What We Do
SALC provides collective leadership to improve the region’s economic climate and quality of life. It focuses its attention and resources where it can most contribute to helping solve major problems or to take advantage of significant opportunities. SALC works with other organizations in an effort to bring collaborative leadership to improving the Tucson region.
SALC is strategic in prioritizing which issues to work on and which to leave for another day.
Any member may initiate bringing a topic to the Board of Directors for consideration as an SALC priority. In making decisions on proposed issues, the Board of Directors applies three criteria:
- The issue must be strategic: It must be important to the community’s welfare, it must look toward the future, and it must complement and enhance other significant initiatives.
- There must be a reasonable chance to actually achieve an improvement or take advantage of an opportunity.
- There must be a champion who will lead the charge.
To assist in making and implementing these decisions, the Board of Directors has created several task forces. Each task force is composed of SALC members and is lead by a board member. The Strategic Initiatives Task Force generally is the first to review requests for support of new initiatives or requests that do not fit into other task forces. At least one member of the SALC staff serves on each task force, and as needed, outside experts are brought in as associate members of the task forces.
For shorter-term priorities, SALC creates action teams, each of which operates under the guidance of a task force and generally works a duration no longer than six months.
