Raquel Ketterman Cumberland Jul 18, 2012 11:01 am

Hi there! Cumberland is in the early stages of researching local barriers to residential tree planting. In just under 2 weeks we are holding our first Focus Group following the recommendations by CBSM.

We also have a great community survey live right now that is getting many respondents!! You can check our survey out at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...Z1bWc6MQ#gid=0 .

Have any of your organizations conducted a focus group recently, and if so what were lessons learned? What would you have done differently? What questions worked/what questions didn't work?

Our plans for our focus group are to provide dinner and an incentive ($), in a comfortable environment. Our agenda includes a thought envoking slide show, 4 discussion questions, and a closing thought envoking slideshow. We will collect the data by recording, note taking, and by collecting the structured slideshow notes from the group.

Thank you for any last-minute recommendations that we can include in our activity!!!

Raquel Ketterman
City of Cumberland
United States