November 19, 2009
Attendees: Betsey Rubin, Christine Kenny, Dan Bassil, Jenné Myers, Karl Androes, Michael Ban, Paul Nakin, Mary Ellen Schneider, Molly Topper, Sarah Rossi, Jennifer Bricker and Devon Lovell.
Karl Androes led an exercise on groups determining the focus for our common challenges and what ways we might want to collaborate as a group.
We came up with the following as our top focus:
Tangible Resources
Advocacy
Funding
Evaluation
Creative Problem Solving
From our fun sticky notes:
Tangible Resources:
Share physical space
Sharing great resources for curriculum
Streamline Services
Collaborate Association Management Software
Collaborate on Trainings/workshops for students
Collaborate on Back office Expenses
Training materials/ Parents & Tutors
Use the web to tell story and educate the public
Share Contacts
Balance resources with programs to maximize impact
Provide materials to families to support students at home
Advocacy:
Marketing Campaign
Generate awareness
Mutual Referrals and “planting seeds”
Funding:
Enlarge the funding “pie” for literacy
Resources
Building Individual donor base
Evaluation:
Sharing evaluation techniques
Finding the best tools for evaluating reading gains
What serves us vs. what serves funders
Translating literacy into funder-friendly information
Creative Problem Solving:
Work together with our students
Share ideas
Network
Collaborate with peers so our collective efforts help us solve more problems
Knowledge sharing – what works?
Share best practices
Partnerships & Collaborations
Engage all members in storytelling and relationship building
Additional Conversation/Action Points:
Check to Paul Nakin for $50 for website
Send Paul updates to site
Check out www.chicagoliteracy.org
Think about state, federal & city dollars for the bigger pie
Taproot Foundation for Marketing – Mike Ban