Rural Quality Coalition

2004 Organizational Accomplishments

Land Use Projects

RQC adopted positions, made recommendations to government bodies, attended county-wide government meetings and weighed in on the following land use projects and issues in Nevada County:

• Second Units
• Deer Creek Park II
• Wolf Creek Ranch Estates
• Nevada County Draft Housing Element of the General Plan
• Nisenan park and recreation districts
• 30% slope ordinance
• Grass Valley annexations
• Nevada City co-housing project.

Programs

• Email alert system
• Quarterly newsletter
• Donor solicitation
• Summer market outreach and education
• Alliance building with Federation of Neighborhood Associations and Property Owners For Fire Safety.

Events

• Earth day
• Federation of Neighborhood Associations Fair
• July Barbecue Fundraiser
• Dinner/Auction Fundraiser
• Annual General Meeting

Internal Accomplishments

• Contracted an organizational consultant and project manager
• Obtained a state of the art database
• Developed organization website
• Recruited volunteer photographer
• Developed email system of almost 600 emails
• Identified, contacted and added to supporter base 64 neighborhood groups
• Developed resource library of books and maps
• Generated yearly solicitation appeal letters to 3 databases
• Created monthly donor program
• Set up central file system
• Quadrupled contact base
• Doubled funds from direct donor solicitation
• Formed land use committee
• Refined Board structure and began solicitation of new board members
• Created effective financial records