Urban Greens Food Co-op
Membership Committee

Meeting Date: January 31, 2010
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Email us for location.

Present:

1. Welcome & Introductions

2. Goals for Meeting
-Review committee progress
-Identify tasks and next steps

3. Committee Reports

* Media Campaign (Craig, Michelle and Jean) - responsible for negotiating advertisements, getting copy to press, timing ads to anticipate relevant events, communicating with publications for stories, etc.
* Kickoff & Closing Celebration (Michelle, Ben, Becky, Deb) - planning and executing both events. NEED TO DISCUSS AS LARGE GROUP.
* Building Interested Parties (Corey, Nick, Ben) - identifying ever new groups of individuals and businesses to add to our master list.
* Community Presentations (Deb, Craig) - Planning and executing house parties, business and community organization presentations.
* Networking (Hillary, Deb) - Planning, attending and executing networking events.
* Old Fashioned Marketing (Michelle, Craig, Jean) - Organizing direct marketing approaches.

4. Revisit Timeline & Establish Next Steps

5. Next Meeting: _____________________________

We will be launching a full-scale member drive from March to the end of May. Be on the lookout for fun events and other ways to support your local food co-op.

Let us know how you want to help us grow.

How many of you want to see Urban Greens open a store in 2010? As you edit your list of New Year's resolutions tonight, think about what kind of commitment you'd like to make to see a food co-op in your neighborhood.

My name is Deb Rosenberg and I'm chairing the Urban Greens membership committee for the next year. If you received the minutes from the annual meeting, you will already be aware that we need to make a large effort to expand our membership if we want to make this co-op materialize. I think we can all agree that to this point, our efforts at major recruitment have been rather lackluster. But as we have moved forward in our financial planning and received guidance from mentor co-ops it has become ever clearer that the key to our progress will be a strong army of members who are vested in the co-op, both theoretically and financially.

If you want to be a part of this grassroots, community effort to bring Providence a food co-op, please join us for our next Membership Committee meeting on Januray 10th, 2010 from 4-5:30pm @ the WBNA.

Happy New Year! May all your dreams come true - especially those involving start-up co-ops. :o)

For more information, send us an email!