2010 Community Planning Meeting Agenda - February, 17th 2010

2010 Community/Planning Meeting

Introductions: (10 minutes)

Brief Explanation of Consensus: (5 minutes)

Brief History of Food Not Bombs Movement: (5 minutes)

Bravado: The Coming Year, Realities, Challenges, & The need for Mutual Support. (5 minutes)

Questions/General Discussion of the coming year: (20 minutes)

• Questions/Discussion: Of current event/ project ideas, new ideas & priorities.

Re-Organizing/Specialization: (20 minutes) Discussion=>Delegation.

• Food Share Point People: 2+ people who oversee the pickups, materials, organization and discussions at individual food shares.
• Specialized Tasks: organizational leaders for Zines, Gardening, Outreach, Events, Food Sources, Clothing, Community Issues at each Food Share, Materials, Media, Tabling, Cooking, Translations, etc… These organizers would lead up online forum discussions, meetings, help recruit volunteers, keep track of participants, etc…
• On call lists: Creating a list of people to help with regular pickups and a list for backups.
• During Food Shares: Creating Checklists, incorporating new people/ideas, conflict reduction, confronting sexual harassment/ gender/ sexuality discrimination. Encouraging people to participate!
• Creating Mutual Support System: Supporting community and participants, preventing burnout and alienation & confronting engrained social issues.

Outreach/Events: (15 minutes) Discussion=>Delegation.

• Outreach Tools: Promote newsletter, facebook, twitter, sms, etc… create buttons, t-shirts, patches, promote diy free events like dumpstering nights, flower bombing, art projects.
• Outreach & Coalition Building: Expand the range of organizations we talk to, outreaching to schools, community groups, bands, businesses, art galleries, etc… (Anything really)
• Events/Benefits: We need mouthy outreach events to bring in money, new volunteers, gain attention (specific focus on Huntington).
• Introduction to Upcoming Events/Projects: (10 minutes)

What’s Probably Coming: Nonprofit work & Nonprofit Coalition Meeting (next mouth), Fundraising for Nonprofit, Benefit Events, Peach Tree Project (March-June), New Chapter (Wyandanch…), 30th Anniversary Boston, 30th Anniversary LI, 30th Anniversary Mexico, Solidarity with people of Huntington/Hempstead (Confronting Weed & Seed), Confronting racism in Farmingville, Anarchist Book Fair. Gorilla gardening, Gorilla Art Projects, Community Gardening, New Zines, etc…

• Delegation: Who’s interested in what? Are there other projects that folks are interested in working on?

Current Tools: (5 minutes)

• Website- How/to: How to use the forums, create content, create accounts.
• Mailing list/Newsletter: LongIslandFNB@googlegroups.com / www.LIFNB.com/newsletter
• Text System/ Hotline Number: Hotline- 631.223.4370/ Text System- Text LIFNB to 41411 to receive updates via text.