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Planning Committee

Hismen Hinnu
January 5, 2004
Minutes

Announcements:

  • SA Unity out
  • 23rd Avenue clean-up on Saturday
  • EBALDC gallery opening tonight
  • Family Strengthening Conference in Oakland in March. Fred will email information
  • SF Foundation initiative on civic/cultural participation--in Koshland neighborhood. Worth looking into. Jennie will follow-up
  • JP leaving
  • Outcomes--will be sharing with work groups

LSA Coordination Transition

  • Transition planning--Randy, JP, Deb
  • Facilitation vs. chairing meeting--need protocol for meeting management
  • Back-office administration
  • Governance--what is role of planning committee?
  • Planning committee [ tracks results
  • Resident engagement [ planning committee
  • Who and where does this piece get housed?
  • Administrative structure for the collaborative vs. the network--need to think through need to get residents into process

2004 Capacity Building Opportunity

  • Resident Leadership & Facilitation
  • Facilitation, running meetings, English/Spanish training. Two full days or two evenings and weekend day. Flexible scheduling. Work with EBAYC
  • Results-Based Accountability
  • Mark Friedman training. Have planning committee meet with Mark for half or one day. If we like it, could do a train-the-trainers 2-3 day workshop. Great tools for CBOS

Work Plans

  • Have received five work plans
  • Still in draft form
  • Need to fill out budgets
  • Need to take them back to work groups
  • Deb will circulate to rest of planning committee

2004 Grant & Technical Assistance Priorities

  • Fred handed out grant & technical assistance priorities
  • Need to start work on early childhood outcomes
  • Fred reviewed draft of priorities
  • Need a better grasp on how grants translate into results
  • Need another column on leveraging other sources of funding
  • Need a more complete picture of everything that’s happening whether they receive Casey money or not
  • Can planning committee give feedback/input and influence allocation decisions
  • In future would like planning committee to make the first round of funding recommendations. Would like a partnership between Casey and collaborative
  • Doesn’t want money discussion to be divisive
  • Keep in forefront what we want to happen in neighborhood, not who gets money
  • With limited amount of money, impossible to rationalize ongoing support for one or two projects. Need to see money as catalytic
  • How to use money for collective goals that produce common good

Next Steps:

  • Fred will have follow-up conversations with individuals
  • Need an estimation of levels of investments needed to do things at the desired scale