Community Session
PLEASE NOTE: This event is by invite only due to limited space. We will hold these events periodically throughout the summer. If you would like to receive an invite to a future community session, please email sebel@dishmanhills.org
The purpose of this meeting is to continue the listening and learning sessions started earlier in June around the potential merger of DHC and Inland Northwest Land Conservancy. Read below for some updated information.
An update regarding the merger exploration process
Thank you again to everyone who completed the survey, attended recent community meetings, or shared insights in other ways. You spoke, we listened, and we heard you. We are grateful for your thoughtful feedback, and your questions, ideas, and concerns are helping to shape this important conversation and process.
Some members expressed understanding and support for the concept of a proposed merger, while others raised important questions or concerns. For a merged organization to reach its full potential, broad support from members of both organizations would be essential. That kind of support is built on trust.
For some, that trust is already present. Others have shared that they need more time, information, and engagement before determining whether a merged organization is the right path forward. Land conservancies understand better than most the significant investment of time, relationship building, and careful evaluation required when considering a prospective opportunity. For that reason, the community engagement phase of the merger exploration process will continue without a fixed timeline, in order to create space for further listening, reflection, and dialogue. Our members are the lifeblood of our organizations, and your perspectives are important to our discernment process.
This continued engagement may take many forms, including individual conversations, group discussions, collaborative projects, meetings, or other ideas that emerge from members and community partners. Each organization will continue to monitor its own strategic direction throughout this process. It is also important that DHC has the time it needs to consider questions raised during the engagement process about its interests, needs, and future.
