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Once you're organized, and have all the project management stuff in place, the first "real work" is to start recruiting community partners in this effort.
One of the absolutely key points about this project is that the activities are a lot like what your emergency management folks do for a living -- but probably on a different (much larger, much broader) scale. So a lot of what this is about is "cranking up" the contingency plans of the emergency management people by recruiting more people, and mobilizing more resources, out of your community.
If you´re a Builder of Networks or a Making Connections Type Person in your community, this would be a good area for you to focus your volunteer efforts on.
Here are some of the things that you could do
Right away
- Set up community partner communications mechanism (e.g. email/phone tree, etc)
- Establish contact with nonprofits
- Establish contact with churches
- Establish contact with neighborhood associations
- Establish contact with business associations
- Establish contact with schools and school boards
- Establish contact with others, as identified
- Create contact list of all year 2000 offices
- Establish liaisons with other governments (urban, country, state, federal)
Throughout the project
- Conduct ongoing coordination and update meetings
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