Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Welcome kit

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

In addition to what you listed I have also seen brief member bio's included
in such a kit, listing things like skills, hobbies and roles. Also I have
seen groups include a "things wanted" list, which includes things like legal
expertise, construction experience, child care help, etc. One story I heard
about this was that a group actually got some good professional financial
advice from a volunteer who  didn't want to be a member, thought the idea
was cool, and was referred to by another person who got the welcome kit but
dropped out.

Rob Sandelin
Community Works! http://www.ic.org/nica/cw1.htm



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Hi all,

Writing from Mosaic Commons, a group working to get a couple more households
before starting land search West of Boston.

I'm putting together a welcome kit for people who are attending their first
general meeting - these folks have already been to an orientation /
introductory meeting, so this isn't their first intro to the group.

So far I'm looking to include...

1 - Guidelines for participation in meetings (i.e., prospective members can
join discussion but not participate in consensus, etc.)

2 - Explanation of the consensus color cards that we use, from Chris
ScottHansen's book.

3 - Timeline - where the group is, recent decisions, upcoming planned
events, etc.

4 - a "What happens next" document covering how to go from attending the
first meeting to becoming an associate or equity member

5 - a copy of our vision statement (which i also hand out at intro meetings,
but this seems to be a good one to hand out more than once)

Any other groups out there done something like this, or have feedback on
this?

Once it's done it will go up on our website (http://www.mosaic-commons.org)
and folks can feel free to borrow from it...

        - catya