Community Impact Tool

Need help with the Community Impact Tool?  

Contact Brian Gion, cooperative development specialist, at (701) 667-6440 or bgion@ndarec.com

 

 

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Lindsey Grocery

What One Person Brings to a Community

As we strive to enhance the quality of life in our communities, counties and states, it’s important to recognize the factors that contribute to that improvement. This includes having access to services, such as restaurants, doctors, grocery stores, plumbers, electricians, schools, repair shops, hardware stores and law enforcement. To keep these services, we rely on people to spend money in our communities, counties and states. One way to increase spending and repeat business is to provide high-quality customer service and hospitality at all levels of the community, county and state.

We've developed a software tool to show the gross dollar impact an individual or individuals have on a business, community, county or area over a period of a year. 

The software tool also serves as a hard copy visual tool, which shows the importance of individuals to communities plus the results of both good and bad customer service. It may also show how high-quality or low-quality customer service from one entity can affect other businesses in the area.

The Community Impact Tool is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. You must have Microsoft Excel installed on your desktop, laptop or mobile device to use this tool.