Comments on: Partnership Plan 11/6/07: Please Comment

By: Toby Campbell

Toby Campbell — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:20:54 +0000

Deen, yours is a good question. For now, I think we might just want to start initiating some casual conversations to introduce ourselves to potential partners and see if they’d be interested in providing a bit of content for the launch. It will have to be an incremental process though, as we do still have several months before the site launches. These are just some ideas about how to get some conversations going for the time being, and to see how potential partners react to the possibility of working with us.
I will go ahead and contact the partners I’ve indicated for myself here, and we can continue our conversation as Amber and Chris talk to the organizations they are in touch with as well.

By: Deen Freelon

Deen Freelon — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:31:40 +0000

This looks great so far, Toby. My main question would be: what is the timeline for putting this plan into action? People have expressed some reservations about getting our partners in on the act too far in advance of the launch, for fear of them not taking us seriously (a la the Vera Project). I guess if we let them know about the grant money behind it and maybe show the prototype site, they might be more inclined to tentatively promise support.

By: Chris Tugwell

Chris Tugwell — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:00:31 +0000

Some other obvious partners are the YMCA Earth Service Corps (YESC) Program and the Mayors Youth Council.

YESC already indicated they would manage a group page. I don’t believe the director fully understood the concept, but she’s willing to give it a go. The group would probably be managed by their youth council.

YESC isn’t just a Y program. They actually provide stipends to schools that use the YESC model. This could lead to more environmental groups forming to share the work being done at each school.

I also believe we can get MYC involved. The program serves a lot of youth over the school year. One of their agenda items is to identify issues, research the issues, and present their findings to the mayor. It would be awesome if each issue team managed a PSO group and shared their work and findings with the larger community.