Farhad<br>temperature on mailing list? I propose that we set it up under the Occupy Boston domain.<br><br>Ppl are ok with this, Farhad is going to go ahead and set it up, going to start with it moderated.<br><br>Can we rotate host responsibilities?<br>
<br>Agreed. <br><br>Leah:<br>Can we get clarification on what our goals are for these groups?<br><br>Farhad:<br>I think this is a place to have discussion about what we say to donors and supporters<br>of the occupation movement and larger financial justice sector.<br>
<br>Do we have someone who can step up and host next week's call?<br><br>Jay from Occupy Stanford has offered to host next week.<br><br>Farhad:<br>We can move logistical conversations like finding a host/notetakers to the listserv.<br>
<br>Group: Agreed<br><br>Introductions<br>Farhad, Occupy Boston<br>Leah, OWS<br>Jay, Occupy Stanford<br>Greg, Occupy Boston<br>Tracy<br><br>Jay: I think it would be helpful to put on the agenda the inter connectivity of donors and occupations<br>
<br>Leah: the first instinct of donors have been to try and donate directly to the occupations.<br>We've put together a document to collect info on organizations that have been working on the<br>ground with the occupations.<br>
<br>Tracy: There was a panel in front of about 60 donors about 3 weeks ago. I suggest that they spend a large percentage<br>on groups they've never heard of.<br><br>What do they need now? With an eye to the Tea Party, they had donors dump millions into national efforts,<br>
I don't think we want to become like them.<br><br>Greg: We brought in 50 - 60 K. We're getting requests fo things like 2K for a food pantry. When ppl give,<br>they are giving towards us because of OWS, so how can we be financial accountability.<br>
<br>Leah: That is why we're building this map of local organizations.<br><br>Ali: I've been trying to build an outline of basic needs that occupations may have so we can identify those needs,<br>and then communicate to supportative orgs and donors.<br>
<br>Jay: This is very similar to the system analysis that we have been doing here. I think we will see <br>a half dozen legit fundraising sites.<br><br>Tracy: One thing we could do is draw from the committees to get needs from them.We could also create partnerships,<br>
where we could go to organizations with proposals. What does the process look if we defer some of the decision making<br>process to the cmtes?<br><br>There is something called wildcard money that donors that give funds that can be used however, but that is very rare.<br>
<br>Ali: I really like this idea of polling various occupy cmtes. Should I put together a survey?<br><br>Tracy: Yes, I think this is a good idea. It would be great to put it online, but also make it printable.<br><br>Leah: Should we work with <a href="http://occupywishlist.org">occupywishlist.org</a>?<br>
<br>Ali: I think there are other needs besides just material needs that I am trying to document, which don't really fit with in the<br>occupywishlist such as services like hosting and porta potties. Additionally there are issues with MoveOn being behind<br>
the site.<br><br>Jay: I think there are some orgs that have been trying to take the #occupy brand to further their own agenda.<br><br>Forrest Todd from Occupy System Cooperative has joined us.<br><br>Leah: Maybe the InterOccupy listservs would be a good place to go with the survey.<br>
<br><a href="mailto:farhad@occupyboston.org">farhad@occupyboston.org</a><br><br>Jay: Agreed, we can send it out to the lists and maybe even add it as an agenda item to the InterOccupy calls.<br>