[fundraising] Strategic Planning Working Group Invitation!

[Merelice]

Greetings,

What follows is a message written by Eli Beckerman about the GRP's
goal of developing a strategic plan for 2007-2009. Please give it your
attention and plan to address it at the fundraising committee meeting.
Since Saturday's meeting is for Eastern Mass., committee members from
Western Mass. are asked to indicate by email any interest in becoming
the committee's representative to the Strategic Plan Working Group. If
possible, the committee should make that choice on Saturday.

Thanks much,
Merelice


The Green-Rainbow Party has begun a strategic planning process for
2007-2009, based on a proposal adopted by the State Committee at its
January 21 meeting, giving charge to a Strategic Plan Working Group (SPWG) to:

"develop a strategic action plan for 2007-2009 that will enable us to
focus our limited resources on projects and efforts that will increase
our active membership and proactively position the party to be a
recognizable and essential force in the Massachusetts movements for
social and economic justice, sustainability, democracy, and peace."

The strategic plan will help focus the activities of the party to
ensure its growth and vitality over the next two years. It will
identify the key issues that we will address, the constituencies we
will focus upon, and the techniques we will use for outreach.

GRP MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN PLAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE WAYS
LISTED BELOW.

1. BECOME A MEMBER OF THE SPWG

The SPWG will be made up of representatives of the Abolish Poverty,
Platform, Membership and Diversity, Fundraising, Communications, and
Candidate Development & Legal Committees.  Every active GRP local
chapter or caucus may also have one representative each. The GRP
co-chairs will appoint up to six additional members who express
interest and are considered by the co-chairs to be most valuable to
helping the SPWG
complete its work and in adding diversity to the group.

The SPWG will analyze strategy options and write the plan.   Over the
next four months, SPWG members will be expected to devote about 3 or 4
hours per week to working-group activities such as attending regular
meetings, reading suggestions submitted by Party members, helping
with research into the issues, calling in to SPWG teleconferences,
organizing a GRP strategic planning session, helping write or revise
the plan, and organizing the plan's roll-out at the 2007 State Convention.

If you would like to represent a local chapter, caucus, or one of the
6 GRP working committees listed above, please try to secure the
group's appointment by the end of February, and notify the party
co-chairs of your status, <cochairs at green-rainbow.org>.

To apply for one of the 6 open positions, send your name, email
address, and telephone number to party co-chairs: Luc Shuster and
Wendy Van Horne, <cochairs at green-rainbow.org>.  Please include a brief
description of yourself including any background explaining how you
could contribute to writing a good strategic plan and any way in which
you would add to the diversity of the group.  Applications must be
received by February 26 to be considered.

We expect the first SPWG meeting to be in early March.

2. ATTEND COMMENT SESSIONS

The second way to participate is to attend one of the comment
sessions. An extended strategy session will be held at a meeting to
be held in March.  Subsequent, shorter comment sessions will be held
as part of SPWG meeting agendas. The date and location of such
meetings will be posted on the GRP website. If you would prefer to
receive a special meeting invitation by email or phone, send your name
and email address or phone number to <elibeck at gmail.com>.

3. SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS

The third way to participate is to submit written comments or
suggestions to the SPWG. Although comments can be in any form, the
SPWG expects to pose certain questions to solicit more focused input.
Comments can be sent to <elibeck at gmail.com>. If you wish to be
notified when comments are requested to particular questions, send
your name and email address to this address. If you wish to submit
comments by regular mail, send them to Strategic Plan Working Group,
c/o John Andrews, 22 Kendall Road, Lexington, MA 02421.

Visit http://green-rainbow.org/Committees/Strategic_Planning
for more info, or contact Eli Beckerman at 617-821-1453 or  <elibeck at gmail.com>.

Thank you for giving this your consideration.