April 29 Joint Outreach Task Force notes

INTRODUCTIONS
Sarah (DC): collectively understand issues in order to reach out to
diverse audiences
Sammie (WA): been working with Islamic communities
Diane (IA): own group= faith-based, pilot site for Div Task Force.
Warning for own efforts: maintain humility.
Misty (GA): GREAT re: humility and diversity, learning from Paul Farmer
re: learning from people. Awesome to be holistic.
Lisa (IN): from Faith in Action perspective, comprehensive diversity
focus touches on all efforts, leverage for grant funding or joint
training by being holistic.
Jos (IA): echo Lisa re: comprehensive approach, areas of synergy.
Monica (NC): as pilot reaching out to diverse ethnic & socio-economic
communities, area has lots of diversity and group wanted bigger focus
than narrow focus on ethnic diversity. Share strategies, training,
address misunderstandings. Meredith: happy to all come together, see
need to still gather in subgroupS (ex.
Michael (DC): easier to do outreach if learning from each other, happy
to add.
Ben (DC): seminary grad, stronger when come together and understand
perspectives, esp when people in more than 1 community.
Crickett (DC): young staff who came to RES through Methodist pgm, come
from diff backgrounds & great to know where others come from.

RECAP and FEEDBACK ON LAST CALL re: JOINT OUTREACH EFFORTS
Diane update re: board update: he's working on a laser talk, will follow
up.
(MD: board nomination
New name for the group! - Diane: Outreach Task Force
- (Monica: ... For Diverse Communities)
- Sarah: Diversity Outreach Task Force
- Misty: Holistic Communities (draw on Anthro studies), Holistic
Diversity Task Force
- Sammie: Diversity Joint
- Lisa: use Diversity Task Force to describe our larger efforts?
- Crickett: Joint Outreach Task Force
** Joint Outreach Task Force **

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (see
http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=3838&printFriendly=1 for
the agenda)

Student Programming: Crickett
- Youth Task Force has sugg student training incorp at Intl Conf
- Sat am + Wed training
- piloting partnership with Bonner Foundation plus existing RES student
activists
- look for email by end of the week
- 75% scholarshiped

Diversity training at Leadership Day: Michael (see his 6/20 email re:
tentative agenda)
- Panel: engaging community voices
- 3 breakouts: Why does diversity matter? What does it mean to be an
ally? How take back home to RES group?
- then Close
- please send Michael suggestions
- Misty: make sure lots of time for sharing, end of the day hear about
what other small groups discuss
- Sarah: Lorna has offered to facilitate Dialogue process

Faith in Action (Breakfast and June 24 Events): Jos
- Monday am breakfast in hotel, asking partners to come and build
collaboration
- urging faith partners to be sponsors (2 so far: United Methodist
Church and Islamic Relief)
- June 24 Prayer Vigil on Health Reform, 4-8 pm @ Freedom Plaza

Joint Outreach Task Force Table at Exhibit Fair
- will need volunteers (Sammie)
- contact MD if you have suggestions for materials or willing to help
staff

Skills workshop: use to present findings of the pilot project
(materials, etc) & do training
- Diane: being a pilot city: lots of work, cathartic to share

NEXT CALLS: Pre-IC check-in: Wed 5/20 @ 7 ET.