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Boston Task Force Meeting
Gyms
Beacon Hill Athletic turned us down
Healthworks is a go!
We've learned that when approaching gyms, it's helpful to go to the charitable director first.
The subject matter is heavy but even so, it's important that we press on and continue to try and open people's eyes to this problem.
Launch date
The launch date of ToT will be pushed back to April 2nd for a few reasons:
1. we can coincide with an event that day with "Free the Slaves" at Harvard which will have media coverage and many other like-minded groups
2. People are in a much better mood in the Spring and even looking for a reason to take a walk
3. People might be more giving with their money, given that we're that much farther away from the post-holiday season bills.
4. having that much more time to get the word out, now that we're in motion would be helpful
General
Kim will be handeling the accounting for ToT, through the Possibilites Factory
Paul to work on the sign up feature of our website
The Long Island Task Force is having a fundraising Gala for Love146 on April 15th
T-shirts
these will only take a week to order
we are going to hold off on ordering them until we see what kind of a need we have, based on sign-ups
Paul to order T-shirts for all BTF Leads
We can wear our T-shirts whenever we speak about Love146
everyone to bring $25 to next meeting to get their T-shirt
Vineyard
Feb 15th, we will man a table in the lobby at the Cambridge and Boston sites
Cambridge post 9:30 Brian and Kim
Cambridge post 11:30 Emily and Jaime
Boston post 10:30 Sarah
All materials for this will be posted on google groups
Paul will check with Vineyard to see if we can speak at the women's conference and/or the men's breakfast
Spreading the word-speaking gigs
So the best thing we can do to help this event and to make next year's event is a success is to spread the word about this problem, not just Tread on Trafficking of course but the problem in general
At our next meeting, Carrie and possibly Arwyn will be doing a presentation on how to speak about this topic
Before next meeting we would like to have everyone come with two ideas of places or venues where we could speak
Aspen and Sarah already have a chance to speak at BU on Feb 20th
Carrie may have an opportunity to speak at a church in Vermont
Emily may have one at Tufts and Jenn/Emily may be doing a presentation where they work
I would like everyone to send me details whenever they have a speaking gig
Officers
Our group is really starting to solidfy as well as the tasks involved
Today we assigned titles/tasks to everyone that was here and Brian also updated Facebook and blogs and google groups to update access to everyone who was here
The new postions go like this:
Jaime point person-I will keep track of what everyone else is doing, so that we don't double our efforts anywhere and to avoid confusion, etc., send out reminders and track meetings
Kim community outreach/accounting-tracking opportunities to speak, handling gyms and so on, also handling numbers
Aspen community outreach-see above
Paul Vineyard Liason/tech-checking with the Vineyard on opportunities there and also getting the website sign up going
Pascha Vineyard Liason/'idea factory'-see above and also supplying ideas, feedback and contacts
Brian Tech support-making sure our blog, website, goolge group and facebook are working correctly, also trying to keep Jaime from poking herself in the eye
Sarah Online content-tracking the blog/website and facebook(ToT and BTF), updating what is written there and making sure that we are represented on the main Love146 FB(facebook) group
Jenn media- writing press releases, looking into ways of getting us represented in press, on TV, radio and online
Emily media/season of light- see above and also season of light blogger
Carrie Operations-tracking materials, master-mind behind our sign up process, tracking treaders (?) and keeping us in line.
This is general right now but many of these positions will change as we go, not the people but the tasks as we learn what needs to be done.
General
Next meeting! March 1st Sunday 2-5 at Paul and Pascha's
We might be able to join forces with Barbara Anderson to speak, Brian has invited her
