Here are all the details:
http://e-democracy.org/inclusion
It is just starting.
About half of it is focused on St. Paul neighbors forums, a quarter on
lesson sharing, and a quarter on tech innovation.
Minneapolis will benefit from our generic "Be Neighbors" campaign:
http://beneighbors.org
Our volunteer forum managers who now serve 7,000 forum members across just
Minneapolis (double counting those on more than one forum) will get better
training, outreach materials, etc.
The whole network will benefit from some improved tech (we already rolled
out some design tweaks on the website).
However, later in the year we are interested in working with others to
secure inclusive outreach funds to in particular work -with- lower income,
highly diverse neighborhoods.
Real inclusion takes real resources.
It should be noted that in some of our neighborhoods we now have 20% of
households. In Standish Ericsson we are approaching 1,000 members.
Linden Hills is now open marking our first open forum west of 35W. Near
North/Heritage Park remains in recruitment mode with Kingfield.
Whittier and Hale Page Diamond Lake just had new volunteers step forward
and forum participant here Mike Jones is working to gather feedback from
Uptown area neighborhood association on a pan-Uptown forum. (We like it
when neighborhood associations embrace the idea and help with outreach.)
With almost all of our forums in Minneapolis always all-volunteer, we'd
love to have more volunteers in new neighborhoods step forward to join the
neighbor connecting movement!
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.org
Steven Clift
<email obscured> - +1 612 234 7072
http://stevenclift.com - @democracy
http://e-democracy.org - @edemo