Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Can I buy your slides for our marketing?

[Diane or Douglas (ddhle]

We at Songaia do pay for baby sitters at the general meetings. To my 
knowledge we have always done this (close to 10 years I believe). This 
requires 3 or 4 baby sitters sometimes. I personally believe that to not do 
that sends a loud message that families are not very welcome and more 
subtlely that children are not. I would think think twice about considering 
any community that didn't pay for baby sitting ( I do have children).

Doug,
Songaia Cohousing
Bothell, Washington


On Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:20 PM, Tonka444 [at] aol.com 
[SMTP:Tonka444 [at] aol.com] wrote:
| 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
|