"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."
-James A. Baldwin
MEETING #6: DOWN AND WE KEEP PUSHING FORWARD- Thanks, Steven and Kacey!
FOUNDER'S COMMITTEE CURRENT AGENDA:
ORGANIZING BOARD
It looks like we will not be meeting our deadline of rounding out our board by November 21st. So per the suggestion of our candidate for Deputy Director we will forge ahead with who we have and reach into our community to recruit able persons to complete our board from the survey and upcoming community forum.
I have met with Antoine Nolan Carter and he is interested in assisting whoever will be serving as our Treasurer with accounting, but can not at this time accept any leadership responsibilities on our board.
Harold Leffall is excited to help out with provided us a curriculum and organizing our educational program as our Dean. I will need to send him the information regarding that position and if he wishes to move forward, we will schedule a confirmation interview before inviting him into our Founders Committee.
Please view our system for recruiting, by clicking HERE.
Right now our Board looks like:
Executive Director: Branden Mattox (Candidate)
Deputy Director: Cleon T. Day III (Candidate)
Executive Administrator: Kacey Frierson-Nixon (Candidate)
Treasurer: Steven T. Austin (Candidate)
Steven has nominated: Lee Perrimon for Director of Public Relations, Brian Moon for Dean and Jonathan Andry for Director of Public Communications and Aubry for Publisher. Great job, Steven! We will follow up with Steven on this at our next meeting.
CONSTITUTION
So far, Cleon has begin adding his input to the constitution.
Questions for us to begin answering:
What impulse happened to bring us to the resolution to create The Baldwin Project?
After the racist statement hung on the front and back door by Blakes’ management, the Atlanta Black GLBT Community needed to make a stand. “Black Lives Matter” even in the gay community!
Why are we doing this in the first place? What is the need? What is our purpose?
Please view our system for recruiting, by clicking HERE.
Right now our Board looks like:
Executive Director: Branden Mattox (Candidate)
Deputy Director: Cleon T. Day III (Candidate)
Executive Administrator: Kacey Frierson-Nixon (Candidate)
Treasurer: Steven T. Austin (Candidate)
Steven has nominated: Lee Perrimon for Director of Public Relations, Brian Moon for Dean and Jonathan Andry for Director of Public Communications and Aubry for Publisher. Great job, Steven! We will follow up with Steven on this at our next meeting.
CONSTITUTION
So far, Cleon has begin adding his input to the constitution.
Questions for us to begin answering:
What impulse happened to bring us to the resolution to create The Baldwin Project?
After the racist statement hung on the front and back door by Blakes’ management, the Atlanta Black GLBT Community needed to make a stand. “Black Lives Matter” even in the gay community!
Why are we doing this in the first place? What is the need? What is our purpose?
We are doing this to fill a void, to transform a community who has been asking to have a seat at the table for years. It's time for us to make our own table, build our own chairs, then sale them and keep the dollars flowing in our community.
What if we don't do this?
The profound saying comes to mine, “if not us then who and if not now then when”.
What's possible for us when we do pull off a success with The Baldwin Project?
The Black heterosexual community will finally get it and realize it took gays, lesbians, Bi-sexual and Transgender to show them how to create community wealth!
What is that worth?
It could possibly put a dent in homophobia in the Black heterosexual community when they see we are more than an orientation.
How will we know when we've succeeded?
We know when The Baldwin Project has succeeded when the Black heterosexual community comes to us to get a piece of the pie or even duplicate our model.
What is our mission?
Our mission is to create and set into motion wealth building principles within the Black GLBT community.
What is our vision? What is our Manifest Destiny?
I believe our vision is to support Black GLBT in their vision to become successful business owners, entrepreneurs and inventors through providing finance, education and mentorship. Our Manifest Destiny is truly having our real "Black Mecca".
What is our overall strategy for achieving the mission of The Baldwin Project?
Our overall strategy for achieving the mission of The Baldwin Project is maintaining our integrity throughout our vision.
How do we need to be organized to execute these strategies?
First of all, we need to keep an open mind, to listen, defy logic and maintaining our faith in "the process".
To begin drafting this, I will email this to you through the Google Groups so that you can plug in your answers. Once, we're done, I will organize your answer into a draft we can begin revising together.
PREPARING THE FIELD
SURVEY
Intentions:
To stimulate public awareness to the social constructs which pose a challenge to the development and achievement of The Baldwin Project, and begin considering how to make changes to support what The Baldwin Project promises.
To provide an accurate picture of the field in which the The Baldwin Project will be operating to assist The Founder's Committee and Board with smart planning.
Survey link: https://www.quicksurveys.com/s/n9S2Gb
Sample invite script: "Please take part in this survey to help the board of "The Baldwin Project" strategize for the implementation of a group economics, investing and entrepreneurial program among Atlanta's Black LGBT Community. After completing, please share this with at least 3 other members of our community. Our goal is to poll 500, but at least 100. Thank you!"
