Cohousing-L Mailing List: 2009 Coho Conference Update: quite the evening

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Dateline: Songaia, Sat, Jun 27 11:44pm


After another full day at the old Architecture building (for the Saturday
Plenary with Mark Lakeman), many breakout sessions in Gould Hall, and the
Fundraising Banquet in the East Ballroom of the Husky Union Building - all
at the University of Washington.

Today was quite something. Lots of learning and lots of playing.

Since its so fresh and I'm so tired, I'll just touch on the 2009 Fundraising
Banquet. It was amazing as people came together to invest in the future of
the cohousing movement. Our auctioneer, Kevin Benedict (also known as the
Singing Auctioneer) helped us reach into our wallets to help support Coho/US
and its work.

Perhaps the most gratifying part of the evening for me was "Fund-a-Dream"

Board member Eris Weaver told people about the 2009 Conference scholarships
that we gave out to help more people attend this year's conference. At
tonight's event, many people were very generous - we now know we'll be able
to fund a number of partial scholarships for the 2010 Conference in Boulder,
CO (June 16-20, 2010).

For those attending the conference, thank you so much for your support. For
those who couldn't make it this year, we hope to see you next year in
Boulder.

More about the conference content to come.

Craig Ragland
Executive Director
Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US)
425-487-3550
http://www.cohousing.org
craig [at] cohousing.org