RESULTS Diversity Task Force Strategies and Goals

Strategies:
A) Determine contact person in the minority community.B) Set up a meeting with the contact person to cover:

1) This is RESULTS
a) personal story
b) RESULTS activities locally and nationally
c) RESULTS campaigns for 2008

2) Intent of Diversity Task Force
a) Cedar Rapids is a pilot city
b) The identified minority communities are: African-American, Hindu-American, Hispanic, Jewish, Muslim-American, Native American
c) This community can join an existing RESULTS group or four members can function as a group within a Cedar Rapids coalition. We will listen to conference calls together, do fundraisers together, do outreach meetings together; we can hold second monthly meeting separately in order to focus on public or political education.

3) What I need from you (the contact person):
a) What do I need to know about your community? citizenship, culture, economics, language, literacy, transportation
b) Can you help me set up an informational meeting? Identify people who might be interested, invite the wider community

C) Hold informational meeting
1) Use Compassion and Empowerment presentation; Everyday Heroes DVD; testimonial from RESULTS activist; depending on literacy and citizenship of group, write letters to MoC or LTEs.
2) Collect contact information from interested people.
3) Set up training sessions.

Goals:
Native American community
Have meeting with contact by June 2008; 1 new member.

Hispanic community
Have meeting with contact by end of June 2008; do informational meeting by end of July 2008; 3 new members in training by end of August 2008.

Muslim-American community
Have meeting with contact by end of July 2008; do informational meeting by end of August 2008; 5 new members in training by end of September 2008.

Jewish community
Have meeting with contact by end of August 2008; do informational meeting by end of September 2008; 5 new members in training by end of October 2008.

Hindu-American community
Have meeting with contact by end of September 2008; do informational meeting by end of October 2008; 5 new members in training by end of November 2008.

African-American community
Establish contact by end of June 2008; meet with contact by end of October 2008; do informational meeting by end of November 2008; 5 new members in training by end of January 2009.