Marketing Strategy:
1. Use the link above to email to 10 Black LGBT Atlantans in your email list, asking them to share with 3 others.
2. Please directly Facebook IM 10 Black LGBT Atlantans asking them to share with 3 others.
Over the course of 30 days.
3. share the link above in 1-3 discussion groups for with a Black LGBT audience at most daily, at least 3 times a week.
4. Respondent Goal: 550
5. Status toward achieving this goal: was 2% last meeting, now 3% with 18 respondents
FORUM
Intentions:
To publicly stir the conversation surrounding the need for an organization like "The Baldwin Project"
To convict an audience into our first group of supporters and followers to fill any remaining Board Positions or committees not yet filled, to join The Founder's Committee if we have not reached 10 members, and those committed to attending, supporting and promoting our first social.
Primarily, we will be capturing emails from the survey to form the base of our market to invite to this forum.
Deadline for putting on the forum will be (This may need to be adjusted toward the beginning of the year after completing the survey.
We may need to being with an intimate setting of 10 at a home with committed individuals discussing the questions and responses to the survey and setting up next steps from there.
BOOK CLUB
Intentions:
To condition our market for the psychology conducive to enterprise, entrepreneurship, creativity, community leadership and hope.
For our new book selection in December, I will be polling this group to set the best meeting time.
We now a have a facebook discussion group for this. We are hosting it at Black Gay Owned Lounge, Studio No. 7. 393 Marietta St Atlanta GA 30313
NEXT MEETING Saturday, November 7th at the Decatur Library 4p-6p. RSVP HERE
What if we don't do this?
The profound saying comes to mine, “if not us then who and if not now then when”.
What's possible for us when we do pull off a success with The Baldwin Project?
The Black heterosexual community will finally get it and realize it took gays, lesbians, Bi-sexual and Transgender to show them how to create community wealth!
What is that worth?
It could possibly put a dent in homophobia in the Black heterosexual community when they see we are more than an orientation.
How will we know when we've succeeded?
We know when The Baldwin Project has succeeded when the Black heterosexual community comes to us to get a piece of the pie or even duplicate our model.
What is our mission?
Our mission is to create and set into motion wealth building principles within the Black GLBT community.
What is our vision? What is our Manifest Destiny?
I believe our vision is to support Black GLBT in their vision to become successful business owners, entrepreneurs and inventors through providing finance, education and mentorship. Our Manifest Destiny is truly having our real "Black Mecca".
What is our overall strategy for achieving the mission of The Baldwin Project?
Our overall strategy for achieving the mission of The Baldwin Project is maintaining our integrity throughout our vision.
How do we need to be organized to execute these strategies?
First of all, we need to keep an open mind, to listen, defy logic and maintaining our faith in "the process".
To begin drafting this, I will email this to you through the Google Groups so that you can plug in your answers. Once, we're done, I will organize your answer into a draft we can begin revising together.
PREPARING THE FIELD
SURVEY
Intentions:
To stimulate public awareness to the social constructs which pose a challenge to the development and achievement of The Baldwin Project, and begin considering how to make changes to support what The Baldwin Project promises.
To provide an accurate picture of the field in which the The Baldwin Project will be operating to assist The Founder's Committee and Board with smart planning.
Survey link: https://www.quicksurveys.com/s/n9S2Gb
Sample invite script: "Please take part in this survey to help the board of "The Baldwin Project" strategize for the implementation of a group economics, investing and entrepreneurial program among Atlanta's Black LGBT Community. After completing, please share this with at least 3 other members of our community. Our goal is to poll 500, but at least 100. Thank you!"
Marketing Strategy:
1. Use the link above to email to 10 Black LGBT Atlantans in your email list, asking them to share with 3 others.
2. Please directly Facebook IM 10 Black LGBT Atlantans asking them to share with 3 others.
Over the course of 30 days.
3. share the link above in 1-3 discussion groups for with a Black LGBT audience at most daily, at least 3 times a week.
4. Respondent Goal: 550
5. Status toward achieving this goal: was 2% last meeting, now 3% with 18 respondents
FORUM
Intentions:
To publicly stir the conversation surrounding the need for an organization like "The Baldwin Project"
To convict an audience into our first group of supporters and followers to fill any remaining Board Positions or committees not yet filled, to join The Founder's Committee if we have not reached 10 members, and those committed to attending, supporting and promoting our first social.
Primarily, we will be capturing emails from the survey to form the base of our market to invite to this forum.
Deadline for putting on the forum will be (This may need to be adjusted toward the beginning of the year after completing the survey.
We may need to being with an intimate setting of 10 at a home with committed individuals discussing the questions and responses to the survey and setting up next steps from there.
BOOK CLUB
Intentions:
To condition our market for the psychology conducive to enterprise, entrepreneurship, creativity, community leadership and hope.
For our new book selection in December, I will be polling this group to set the best meeting time.
We now a have a facebook discussion group for this. We are hosting it at Black Gay Owned Lounge, Studio No. 7. 393 Marietta St Atlanta GA 30313
NEXT MEETING Saturday, November 7th at the Decatur Library 4p-6p. RSVP HERE
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