I just booked a group that wanted to meet here in our meeting room. I looked them up online to see what they were all about. Following is the worst mission statement I’ve ever seen. (They couldn’t afford to rent our big room, because they blew their budget on five dollar words.) I still can’t figure out what they do…

Mission
Collaborating with partners of government, community-based organizations, communities and the private sector, we provide a community engagement and dialogue clearinghouse:

• To provide capacity training and resources to build individual and collective skills and knowledge in small and large-scale engagement and dialogue processes
• To facilitate customized community engagement and dialogue design and facilitation
• To convene community engagement and dialogue processes
• To collect and publish information and best practices of community engagement planning, strategic engagement, organizational renewal and public policy development.