NEXT MEETING ALERT – SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2008, 10AM
Place still being worked out. Will send details ASAP. We will be discussing the ongoing progress of Philly ONE and how you can get involved. Bring other people concerned about global poverty with you. Format of the meeting will be a bit different. If too many people have an issue with this date, then we will change it. EMAIL BACK IMMEDIATELY if you know NOW that you can’t make it.
NEW MEETING FORMAT
We recognize how easy it is to get distracted when things are moving along fast and easy, so keep it fresh in our minds why we are all involved, the meetings will be structured a bit different - but still kept at an hour! The beginning of the meeting will be a 5 minute briefing on an issue that ONE concentrates on. Each meeting will be a different issue. Members will get handouts of that issue. Then the regular meeting will commence, followed by a 15 – 20 minute workshop or discussion about different tools we can use or things we can do in our non-group time to keep on track. For example, letter-writing, calling politicians, emailing, local farming, sign making, tabling, etc. If you have an idea of a workshop you’d like to do, let us know at one.philadelphia@gmail.com.
CONGRESSIONAL MEETINGS – CASEY, MAY 13TH!!
Last meeting, we collected names of those interested in doing local visits with the offices of Senators Specter and Casey to convey to them that their constituents care about issues of global poverty, AIDS, etc. We are happy to report that the meeting with Casey has been set up by Bernie. That meeting will take place on May 13 th at his office, 2000 Market Street. It will take place between 12 – 1230 pm. There will be a briefing call on this before the meeting. Please contact Bernie immediately at nodrybones@hotmail.com to be involved. Specter info will be out as soon as the meeting is set up. Great job setting that up Bernie!
ONE VOTE ‘08
Thank you to everyone who did visibility events at the recent PA primary battle that happened this past April. If anyone has pictures, please do send them to one.philadelphia@gmail.com. November is still a few months away, which means there maybe more visibility opportunities in our area. As dates come in to the ONE office, Kim Smith (ONE staff) posts them on the ONE Philly Yahoo site with some instructions and guidance. We will do our best to post them up at www.onephilly.wordpress.com, but the appearances will be happening so often, we may not have a chance to, so please check the Yahoo site and if you see one that isn’t up there, let us know at one.philadelphia@gmail.com and we’ll add it!
CARE NATIONAL CONFERENCE – JUNE 18 – 19, 2008 – Washington, DC
CARE International is one of the founding organizations of the ONE Campaign. Every June, CARE holds a national conference in Washington, DC that brings advocates from around the world together to educate and use their voice to communicate to the legislators that global poverty is a priority to USAmericans. The conference is June 18th and 19th and the second day gives a unique opportunity for you to “take the Hill” and go speak to your elected officials about global poverty. Author Jeffrey Sachs is one of the guest speakers. Some of you may know him for his astounding book, “The End of Poverty.” CARE is also always looking for local volunteers to advocate on empowering women to end global poverty. If you have any questions about the conference or CARE, please direct them to Mary Day Kent (mdkent@care.org), Katie (kholscher@yahoo.com) or Deesha ( dyer95@hotmail.com). About the conference: https://my.care.org/care/events/2008conference/details.tcl. About CARE: www.care.org
ONE PHILLY MURAL PROPOSAL – YOUR IDEAS WANTED!
After the ONE Philadelphia meeting on April 12, 2008, members of the Mural committee met. This included Kaki, Sarah, Bernie, Robert and Charla. Please see below, “MURAL COMMITTEE NOTES – 4/12/08″ for a summary. To be involved or if you have questions, email one.philadelphia@gmail.com.
VOLUNTEERING / OUTREACH
Thank you Charla, Sean and Nicole, who volunteered at the Whosoever Gospel Mission on April 26th. Whosever Gospel Mission helps homeless men and has other neighborhood programs to help the needy in the community. Thank you to Charla for organizing this. If anyone has any volunteer opportunities that ONE Philly can help out with, please email us at one.philadelphia@gmail.com. This is a chance for ONE Philly to do some work at home while recruiting more volunteers for ONE and our various organizations. Also, CONGRATULATIONS to Charla, who has been selected as a Hunger Justice Leader with Bread For The World. www.bread.org.
WHAT ARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS? WHAT ORGANIZATIONS DO YOU REPRESENT?
As you may or may not know, ONE Philly is comprised of many organizations that united together to fight global poverty. Well, we here at ONE Philly want you to let us know about your organization, its mission, its happenings and all of that – so reach out so we can help promote your organization as well and maybe recruit some volunteers for you! Also, do you paint, sing, draw, act, dance? Let us know if you can use any of those special talents to raise awareness about ONE. Everyone brings something to the table, even if it is just a voice.
DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, AN IDEA, ANYTHING TO HELP ONE PHILLY?
