Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community Improvement Grant Panel

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Just in case Dave doesn't follow Coho-L... your involvement on the
Community Improvement Grant panel will be entirely online and,
possibly, by phone.

I'm not on that panel, but I can state this definitively because
almost all Coho/US work is done remotely, via online and phone...
though some of us really enjoyed working together in person at the
National Conferences (next one is in Seattle in June of 2009). Hugs
can be really great - and hard to share remotely.

There is no Coho/US office... we all work out of our homes - though
some, in addition, do Coho/US work while at their day jobs. Very few
of the board or staff members live close enough to see each other
often. Some of our current board members and staff have never met each
other "in the flesh."

As oil prices start to skyrocket over the coming decades, this type of
distributed "workplace" will become very common for a great many
people. It will be interesting to see how cohousing communities
evolve... co-offices?, new common house features? A few cohousing
communities already have some great stories in this realm... I hope
somebody from Pioneer Valley in North Amherst picks up on that
comment.

Craig

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Catherine Scott <cwscott2 [at] msn.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dave, does it require in person involvement or can it be on line?
> Thanks, Catherine Scott in Evergreen> From: davewann [at] comcast.net> To: 
> cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:59:36 -0600> 
> Subject: [C-L]_ Community Improvement Grant Panel> > > > > CoHoUS Wants You> 
> > The few, the proud... the community grant evaluators! (Or "jurors," if> 
> that> sounds more prestigious.) Yes, the CoHoUS Board is searching for four> 
> EXCELLENT> volunteers to help evaluate Community Improvement Grant 
> submissions, due> October 31.> This is your chance to be a good cohousing 
> citizen and serve the> cohousing "nation."> > Do you have a few hours to give 
> to this worthy project? We have specific> criteria to guide the ranking 
> process, and we anticipate a fairly small> field> of submissions. Please 
> contact Dave Wann in Harmony Village if you're> interested, willing, or not 
> above being bribed. davewann [at] comcast.net (303)> 216-1281> > > 
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