WHAT WE DO

 

Vision Shared is successful because we invite all stakeholders who care about an issue to take part in addressing it. We attract volunteers from the public and private sector and provide them with the staff support and resources they need to accomplish their goals. Each volunteer team structures its activities according to direction from the Board of Directors and a team charter that outlines the group’s scope of work and goals.

All Vision Shared teams work as part of an interdisciplinary approach to addressing some of West Virginia’s most critical needs. Our Board of Directors has identified three target areas on which we will be concentrating our efforts:

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Workforce Development/Education
  • Research/Commercialization.

Stay tuned for more information about Vision Shared’s strategic plan for affecting positive change in those three target areas.

OUR WORK PLAN

 

Vision Shared is committed to advancing West Virginia’s economy through the activities of the volunteer teams that make up our four steering committees, Intellectual Infrastructure, New Economy, Building Bridges and Empowering Citizens and Results-Based Government. We also will continue to measure the state’s economic progress through our annual Performance Measures Report, which can be found here.

The Vision Shared Board of Directors is in the process of updating our strategic work plan. We’ll have more information available soon.

Some areas where Vision Shared will direct its activities going forward include continuing to improve community health and well being by promoting recommendations from the Roadmap to Health work groups. We will also leverage and support entrepreneurs and researchers by promoting the Bucks for Brains research trust fund and other innovative programs for entrepreneurship. Vision Shared will also enhance West Virginia’s image through Generation West Virginia, Create West Virginia and other strategies to enhance the state’s ability to retain and recruit young talent.

We understand the changes we are enacting require constant vigilance and attention to come to fruition. We also understand these changes will take time, and that the work we do today may not be noticeable immediately. With the governor, the legislature and countless West Virginians behind our program, and with the outpouring of support we receive from the public, the future looks bright indeed for all of West Virginia.