Community Service Projects
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Jan 16, 2012, 5:31:14 PM1/16/12
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Do any of your coworking locations complete any community service
projects?
Thanks,
Jodi Dean
Former Owner, OurSpace
Grant Writer, Gallup Catholic School
projects?
Thanks,
Jodi Dean
Former Owner, OurSpace
Grant Writer, Gallup Catholic School
Katie Charland
Jan 17, 2012, 5:43:02 PM1/17/12
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Jodi --
All of our locations have a community outreach component connected to
local nonprofit organizations. We put on food drives, programs for at-
risk youth, planning to do a community garden, etc. Local nonprofits
are also invited to come in and present on their work to help raise
awareness and recruit volunteers for their organizations.
If you have any other questions, let me know!
On Jan 16, 3:31 pm, "ourspacefortwa...@gmail.com"
All of our locations have a community outreach component connected to
local nonprofit organizations. We put on food drives, programs for at-
risk youth, planning to do a community garden, etc. Local nonprofits
are also invited to come in and present on their work to help raise
awareness and recruit volunteers for their organizations.
If you have any other questions, let me know!
On Jan 16, 3:31 pm, "ourspacefortwa...@gmail.com"
Niki
Jan 29, 2012, 4:07:26 PM1/29/12
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A lot of the goals for my space is to support the community -- both the internal cowork community and the external community in which we're located. We are working on creating a "dress for success" type program where we work with women helping them with resume skills, job etiquette skills, clothing for the interview, and more. We are starting a free cycle group where once a month people can bring in the treasures that they no longer want, and people can pick up things that they want (FREE OF CHARGE). This helps the community and keeps items out of the landfills. We open our spaces to home based businesses on the weekends so that they have a place to showcase their wares -- this also gets people downtown so that the other stores in the downtown business district benefit by foot traffic as well. Have also just started working with the high school and their business class students to provide internships and ways for the kids to put their textbook learning to real world use. There are a lot of community support projects that we're focused on and it's an exciting time!
Niki
Niki
Susan Evans
Jan 30, 2012, 7:42:37 PM1/30/12
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Great question Jodi!
The first things that come to mind for me are:
-Donating coworking memberships to local nonprofits for fundraising auctions (not really the most meaningful, but has been helpful to folks in the past)
-Collecting toys and other Christmas gifts for an Adopt-A-Family program around the holidays (which was wildly successful!)
Alexandra, our Community Cultivator, is currently reaching out to the members to see if they wanted to participate as a group in a Habitat for Humanity building day or something along those lines. I'll keep you posted as to how that goes.
It's all little stuff, but I thought I'd mention it!
Looking forward to hearing more about what other spaces do.
Susan
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Niki <na...@thessbi.com> wrote:
A lot of the goals for my space is to support the community -- both the internal cowork community and the external community in which we're located. We are working on creating a "dress for success" type program where we work with women helping them with resume skills, job etiquette skills, clothing for the interview, and more. We are starting a free cycle group where once a month people can bring in the treasures that they no longer want, and people can pick up things that they want (FREE OF CHARGE). This helps the community and keeps items out of the landfills. We open our spaces to home based businesses on the weekends so that they have a place to showcase their wares -- this also gets people downtown so that the other stores in the downtown business district benefit by foot traffic as well. Have also just started working with the high school and their business class students to provide internships and ways for the kids to put their textbook learning to real world use. There are a lot of community support projects that we're focused on and it's an exciting time!
Niki
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