Inviting New Members

[Kim Bethke]

Hi Everyone, 

I'm interested in reaching out to more RANACAs in Toronto to get involved in our conversations, and I wanted to know your thoughts.

For example: The Federation of North Toronto Residents’ Associations (FoNTRA) represents 28 member organizations, and associations in the East and West (and the Island). I feel like reaching out can only improve our understanding of how best to manage community associations in a variety of settings and that even if organizations can't physically attend our meet-ups, their input will be valuable to everyone. 

what do you think?

Kim Bethke

Dovercourt Park Community Association

[Jessica Wilson]

Hi all,
I'm all for directly contacting additional individual organizations. FONTRA, however, is its own umbrella group, and I don't think it would be a good idea to try to access the residential organizations under that umbrella *via* FONTRA. There are also issues here to consider---perhaps at our next meeting?---about what RANACA's mandate is, what the intended scope of its membership is, and how RANACA's mandate and scope might or might not differ from that of other umbrella organizations.
--Jessica

On 2013-11-27, at 8:28 AM, Kim Bethke <doverco...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm interested in reaching out to more RANACAs in Toronto to get involved in our conversations, and I wanted to know your thoughts.
>
> For example: The Federation of North Toronto Residents’ Associations (FoNTRA) represents 28 member organizations, and associations in the East and West (and the Island). I feel like reaching out can only improve our understanding of how best to manage community associations in a variety of settings and that even if organizations can't physically attend our meet-ups, their input will be valuable to everyone.
>
> what do you think?
>
>
>

> Kim Bethke
> Dovercourt Park Community Association
>

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I think the mandate of RANACA has always been very clear - and as Kim said, sharing best practices in how to manage an association. In that light I think contacting more organizations individually makes complete sense but contacting them through Fontra doesn't.

The OMB update from Jessica falls outside that mandate and so in many ways our next meeting isn't really a RANACA meeting but is just using the connections we've made through RANACA because there was such interest that it made sense for us to engage.

Todd

[Jessica Wilson]

Sorry, I should probably know this or know how to find this out, but what is the mandate of RANACA, exactly?

[Kim Bethke]

Hi Jessica,

I think of RANACA as a working group tasked to uncover best practices for associations like ours, and CORRA as our advocates.

From our old planning emails, we started this with a mandate "to bring together members of Toronto Residents/Community/

Neighborhood associations to discuss best practices for starting, maintaining, and growing organizations".

I would like to work with the group to define what best practices we're interested in working on (what elements fall under the mandate) since development is a huge concern for many members of our group.

I hope that helps!

Kim

[Jessica Wilson]

It does, thanks.