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Please note that this meeting has not been scheduled. We will send out an invitation in the next couple of weeks. If you have questions please contact Bella Celnik.
In response to the high interest and participation generated by our last Bay Area Learning Circle: A Conversation on Leadership and Race, we have decided to have a follow-up meeting to continue to explore ideas and questions relevant to the topic.
Several participants expressed interest in helping plan the meeting - here is the complete list:
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When: Friday July 16, 2010 2:00 to 5:00 PM
Where: 1203 Preservation Park Way, Suite 200
Present: Deborah Meehan, Susan Mooney and Manish Vaidya
We agreed that we would like to hire facilitators so that the design team can all participate fully. We also recognized the value of having facilitators from recognized social justice organizations like Center for Movement Strategy and using a place that racial justice folks and social justice folks are used to meeting to help manage the power dynamics of meeting at a foundation.
Next Steps:
Susan will draft up a very short proposal and budget to cover the costs of a half day meeting, hiring facilitators, and food/space before leaving town in a week.
Manish will shop the proposal around to a few social justice funders to see if he can get support for this.
Deborah will approach some funders if Manish is not successful.
Deborah and Bella will work on space/dates after getting word back from Manish about potential locations.
Everyone will start talking to folks that they would like to have attend.
When? We are targeting the 3rd or 4th week of September to have the meeting occur.
We recommend placing a disclaimer at the top of the page when you are getting ready to edit it, i.e. "In Use". You can then save the page immediately - this will alert all other users that the page is being edited. When you are done editing, please remove the disclaimer and save your edits. This will prevent potential conflicts with multiple edits happening at the same time.
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Please note that this meeting has not been scheduled. We will send out an invitation in the next couple of weeks. If you have questions please contact Bella Celnik.
In response to the high interest and participation generated by our last Bay Area Learning Circle: A Conversation on Leadership and Race, we have decided to have a follow-up meeting to continue to explore ideas and questions relevant to the topic.
Several participants expressed interest in helping plan the meeting - here is the complete list:
- Susan Mooney, Chinese for Affirmative Action
- Odin Zackman, DigIn
- Raj Neogy
- Mutima Imani
- Manish Vaidya, GIFT: Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training
- Lauren Padilla, The California Endowment
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Bay Area LLC "A Conversation on Leadership and Race, Part II" Planning Team Meeting
When: Friday July 16, 2010 2:00 to 5:00 PM
Where: 1203 Preservation Park Way, Suite 200
Present: Deborah Meehan, Susan Mooney and Manish Vaidya
Agenda
- Goals for the space
- Who the space is for
- Agenda/Facilitator/Design
- Mobilization
- Next Steps
- Timeline
Goals
- Explore value of creating an inter-generational and multi-racial space where those with a structural racism framework in the leadership development and racial justice fields can intersect
- Create foundation for folks to show up and participate authentically and fully/building trust, risk-taking
- Foster self-organizing initiative
- Building an ongoing space and connection to support praxis - theories, tools, and practical learning to support racial justice work and action
Radical Ground Rules
- Challenge ourselves and each other in this racial justice work
- Checking entitlement of white people speaking
- Making power transparent
- Identifying with and commitment to a racial justice framework
- In the design, we want to make our assumption and ways of working more connected to structural racism
We agreed that we would like to hire facilitators so that the design team can all participate fully. We also recognized the value of having facilitators from recognized social justice organizations like Center for Movement Strategy and using a place that racial justice folks and social justice folks are used to meeting to help manage the power dynamics of meeting at a foundation.
Next Steps:
Susan will draft up a very short proposal and budget to cover the costs of a half day meeting, hiring facilitators, and food/space before leaving town in a week.
Manish will shop the proposal around to a few social justice funders to see if he can get support for this.
Deborah will approach some funders if Manish is not successful.
Deborah and Bella will work on space/dates after getting word back from Manish about potential locations.
Everyone will start talking to folks that they would like to have attend.
When? We are targeting the 3rd or 4th week of September to have the meeting occur.
