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• Update splash page - upcoming speaker meeting, out of date?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