Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: COHOUSING-L digest 521

[G.S. (ygrec]

Greg Smith from East Bay CoHousing here, responding to your babysitting
question.  

We currently have one household with a child.  We provide childcare at our
monthly general meeting, and request that interested people with children
wanting childcare RSVP as such.  If no one attends with a need at the
orientation, and there are no kids present by the time our meeting begins,
we pay the childcare provider for their time spent and they can go.  We have
contacted neighborhood placement agencies and have had good success.

In our opinion it is good practice for those who want to include people
wanting their children involved, or feel that they would not attend
otherwise.  It can increase the opportunity for family involvement and show
our support for an open environment.

Small investment, large potential return!

WWW.EBCOHO.ORG - darn close to finding a site in the East Bay area.
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>From: cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org
>To: Multiple recipients of list <cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org>
>Subject: COHOUSING-L digest 521
>Date: Sun, Oct 15, 2000, 1:20 PM
>

>       COHOUSING-L Digest 521
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>Topics covered in this issue include:
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>  1) Can I buy your slides for our marketing?
> by Tonka444 [at] aol.com
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>Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 16:24:02 EDT
>From: Tonka444 [at] aol.com
>To: cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org
>Subject: Can I buy your slides for our marketing?
>Message-ID: <ce.be12082.271b6c62 [at] aol.com>
>
>Hi--
>
>We at Greater Hartford Cohousing are going to be stepping up our outreach and 
>speaking in front of different groups in our region.
>
>I have a video which works well for our newcomers meetings but think a slide 
>show presentation would work better for other situations.
>
>If anyone has a good group of slides that they use to illustrate cohousing, 
>could I pay for the copies and shipping and maybe a little extra for the 
>trouble?  With three kids and a husband, I really don't have the time to make 
>them myself.
>
>One last question....do you recommend the group picking up the tab for the 
>babysitter at the general business meetings?  We have ten households but only 
>two families so far and are hoping for many more.  How many groups felt that 
>picking up that tab increased the families?
>
>Thanks always for your answers,
>
>Shelly DeMeo
>Greater Hartford Cohousing
>
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