Hello to our SF Bay COO Core Collaborators,
My first attempt to use InterMix to communicate to the Core group ran into a technical problem. Here I am trying again to send a message to our Core Collaborators subgroup, which consists of 11 persons at this point: Tom Ray, Brian Webster, Mary Jane Mikuriya, Jim Barnett, Doug Merritt, Orlando Raolo, Pablo Castro, Scott Haeger, Antonia Lavine and Roger Eaton, Elizabeth Weinberg as co-chairs of the effort, I will also send a short email to everyone here with our phone numbers and emails.
The Core Collaborators need to meet before the next general meeting, which is Thursday, March 13, same place as before, the AAACC, 762 Fulton.
We (Core group) are scheduled to have a for Tuesday, February 25, 6:00 pm, also at AAACC - third floor conference room. So far I have positive responses from Tom Scott, Mary Jane, Jim and Eliz. Plus I can be there, so we have a quorum but would much like for everyone to make it: Doug, Pablo, Orlando, Doug, Brian and Antonia.
Our agenda:
1) More about what membership means, including what to do if a member organization disagrees with a published policy of the Council.
2) We already agree we support the noble goals of the UN - peace, human rights, sustainable development and so forth. I would like to propose that we adopt an ambitious mission to unite Bay Area civil society in support of those UN goals.
3) I would also hope we might agree to use the Collective Impact framework for organizing ourselves.
4) Are we agreed on making the UN 70th for Oct 24, 2015 our centerpiece activity?
Please add items to our agenda by replying to this message via InterMix.
I encourage everyone to explore the online capabilities of our InterMix Voices of Humanity listserve. It is going to take a while to get used to, partly because of its novel features and partly because it is new and needs some rough edges taken care of. It is easy to reply to this or other messages online. If you are set to receive subgroup messages right away, you can also just reply by email and your reply will go out to everyone in our Core subgroup. Please invest in learning how to use InterMix since this is going to be our "continuous communication" facility. I will be happy to go over things with you.
Good news! Scott Haeger is going to be doing outreach for us. I have created a script for telephone contacts and an email for him to send. Please view the script and email at:
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1jgtZ8Qxq3EXj-uLhFgT5cETfPs_ZFNeqqZ1MogTkImQ/view
Outreach to the women's groups has begun. If you have any concerns, please reply about them here in our subgroup.
So far so good!
-- Roger Eaton
rogerweaton@gmail.com
415 933 0153
