5.
Proposed Ideas For 2026
Video
· Group wants to do video
· Wayne shared that individual success stories videos had been impactful in previous
years (like this one: <https://youtu.be/ry8qfXN8HcY>)
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A few members encouraged focusing not just on people who were housed, but also
people who may still be unhoused but making progress
Jaime Notified the group that she has been collecting success stories and we may
be able to start with those for both videos and posters. Potentially have committee
review those identify a theme and then see if there are gaps and gather more
success stories based on the gaps
· Jamie proposed possibly using Powerpoint as the tool to create the video. Can do it
as sort of a slide show and add music and potentially even voice over and then
export it to Youtube. The group will not have access to CCH communications team
this year for this piece.
Toolkit
· Group agreed that they would like to pursue the toolkit this year.
Posters
· Group agreed that they would like to pursue posters this year.
· One COH member said the posters were their favorite thing we did last year!
· Jaime proposed using the same people featured in the videos and also pulling all of
this from existing success stories
· Next meeting will need to figure out overall theme or message for posters and video
Recognitions/Awards
· Group agreed that they would like to pursue recognitions again
· Making recognitions more meaningful
o Extensive discussion about how to make recognitions more meaningful. Last
year, particularly for the partnership group, there were so many nominees
and so many partners within each nomination that it became very hard to
manage the recognition at the event and also the feeling was that it diluted
the importance of the recognition.
o Ideas
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noting all nominees in all of the printed and published materials but
only doing certificates and actual recognitions for the Phoenix Rising
category.
limiting the categories only to people experiencing homelessness
instead of people working/volunteering to support people experiencing
homelessness
Creating an actual award for one to five nominees instead of
recognizing everyone. Group decided this might not be feasible
because it would require developing a rubric for how to pick the
winners and didn’t feel in the spirit of the event to be exclusive.
§ Staff could do campaign with electeds to notify them of their
constituents being recognized so they could do their own special
recognitions of them to add significance
§ Gget photos of nominees in advance and just have a slide deck with
their photos instead of having the people in person to be recognized.
