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DON'T GET BORED WITH THE BOARD
I hope this update finds you in good spirits. If not, the get excited anyway! The Baldwin Project is embarking upon an endeavor which has the means to lift up our entire community and you included. If done properly, do not disbelieve that this initiative will catch national attention and serve as an inspiration for the broader Black community to do the same and that is in believing and investing in ourselves.
During my three years as a financial advisor, I counseled my clients on the importance of diversifying their investments in indexes such as the S&P 500 companies and international currencies such as the Euro and the Japanese Yen. Hence, I was counseling my clients to send their money outside of their communities to businesses they may not even heard of and other nations for a hope for a return on their investments. Thinking of the needs of strengthening the Black Economy and the Black Gay Economy in particular on the local level, would you now consider this wise advice? What if they instead invested that money into themselves and in their communities, supporting to local startup businesses serving the needs and wants of their community? Not only would they directly benefit from that investment, imagine the return on investment? If you can not believe in yourself, why should you believe in anyone else's project or venture? THIS is WHY we're doing what we're doing!
#1: Our board will not be working for free. This project is going to take time, attention, commitment and energy. And to get quality time, attention, commitment, energy and leadership, these things should be paid for. This project deserves this quality. Don't be so altruistic to believe you're going to help your community raise its wealth and help startup businesses get off the ground and you are not going be compensated for your contributions. If you will give good work, you deserve this. There is a way we can go about the design of the Baldwin Project to ensure that you are compensated without burdening the progress toward its mission. We can design the organization in such a way that by paying you, the organization can receive more of your time without interfering with the other things you may need to do for pay to take care of yourself, and thereby it will actually help in achieving its mission.
#2: At the same time of working to get The Baldwin Project off the ground, I am also building a school for nonviolent activism. Right now, both projects are about at the same level of development. So far, we have drew up a design for our board of directors we are in the process now of filling. I present this to you only as a format by which we may set up The Baldwin Project Board of Directors. We may take this and tailor it to whatever our needs will be. We are scheduled to meet next Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 at the Decatur Library from 4p-6p. To begin:
I hope this update finds you in good spirits. If not, the get excited anyway! The Baldwin Project is embarking upon an endeavor which has the means to lift up our entire community and you included. If done properly, do not disbelieve that this initiative will catch national attention and serve as an inspiration for the broader Black community to do the same and that is in believing and investing in ourselves.
During my three years as a financial advisor, I counseled my clients on the importance of diversifying their investments in indexes such as the S&P 500 companies and international currencies such as the Euro and the Japanese Yen. Hence, I was counseling my clients to send their money outside of their communities to businesses they may not even heard of and other nations for a hope for a return on their investments. Thinking of the needs of strengthening the Black Economy and the Black Gay Economy in particular on the local level, would you now consider this wise advice? What if they instead invested that money into themselves and in their communities, supporting to local startup businesses serving the needs and wants of their community? Not only would they directly benefit from that investment, imagine the return on investment? If you can not believe in yourself, why should you believe in anyone else's project or venture? THIS is WHY we're doing what we're doing!
#1: Our board will not be working for free. This project is going to take time, attention, commitment and energy. And to get quality time, attention, commitment, energy and leadership, these things should be paid for. This project deserves this quality. Don't be so altruistic to believe you're going to help your community raise its wealth and help startup businesses get off the ground and you are not going be compensated for your contributions. If you will give good work, you deserve this. There is a way we can go about the design of the Baldwin Project to ensure that you are compensated without burdening the progress toward its mission. We can design the organization in such a way that by paying you, the organization can receive more of your time without interfering with the other things you may need to do for pay to take care of yourself, and thereby it will actually help in achieving its mission.
#2: At the same time of working to get The Baldwin Project off the ground, I am also building a school for nonviolent activism. Right now, both projects are about at the same level of development. So far, we have drew up a design for our board of directors we are in the process now of filling. I present this to you only as a format by which we may set up The Baldwin Project Board of Directors. We may take this and tailor it to whatever our needs will be. We are scheduled to meet next Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 at the Decatur Library from 4p-6p. To begin:
- Through discussion, finalize the design of the board of directors from suggestions you may have from what I am about to present to you. (Please take notes of your input to share)
- If there are any positions you feel you are best prepared for, please prepare a 5 minute oral resume so that we can independently see where you fit best.
- From there, will be begin nominating for positions and voting.
- Whoever gets designated as the Legal Counselor will draw up contracts to be signed at the next meeting to be archived by the Executive Administrator. (If we are keeping these positions.)
- If time allows, the board can begin refining the initial illustration in the presentation to begin preparing our business plan and articles of incorporation. (Or we can save this for the next meeting.) To stay focused on task, I am in favor of taking one step at a time.
Please RSVP to our 1st meeting @: MEETING I and join our private discussion group if you have not already at: The Baldwin Project Facebook
TAKE AWAYS: (These Materials are for your study between now and the next meeting.)
- Initial Illustration Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-tbo33BMb6zQp2c06tUNJTeZ3SfMYzW9Y8jT6ecCTKM/edit?usp=sharing
- Proposed Design for The Board of Directors: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ClD8FottbQHZdR5dOdowzsw0FAKYuKtUF8KDZ4p0Qfo/edit?usp=sharing
- For your Personal/Professional/ Business & Educational Development: "The Science of Getting Rich" written in 1910 (take notes for sharing during our 10-15 minute ice breaker.)
Again, I look forward to working with all of you on this important endeavor!
Yours in love for the cause of brotherhood,
Branden G. Mattox
404-492-4197
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