HISTORY

The City of Pleasanton, Pleasanton Unified School District and the Pleasanton Chamber of

Commerce have been actively participating in the program by encouraging people to work

together to ensure that individuals and families are strong, homes and streets are safe,

education is effective, businesses are productive and citizens care for one another.

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MISSION STATEMENT

COMMUNITY OF CHARACTER COALITION
(voted on May 23, 2005)

The Mission of the Pleasanton Community of Character Collaborative is to create a community culture built on values, goodwill and community-accepted character traits of honesty, self-respect, compassion, self-discipline, responsibility, respect by:

• INSPIRING individuals, families and organizations within the City of Pleasanton to take responsibility for their choices and actions;
  
• MOTIVATING individuals, families and organizations within The City of Pleasanton to make a difference in the world around them;
  
• RECOGNIZING individuals, families and organizations within The City of Pleasanton for modeling the accepted Community of Character traits.
  

VISION STATEMENT

The Pleasanton Community of Character Collaborative seeks to engender a community culture of internalized values, goodwill, and the finest human character traits through community support and education by inspiring citizens to make a difference in the world around them while honoring the diversity that makes our country great.

GOALS

• We will endeavor to gain the support of our community leaders in modeling and promoting good character;
• We will learn how character is built into the lives of individuals and adopt character initiatives that apply to each segment within our community;
• We will strive to establish a community culture that encourages, recognizes, and Rewards good character;
• We will emphasize character, not achievement, since achievement with demonstrated effort, by its very nature, requires good character;
• We will evaluate every decision, policy, and law on the basis of whether it rewards good character;
• We will assess all of our activities on a regular basis to ensure we are making progress toward our goal of becoming a community known for the good character of its citizens.

Goals and Objectives

We brainstormed and came up with these goals and objectives. We suggest that we break up into subcommittees to refine and add to these at our next meeting. We ask that each of you volunteer to serve on one of these committees. Our next meeting will be held on June 27th at the Chamber of Commerce Offices, 444 Peters Street at 4pm. Please attend this meeting. Also if you can e mail me the committee you would prefer to be on, I will accommodate you.

This is as far as we got with the specifics. More to come when we all get together.

• Goal: We will endeavor to gain the support of our community leaders in modeling and promoting good character;

Solicit the following groups and others to sign and support the "Pleasanton Pledge":

• School Board
• City Council
• Businesses
• Parks and Rec.
• PTA's
• Faith Community
• Non Profits
• Police
• Fire
• Rotary
• Lions Club
• City Committees

We will strive to establish a community culture that encourages, recognizes, and rewards good character;

• Work with local papers to publicize what the coalition is doing
  
• Work on a newsletter that would highlight things that business people could be doing in their businesses to promote and model good character (e.g. "Respect in the Workplace.")
  
• Public nominations and recognition

We will learn how character is built into the lives of individuals and adopt character initiatives that apply to each segment within our community

• Support the Civic Mission of Schools initiative