Well, then we’d love to hear from you. The blog is the central place for ONE Philly and if you read something, have news to share about an event, statistic, study, book, newspaper article, overseas experience; your talent and how you want to use it to help ONE Philly bring awareness to global poverty, then reach out for sure! The blog is open for anyone to post anything pertaining to ONE Philly, and that includes events and such from your separate organizations that are taking charge of restoring humanity worldwide. Reach out to us at one.philadelphia@gmail.com and we will post up your announcement or anything you wish to share with the group.
TABLING EVENT – JUNE 18, 2008
ONE Philly and CARE will have a table at the 2008 Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival, which takes place from June 18 – 19. The vending time is from 7pm – 11pm and it will be at the Rotunda at 40th and Walnut. Nicole and Jen will be volunteering at the table. More details about festival here: http://www.montazhpac.org/main
ONE at LOCAL COLLEGES/HIGH SCHOOLS
We are really reaching out and trying hard to connect with ONE chapters at local colleges. Charla is handling this. If you know of a ONE chapter or are the lead of a ONE chapter at ANY local college/high school or university, please reach out to Charla at one.philadelphia@gmail.com . If you’d like to start one…then reach out as well.
BOOK CLUB
Do you like reading? Do you enjoy sharing books concerning worldly issues with others? Then, the ONE Philly Book Club is for you. A new avenue of ONE Philly, the book club will meet before or after meetings and discuss and recommend books that are in line or pertain to the elements of ONE. Please contact Nick if you are interested – ndarecca@temple.edu.
GOODBYE TO TYLER BOND, LOCAL ONE STAFF
Some of you got to meet Tyler Bond, who was a ONE Vote 08 field organizer for a short time. Tyler also came to the April 12th ONE Philly meeting. He is no longer working with ONE and wishes everyone luck in the future.
MINUTES FROM ONE PHILLY MEETING, APRIL 12, 2008 AT THE BELLEVUE FOOD COURT.
Thank you to everyone that came. We had double our number from last month – with 16 people showing up including the new regional coordinator for CARE, Mary Dent.
Here is a list of things talked about. OLD indicates that it is carried over and was talked about again at this meeting and NEW means this was a fresh topic brought to the meeting:
§ Increasing ONE presence in Philadelphia via tabling events at colleges, festivals, fairs, First Fridays in the city, cafés, etc. If anyone has info on happenings where ONE can put out a table to increase awareness and recruit volunteers, we are asking them to email – one.philadelphia@gmail.com and from there they will be guided on how to proceed – OLD
§ Sarah mentioned a concert that ONE may be able to do tabling at. She is checking up and advising. Concert is in June. – OLD
§ Nick brought up a ONE Philly once a month advocacy letter highlighting issues in the news, update on legislation, etc. He also gave a briefing on letter writing and emailing – OLD/NEW
§ Nick started a phone chain for those interested in calling each other about last minute visibility, emails, etc. To be on the phone list, please contact Nick at ndarecca@temple.edu – NEW
§ Nick mentioned ONE website as a wonderful place of information on current and ongoing bills, etc. that ONE is concentrating on – www.one.org. It is called ‘Issues Through Action’. – NEW
§ Megan brought up doing a workshop on local farming and how that can help in the fight against poverty. Possibly a workshop for June or August meeting. – NEW
§ Megan and Nicole working on tri-fold for tabling events. - NEW
§ Volunteering at Philabundance in May or June is very possible. Philabundance feeds the hungry in Philadelphia. Deesha getting back to group about that. – OLD
§ Jen is going to look into volunteer opportunities with the Red Cross – NEW
§ Kaki brought up the Germantown Poetry Festival as a place that might be appropriate for ONE to hand out literature and information – NEW
§ Charla mentioned the ONE My Space with volunteer guidelines and issues. We want to have this available at next meeting for handout – NEW
§ We need places to meet. Deesha checking on library. – OLD/NEW
§ Pictures from meeting here: http://picasaweb.google.com/ONE.Philadelphia/ONEMeeting41208
MURAL MEETING NOTES
Kaki, Bernie, Charla, Sarah and Robert met and among the topics that came up were possible fundraising, approval/comments from the ONE Campaign head office, permanent vs. portable, location possibilities, artists, color vs. black and white, publicity and advertising around mural, correct forms, and supplies. For full meeting notes, please contact one.philadelphia@gmail.com and they will be e-mailed to you. Also hit up that email if you are interested in being on the Mural Committee.
REFERENCES – ONE PHILLY
ONE official site – www.one.org
Email – one.philadelphia@gmail.com
Blog – www.onephilly.wordpress.com
Yahoo Group – This is the spot where ONE staff posts up opportunities and such that may not be available to see elsewhere, so please check it when you can. We will try to put it on the blog as well, but sometimes time doesn’t allow that. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PhilaONE/
Facebook – You have to be on Facebook to see it: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2364737857&ref=mf
