Alumni Updates

There was some desire to move conversation to the blog and out of our inboxes. Historically, this has been enough to kill the discussion, but let's try anyway.

SO, POST AWAY!

I'll start with an alumni update...

The Alumni Network must choose a YAC Liason. The position requires participation during alumni conference calls and actions as well as being an active conduit for the exchange of ideas between the two groups. While all YAC members are asked to keep the alumni in mind, it will be the liason's charge to forge concrete opportunities for collaboration.

Eligible candidates are continuing YAC members. Apply by sending (to Kyle by July 4th) a few persuasive sentences about your vision for alumni involvement and the role for the liason in this process. The active alumni network will vote on the responses and pick two candidates for the formal position.

Since most of us will be on DC during the World Conference, we should arrange a Legacy activist meetup to all connect! I don't know much about DC nightlife, but I'm told Club 9:30 is 18+... Anyone have ideas for dates/times/places?

Caroline - Sunrise (mp3)

"Everything you touch turns into gold when I'm away."

Happy Retirement!

Now is the time to have a conversation about how we're going to handle our retirement from Legacy. Are we going to lay braindead and connected with an IV? Meet monthly in the basement messhall of the community center to chat about the weather? Crochet kleenex holders for our younger and more agile counterparts? Get collagen implants and crash the afterbar? Marry hookers and move to vegas?

1) Who are we?
2) Why does Legacy need us?
3) How can we continue help Legacy?
4) What do we want to do?
5) What do we want from Legacy?
6) What do we need to put this plan into action?
7) Other?

I like Rachi's idea that this be the informal brainstorming to inspire a more formal plan representing our view on the direction of the "existing" Legacy Alumni Network (damn, we are strategic plan whores).

Post here and post often... at least once by next week Friday!
(I'm working on getting updates sent out to everyone).

Legacy Honors!

Sweet deal! Who's coming and when?

Legacy Alumni Network?

After the announcement of the transition the other night on the conference call, the reality hit me that our group's future is limited. I'm concerned that our networking will be lost after our terms on the Youth Activism Council as it has with previous members. Could there be some sort of Legacy Alumni Network that would continue to stay in contact? The network would be inexpensive to maintain (email updates, conference calls) and would keep us all connected to support each other in our efforts as well as to support the active Youth Activism Council if needed. Is this something we could include in the strategic plan? What do people think?

Conference Call 2.7.05

1) Newsletter
2) Blog
3) Phone Tree
4) Adrian's Board Update
5) Strategic Plan
6) Activism Events: Altria / Smoking in Movies
7) New Legacy programming structure
8) International Day of Action
9) Membership transition in June

Dowload the minutes.

Phone Tree

Get a call, make a call... hopefully this will be an additional outlet to make sure that everyone knows there is a conference call and secondly a way for additional people to know that someone will not be attending the call and perhaps to get some input from that person.

A: Rachi –> Anthony –> Patrick –> Adrian
B: Katy –> Amanda –> Andrea –> Ty
C: April –> Kyle –> Thania –> Gustavo –> Seth

Hello? Is this thing on?

This can serve as a temporary web presence for the American Legacy Foundation's youth activists. It is a group blog with no file hosting, but information can be easily linked [ie ALF website]. This could be a tool to announce and discuss relevant information with the group. Comments can be made to each post only by members of the blog (or it can be opened to the public). We need to have a discussion about the danger of this being posted online and therefore accessible to anyone.

I'm still interested in exploring room in the ALF Youth Activism budget to accomodate a webtool with other vital features (file hosting, simultaneous public and members-only pages, an online updateable calendar, chatting device, etc).

What do you think? Leave a comment.