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Engagement
Cortez Residents Demystify Local Government with a Community Guide
To help Cortez residents better understand their government and how it works, one group of locals wrote the guide.
Photo by Matthew Tangeman
Local government can feel mystifying, and navigating it can be confusing and overwhelming for residents; with many departments and jurisdictions, locals sometimes struggle to know whom to contact in each municipality. To help Cortez residents better understand their government and how it works, members of the League of Women Voters of Montezuma County came up with a simple solution: create a community guide that could be distributed both in print and digital formats. LOR’s funding helped support the design and printing of more 2,500 guides, making local government that much easier for residents to access. Check out the project and the work of Cortez locals below.
Filmed and edited by Matthew Tangeman
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Nicci Crowley
nicci@lorfoundation.orgNicci prides herself on being a connector of people and ideas—a trait that’s central to her work as the LOR Foundation’s community officer in Cortez, Colorado. She listens to community members to understand the challenges they collectively face and then… Meet Nicci
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