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MONTEBELLO OIL
Staff Meeting on
Monday, December 11, 2006
1. The teams for “Montebello Oil”:
team 1, learn and prioritize needs of Montebello, invite proposals, three
members; this involves making brief presentations and asking people
questions, either in person or by telephone;
team 4, manage and seek feedback about project, three members; the work
parallels that of team 4 for the newsletter;
team 6, print and distribute Oil, four members; this team researches how
much to print, designs and oversees printing, and then keeps careful track
of where the money is sent;
team 7, enlist businesspeople to use and / or sponsor Oil, twelve members;
this team makes brief presentations in person, in order to persuade
businesspeople to use Oil and / or to help pay for printing; need seven
more; show friends the information at the Web site; invite them to join;
team 8, organize and manage discussions and votes for Oil grants, four
members; this team contacts youth and adults, asking them to look at and
talk about proposals for using Oil; the team then asks youth and adults to
vote on which proposals should receive Oil; need three more; show friends
the information at the Web site; invite them to join;
team 10, Web site and publicity, two members; this team works with team 10
for the newsletter in uploading material to mymontebello.com; also, this
team writes news releases about Oil, for the newsletter and other media;
2. Team meetings. First, choose team leaders. Use nutrition to hold team
meetings. Team leaders: come prepared to make assignments, set deadlines,
check on progress. Do you want the local-currency teacher to come? Everyone
on every team should have an activity on which to work all the time. Goal:
have one team meeting this week after the local-currency teacher send your
team instructions Tuesday morning for an activity during vacation. (Why an
activity during vacation?)
4. Check your e-mail at least twice daily. If you do not have e-mail at
home, check at school twice daily. While few things in life are perfect,
strive to be a perfectionist. Pay attention to details, as a music conductor
or a choreographer does. Goal: get a school e-mail account and let the
teacher know.
5. Our Web site’s address is www.mymontebello.com. Information is there for
your team. In January, tell me if you wish to be named on the Web site.
6. Are we ready for the big prize? From the Web site talking about the big
prize:
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is seeking proposals for
innovative ways to shape the future of news and community.
In a democracy that is organized by geography, the fate of every village,
town, suburb and metropolis depends on citizens being able to get the news
they need to run their lives and their governments. The Knight Brothers 21st
Century News Challenge hopes to recognize transformative ideas, pilot
projects, leadership initiatives and investment opportunities that will help
improve the flow of journalism, information and news in the public interest.
We're looking for:
• New ways to understand news and act on it, including new ways to collect,
prepare and distribute information, news and journalism that reveals
hard-to-know facts, identifies common problems, clarifies community issues
and points out practical courses of action.
• New ways for people to communicate interactively to better understand one
another, to generate real passion in solving local problems and to share the
know-how they need to improve their communities;
• New ways for people to use information, news and journalism to imagine
their collective possibilities as communities, and to set and reach common
community goals.
We want proposals that increase the clarity, not the cacophony. We’re
looking for ways to increase a community’s capacity to both understand
what’s wrong and to fix it.
The deadline for submitting a Letter of Inquiry is December 31st.
7. We will be having a staff meeting the day school resumes, Monday, January
8. Every team is to give a brief report.
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