Website Meeting - April 20, 2022

Attending:

Raines

Betsy

Hannah

Daveed

Angeles

 

Website (Nation Builder) updates and discussion:

  • Update splash page - upcoming speaker meeting, out of date?
  • font is small - make bigger
  • Member actions
    • Which pages can they update?
    • Campaign blog pages?
    • Calendar - adding events
  • User actions
    • can anyone be allowed to post to a blog page, even if they are not a member?
    • can users subscribe?
      • create specific blog pages for Issues/Campaigns
    • digest - with links
    • email people according to interests
  • New Permission sets?
    • need to upgrade/pay for more permission sets
    • Staff and Admin are current sets
  • Supporter v. Prospect (Nation Builder categories)
    • supporter means they've given us their email and are willing to receive messages
      • "Join" 
    • Member - our current version, lowest cost subscription doesn't have
      • list of membership fees and expirations - handles renewals of dues, emailing members to renew
      • right now we have to track their membership separately, payment by payment
    • Finance page
      • can see transactions
      • can manually enter expenses
  • Website updates
    • Participate - move subpages Join, Volunteer, Get In Touch underneath
      • Join - add questions about their interests, indicating what our issue areas
        • which of these issues affects you the most now?
        • what specific issues are you involved in? blank box
        • best contact method and times to contact you personally? is it okay to call you on the phone or do you prefer email or text?
        • accessibility needs
      • add link to Membership form somewhere after they Join - revisit/redraft, and post it on the website for people to fill out
        • create new Form page on website, redirected after they Join
      • get email or flag when a new member Joins (Betsy asks for this!!)
    • Meeting Notes - move under Events
      • add recordings links
      • use Tags to call out issues and link to notes in Newsletter/Digest
      • add past annotated Meeting Notes and Invitations
        • e.g. CANHR California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform lawyers and founder have spoken to Gray Panthers many times
        • CANHR is a Resource, Partner, and part of Campaigns
    • Resources v. Partners v. Issues
      • Resources - across campaigns and some general resources
        • static information
        • affordable housing, mental health resources (211 sucks)
        • where is the best information possible?
        • connects to calendar
      • Tag Resources and Calendar events with Issue/Campaign Tags
      • Active v. potential campaigns
    • Directory under Partners is automatically created based on Tags
      • Raines - build database with Tags
      • different Directories for different categories
  • Hannah
    • Doesn't intend to be an admin
    • LTS for All campaign liaison
    • Do you want to be able to add calendar items? Blog posts? not for now
    • Issues tab

 

Issues v. Campaign v. Partnership - create new pages?

  • Issues (higher level) >> Campaigns (sub-campaigns) - sometimes there are no active campaigns under issues
    • Issues
      • Health 
      • Housing
        • homeless rights
        • housing access
        • decommodify land
      • Transportation
        • specifically for older adults and persons with disabilities
        • Daveed needs to name a campaign
        • David Blake is liaison for Public Voices for Transportation, focuses on getting bond measures
        • David Blake - Pan-Disability Coalition ??? - ask David
      • Disability Rights
        • not necessarily ADA compliance enforcer
    • Campaigns - membership endorses each campaign, has a liaison, limited in scope (with specific goals, timeline, actions); how do we define a campaign and when do we know it's active?
      • Healthcare for All
        • Healthcare for All Californians
          • there's a coalition
          • legislation pending
        • Medicare for All
        • Long-term Support Services (LTSS) for All
          • New page describing issues (Hannah could edit) - coming from grassroots rather than professional level
          • Link to calendar with events
          • Relatively new organization, everybody in the coalition has their own website
          • 3-parts
            • IHSS Time for 20
            • Long-term Social Insurance Program
            • Build Back Better - in Congress, House passed, trying to get Senate to agree
        • Nursing Home Accountability
          • CANHR is a Resource, Partner, and part of Campaigns
          • National Gray Panthers nursing home campaign
            • SF chapter communicates with Betsy
          • we are part of Senior Housing Subcommittee - one of members wrote a gray paper
        • Disability Rights - no campaign, issue area
          • Disability Rights California
          • Senior Disability Action
          • Hand to Hand Domestic Employers Network
          • LTSS
        • Bill in Congress that would decrease the cost of insulin
          • part of National Council of Gray Panthers Network
      • Housing for All
        • Save Coyote Bush Collective Garden - formally request endorsement as active campaign
          • AG becomes liaison
          • add to blog
          • post events
        •  Partners
          • Landless Peoples Alliance
            • Daveed supports
            • mental health
              • Betsy gets emails about mental health events
              • link to someone else's page
              • invite guest experts or guest activists to use blog space
          • Friends of Adeline
          • Wood St. Commons
      • Transportation
        • Daveed can write a blog on transportation
    • Partners
      • CARA - partner on all levels
        • there are some campaigns they're not as active on
        • EBGP is a member of CARA - due-paying
        • meeting Tuesdays
        • lobby days
        • senior get out the vote
      • USOAC - haven't paid dues since the first year
      • Association Members - change/edit to Membership or Organizational Memberships (maybe include $ annual fee)
        • attend their regular meetings and join their campaigns when appropriate
        • pay dues
        • provide trainings usually
      • Gray Panthers chapters
        • Gray Panthers Portland
          • anti-gun campaign
          • wants to boycott Walmart
          • not an active issue or campaign, but can add referrals to other Panther chapters
        • link to list of all Gray Panthers chapters - Randy from National Council may have this
  • About
    • add long history
    • principles - discuss in board meeting - HEALTH is our core main focus related to all issues
      • anti-racist - define as a group
      • anti-agist
      • anti-ableist
      • anti-capitalist
      • intersectionality
      • feminist
      • democratic
    • organizational goals - talk with board and membership 
      • housing
        • de-commodification of land
        • rent-free housing
      • disability rights - get specific
      • equal rights - get specific
    • add Articles, Bylaws, 501(c)(3) letter, code of conduct 
      • add Code of Conduct under Meetings/Events page
    • edit content in About page to include Issues list - links to campaigns
  • Campaigns (new high level page) - subpages for each campaign
  • Resources

 

Newsletter

  • we don't have a newsletter because we don't have a newsletter editor
  • include links to events and just include headlines
  • used to be monthly newsletter and monthly flyers with announcements