January 12, 2010
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Staff Meeting Minutes January 12, 2010 11:00 a.m.
Eleven people in attendance
-Review of Sunday meeting with potential board members
-Updates
-STARS
-Brown bag meeting next week
-Five people in attendance
-Home building combined open house
-Outreach from outside building
-Tremendous opportunity to sell programs
-Fliers, contacts and networking
-Classes becoming more solidified
-Dream a Sound Future
-Wrapping up flier and collages, done this weekend
-Crystal mountain ski resort marketing opportunity
-Networking Edgewater Hotel
-Sponsorships
-Sustainable Belltown
-SPU Urban AG
-Sustainable cities
-Events
-Creating a sustaining community events
-Revenue generating events
-Lunch at Dream, award ceremony
-S2 award ceremony
-Looking into venues and dates
-Fundraising opportunities at Dream functions
-Social networking tools to leverage to get the word out
-Communications meeting needed with Nathan and Eldon
-Branding session needed
-Building the platform so that community has a clear understanding of what we are all about
-Mission statement review, elevator speech, and so forth
-We need a stronger presence in the community
-Blog consistency
-Tone needs to be consistent
-Branding should not be so hard and fast (laura)
-Branding should not be top down, but inclusive
-PALS
-P.W. Grosser Consulting and environmental work
-Seattle City discussion
-PALS
-Facilitating meetings between businesses and activists
-Sustainable Cities
-Hannah the lead, has updated information on the website
-SCALLOPS
-Sustainable West Seattle
-Indicators and the events calendar
-Green Roof Walks
-Certifications and Awards
-Meeting with steering committee
-Looking for feedback on: marketing to businesses
-Possibly a mapping feature online
-Be a resource to the community
-An online list of businesses that are certified
-Criteria has not been defined yet but there is a foundation
-Charlie from Office of Sustainability has some ideas
-Consumer based?
-Awards are a repeat of past recipients
-Communications
-Calendar events
-Accessible to the public and the staff members
-SPARC
-Process of gearing back up after holidays
-Survey to potential clients
-Cedar River watershed group
-Identify the needs and developing a “winning composition”
-What can SPARC do and what will they receive in compensation
-Revenue and networking
-Need ideas for organizations for distribution of surveys
-What are the needs of the clients?
-SCALLOPS potential clients
-Developer will review a business plan
-Testing the survey with the staff first
-Video Skills
-Rough draft of flier and webpage
-Projects need to be started quickly
-Own video wants to be done by February
-Staff needs to be involved
-Animated illustration of the staff page
-Fundamentally a communications organization
-It would be better if we worked together
-Decentralized plans once the process is defined
-Start shooting the meetings
-Laura’s house by the beach for a shooting opportunity
-B Sustainable
-Working on indicators and processes
-Creating content
-Snoqualmie Valley Farmers Coalition
-Mapping GIS (Geographical Information System)
-B Sustainable is the background for many of the programs
-Community Development
-Neighbors Project
-Preliminary stages in choosing neighborhoods
-Grant proposal due January 27th
-Organizations that will match volunteer hours
-Community members set the goals
-Central district, north and south beacon hill, Duwamish river
-Megan developed a pilot project
-Will be speaking about the project
-Neighborhood indicators
-Potential organizations ideas are welcomed
-Gary Owens meeting January 19th here at S2 3:oo
-Marketing potential in showing what grants we are going for?
-Federal level is what we want to appeal to HUD (housing and urban development)
-Phocus
-Kim meeting today
-Grad student in public administration
-Meeting with Sean Schmidt on Wednesday since he wrote the white paper
-Meeting with Jay Citizens’ Guide to Democracy
-Ideas
-Online forum where citizens can bring up issues in their neighborhood and start a discussion
-Petition system for mobilization purposes for those who believe in a cause but do not have the time to get too involved
-Researching organizations about policy strategies, what works and what doesn’t
-Focus comes out of the organization fallout in the nineties
-Advocacy is a dangerous place if it is not two sided
-How can we integrate Focus to the other programs
-Forum where we provide information and access
-Describing policy and available resources
-Cyberia.org?
-Fundraising and Budget
-Rent is covered
-Contract day to figure out salaries when funding becomes available
-Approximately a 700K organization on labor costs
-Transparency needed
-Consulting fees
-Learning how to do budgeting or fundraising is a valuable skill to have
-Fundraising and Budget and Indicators
-What are the metrics or indicators to determine success of the program measures?
-Building a business plan
-Social Justice Components
-Six points to consider about social justice
-Available online
-Feedback welcomed
-Meeting for Race and Social Justice
-Website is a Wiki
-LIOS free training
-Resources for collaboration on the server
-Website updates should be checked by others first