SESSION TOPIC: We have $750 to open more space in the USA--How?
Host: DougGermann
Scribe/note taker: DougGermann
Participants: SheilaIsakson, LindaXimenes, DianaLarsen, BarbaraEmanuel?, MistyDunn, SusanKHughes, CarolRodriguez
Discussion Highlights:
How
- Use money for making facilitators available
- Pay travel costs
- ** Good articles for business magazines--shop them around
- Seek to be self-perpetuating
- Collaborate on case studies
- Poll OSlist--places for articles, especially to see if people have places which will always take their articles
- Buy User's Guide and distribute and share
- ** Do a summary book--old User's Guide? Michael Herman's site?
- ** Offer summary book through OSI-USA--nominal, PDF, POD--like AI "thin book"
- Scholarships
- Getting non profits to talk together
- Long view--youth
- Bank the $750 and earn interest
- **Buy chapters of Change Handbook (Peggy Holman) from Berrett-Kohler
- **Small change for micro loans--go to site--I'll give or loan $25 to put in bank--leverages the money many times
- **Version in Spanish, Farsi, Russian, Viet Namese, Chinese, Ukraine, French, Italian--like appliance manuals
- Do a training with non profits--"The leadership collaborative"--paid by Annie E. Casey Foundation--San Antonio did--Linda and Carol are participants
- Technical Assistance Coordinators--Resource
Who
- Wiki, agile software people--innovative software development industries
- ** Non-profits--board members spread to other groups virally
- Those who want to transform their organizations--like La Leche, Community Weaver
- Leadership seminars in schools--how create service project--associated student body--grade school kids
- Church communities--youth groups
- Parents
- Small business--do OS with customers and suppliers
- **GFSC--offer booklets to them to pass out (and learn themselves)
- Poverty in back yard--city park--homeless
- Home schoolers and un-home schoolers
- Health organizations--by disease
- People you know in other organizations
- Training boards
- Within parishes--under the radar
- Girl Scouts--grass roots to top and back down--also YWCA
- Find groups who are ready--using AI, expanded coffee breaks
- Real Estate organizations
- People who challenge traditional ways
- Non profit resouce centers--state, local
- People who teach communication skills
Professional Hows
- If pro bono, I get to choose what to do as an exchange of value
--limit to one per month or three per year
Recommendations:
Powerful quotes:
- SheilaIsakson: "People have to learn to be in a different way."
- DianaLarsen: "Foster a certain level of disatisfaction with business as usual."
Unanswered questions: