Mission Statement

Envision Bend is the steward and champion of our community’s Vision, ensuring that the Vision remains vibrant, relevant and strategic by:

1) Convening the community periodically to revise and refresh the Vision.

2) Assembling diverse community stakeholders to advance initiatives and ideas grounded in the Vision.

3) Welcoming and engaging the community in a nonpartisan, inclusive manner to promote a healthy and livable city for all.

Transparency

We share our processes and our progress with the public to build trust and accountability in our work. We are honest about our challenges and setbacks and are open to learning from community feedback.

Inclusiveness

We invite, encourage, and welcome full community participation because we understand that all voices play an important role in shaping the future of our community. We create space for effective collaboration, and we trust the wisdom that emerges from this process.

Diverse Perspectives

We learn through dialogue and seek out and embrace diverse perspectives, experiences, and identities to have a voice at the table. We know the greater the diversity of the group, the more representative and powerful our vision and our strategies for achieving the vision will be.

Civility

We engage respectfully and professionally in tough conversations. We believe it is important to listen with the intention of building understanding, deepening relationships, and finding common ground.

Envision Bend is committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, equitable and welcoming community. Our organizational values serve as the four cornerstones for all our work: we value transparency, inclusiveness, diverse perspectives, and civility.

Envision Bend brings diverse stakeholders together to educate, engage and empower all members of the Bend area community to have a voice in our city’s future. As a community convener, we are committed to engaging stakeholders across the full spectrum of our community in a nonpartisan, welcoming and collaborative manner to promote a healthy and livable city for all. We also commit to helping those who face barriers to participation to have equal access to our projects and processes so they can engage in meaningful ways.

Envision Bend commits to providing education and training so that our employees, board and volunteers have a better understanding of diversity, equity, inclusion and acceptance issues affecting the community we serve. We also commit to denouncing acts and symbols of discrimination, hate, racism and harassment.