Community Success Panel

The Community Success Panel (founded in 2010) led the selection of Communities of Excellence, which uses the Baldrige framework. The goal is to drive Midland County to a higher level of overall community performance, where various community entities are all working together to deliver collective impact across the areas of health, education, the economy, and quality of life. The Community Success Panel sponsors the Communities of Excellence 2026 process.  

The Community Success Panel’s purpose is to enhance prosperity in Midland County by gathering key stakeholders to envision our best future through sharing ideas, building productive relationships, and aligning economic development efforts.

Inspired by a peer community assessment of Columbus, Indiana, in 2010, community leaders were brought together by a partnership of the Midland Area Chamber of Commerce, the City of Midland, and Midland Tomorrow to determine to what extent local institutions, each with a stake in the long-term success of Midland, were aligned in their individual efforts to expand economic opportunities and prosperity for all residents and businesses. 

Participants come together in a spirit of collaboration to find commonality as they work to:

• Develop a community-wide economic development plan, the cornerstone of a thriving community

• Encourage alignment of the work conducted by each member organization with the community-wide plan

• Seek and foster operational efficiencies and improvements among member organizations

• Develop key indicators to measure and evaluate the impact of the initiative on the community’s prosperity and economic growth

• Pursue funding options to assist with key initiatives and programs which support the initiative

MEETING RECAPS