Meeting Wednesday 2-18
Phil Ritter
Dear Friends ….
Our next Outreach Team Meeting on Wednesday the 18th will be at Lisa’s house at 530 Barron Avenue in Palo Alto at 7:00pm.
Lisa will provide chicken tacos, rice and beans if you want to kick in for the cost. Please let me know if we should order for you.
The agenda so far:
1. Continue update on Partnerships
2. Outreach to Members on our list
3. Outreach to labor, healthcare, schools, churches
4. Volunteer Coordinators
Here are the Notes from our last meeting:
January 21, 2015
Present: Lisa, Annie, Len, Stew, Mark Grossman, Lynn and Phil Ritter
PARTNERSHIP BUILDING: Stew provided an update on potential partner contacts and the need for clarity on how to coordinate with 350 Bay Area on regional organizations which will partner with us on South Bay campaigns. Lisa will discuss with the new team leader for 350 BA outreach and report back.
RESPONSE TO VOLUNTEERS FROM WEBSITE: Phil will get the names of people who have offered to volunteer on the website and make contact with them by email and phone to see what they are interested in. Does anyone else want to volunteer to help with this?
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR: We have sent an email to the 350SV list asking for someone to step up and take on the Volunteer Coordinator job for the different areas we work in (San Mateo, Palo Alto, San Jose). In the meantime the Outreach Team will take responsibility for engagement with our members who are not now active on a team.
OUTREACH TO MEMBERS: As a first step we will find a venue in the Palo Alto area where we can invite current members to a monthly (second
Wednesday) event where they can learn more about 350 and our response to the Climate Crisis and have an opportunity to socialize and discuss current climate issues. Lisa will look into Antonio's Nut House and report back.
OUTREACH TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: Phil and Lynn have the list of labor organizations which supported the Peoples' Climate March and will research which unions on that list have locals in the South Bay. The new cut of the Disruption film will be out soon and we will start setting up screenings of the film for union groups and for church groups.
NEXT MEETING: Wednesday February 18 at Lisa's house.
Stew Plock
PARTNERSHIP BUILDING: We have learned a lot over the past 6 weeks from our first experiences in making contact with partners. Nicole and Stew developed a 350SV Partnerships Strategy presentation and recently reviewed it with Lisa and Phil. Next step is to review the presentation with the 350SV Coordinating Committee for their feedback and support. Then we will review the strategy with all 350SV partner developers/contact persons and then get back to working with each of our partner developers.
Personal request, Phil...for people who are already developing partnerships from our spreadsheet or that are signed up to do more, I would request that they be allowed to focus their efforts on this kind of outreach--partnering to the environmental/climate change organizations--and that they not be asked by Outreach to, for example, go forward in outreaching to either our 350SV members or to community organizations..partnerships team members like Annie, Ray, Steve Rosenblum, Steve Eittreim will be busy enough developing their partners.
RESPONSE
TO VOLUNTEERS FROM WEBSITE: I met with Matt Wyatt-he's one that had volunteered from the website- he works at Hidden Villa where I volunteer on Wednesdays- he has some solid experience in campaign volunteer development and is very interested in 350SV. His wife is a Sierra Club program manager in SF. We need to have our first Happy Hour and invite them both.
VOLUNTEER
COORDINATOR: My input here is that we are beyond the time for asking for volunteers for these key positions. My suggestion would be that we draft up a job description of what we want our volunteer coordinators to do, then ask the Coordinating Committee to identify, with us, specific individuals we can target to recruit to take these key jobs.
OUTREACH
TO MEMBERS: Looks like both of us went to check out the Tied House..not practical for our needs. I still think we should try getting our members to attend Green Drinks rather than starting our own. If we use Green Drinks as a venue (eg, in Palo Alto, McArthur Park), we could get our local partner contacts involved and get to know them better; if we have our own party, they would be less likely to attend, my guess. Whatever we do, I think we should pick a date and place and go for it...should check with the Coordinating Committee to see if they agree on the plan.
OUTREACH TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: Tied in with my comments under partnership building, it would be my preference that a separate cadre of speakers/presenters be recruited from the 350SV ranks to do this..people who are not already signed up for partnership development. If were really going to do this, I'd suggest we have a strategy discussion...what materials required for delivery, what training, what equipment, how many organizations are we targeting, how many skilled speakers do we need, is this the best way to get the message out (presenting one at a time) to the non-environmental public, could college students play a role in this for us? Lot of questions...
Stew
