New Beginnings: Looking Forward from the 10-year Wellville Project
An open letter to our Wellville communities, partners and friends: On my hike early this morning, I paused for a moment – immersed in stillness,
February 18, 2025
An open letter to our Wellville communities, partners and friends: On my hike early this morning, I paused for a moment – immersed in stillness,
This is the story of how the Muskegon YMCA, long a pillar of the community of Muskegon County, MI, wove itself into a broader supporting fabric, reaching out beyond a physical building to serve community members in the community.
At Wellville, we use our basic quadrant chart not so much to describe ourselves, but to explore the mindset shift we want to foster. Our two axes are “short-term thinking” vs. “long-term thinking,” and “benefits just me” vs. “benefits all,” otherwise called “self-interest” vs. “shared interest.”
Wellville communities are learning that if we want better health, we need to shift our mindsets, collaborate, and ask better questions: What future do we want? What’s holding us back? And what will it take to get there?
Perhaps the best way to explain Wellville’s unusual role/methods is in a quadrant chart. Let’s call it the “Who decides?” chart. It visualizes how help is offered to communities by outsiders, including Wellville, who either tell you or ask you what to do or how to do it – or both! The “you” is the community members, in all their glory and variety of needs and capacities.
Announcing the launch of Wellville Stories, a video series that shares stories from the Wellville 5 communities.
And because businesses stand to gain they’re uniquely positioned to take steps to reduce it.
A new collective impact initiative in Muskegon County will work tirelessly, creatively, and collectively toward achieving its vision of being the healthiest county in Michigan by 2021.
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