the goal of helping the program to become more diverse in curriculum, participants, and process.  The Team also surveyed those who had expressed an interest in Leadership Asheville but had not applied, in order to determine obstacles to participation.
  Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:
  Scott Barber
  Betty Huff
  Jeff Imes
  Tom Knoebber
  Victoria Lyall
  Stephanie Mohr
  Simone Seitz
  Kerry Shannon

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