Re: Building Diversity | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: John Major (jmajormhz.com) | |
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:15:54 -0600 |
Hi - As far as families with children go, BE SURE you have steady, reliable day-care during your business and introductory meetings. It goes a *very* long way to helping families, esp. with young kids, feel welcome, and to be able to focus on the difficult organizational job at hand. And besides, what parent can pass up a baby-stting opportunity! ;-) Specifically, we found a person that was willing to commit to our once-every-two weeks schedule, and found a meeting space that had a good, adjacent day care room (with kitchen, TV and the like - it is a bank vault in a City Building, so you swing the iron door shut to cut the noise!). We guarantee the sitter a weekly fee, and each parent "tips" per child as well. So far it has worked well, but we started out by doing it all ourselves and getting pretty burned out on it. For one thing, the families with children are just as often some of the "burning souls", and for them to have to worry about kids in addition to being amateur developers was pretty stressful. So our current arrangement is very much appreciated, and we have had good success attracting families with kids. Keep in mind that we've had the opposite complaint as well, to be fair - that we are too biased to family needs, and not aware enough of singles. So it's tough to get it just so - that's why it's a Process, right? John Major Wasatch Cohousing - where we have closed out the unit "customizations", and are nailing down "option" plans for the units - and have started the real applications to the banks - and are getting ready to apply for our building permit - and... and...
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