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Greetings CFGN
members,
We had a fun
meeting last week at Focuscorp- thank you to everyone who attended! Catherine
Murray ended up with a pile of great garden designs to show funders when asking
for $ to expend their sensory therapy garden. I’ve attached the minutes
to this email, and request your response to the information below.
The Steering
Committee wants to thank everyone for participating in the survey mailed out
last month. We learned a lot about how you want to participate in this network,
what you need from the network, and what you want to contribute to the network.
We drafted several goals for the group based on the results from the survey
(listed below). At our meeting last Monday we brainstormed objectives to go
with these goals. Please look at the goals
and objectives for this year and next (below), and let me know what you think! Does this list accurately represent
what CFGN is to you? Also, please suggest changes or additions. You can
email me directly at dburgardt@...
or call me at (608) 246-4730 x238.
Thank you!
Dawn
Our goals:
- Support community learning
opportunities through conferences and trainings.
- Promote resources exchange and
networking.
- Increase community presence and
grow our membership.
- Plan for the future of CFGN
(financial and organizational sustainability).
- Think like a group, work
together, and continue to define our group identity.
This season objectives:
- Coordinate a conference focused
on kids gardening (fall or winter).
- Discuss meeting format: # per
year, including training/networking/picnics, etc.
- Define membership: benefits for
members, varying levels of membership, and encourage members to Plant,
Grow and Share what we know.
- Develop CFGN website.
- Create an outreach plan (discuss
recruiting new members vs. focus on satisfying needs of current members,
and use of events/mailing campaign for recruitment).
- Develop group infrastructure
(goals and objectives, Steering Committee role, etc.)
- Create a 2006 funding plan for
staff and projects ($ needed and action timeline).
Next season objectives:
- Coordinate one conference each
year, with rotating topics (special needs, youth, and senior/low-income
gardens).
- Develop a group project that
combines multiple sectors and builds the network (form an action team).
- Set schedule for events in
January (meetings, trainings, conference, etc) including topics, dates,
and who will contribute.
- Create a continued outreach
plan for how to grow the organization. (Who are we targeting?)
- Create a 2007 funding plan for
staff and projects ($ needs and action timeline).
- Continue building
relationships, being resourceful, and being a CFGN presence in the
community!
- Review mission, vision, and
goals annually to remind us of our own guiding principles.
Dawn Burgardt
Community Action
Coalition
(608) 246-4730
x238
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