Goal of Community Inclusion

Ensuring SWMA aligned with the community, its interests, and needs. Includes developing close relationships and collaboration with existing community groups and working to ensure active SWMA participants reflect the diversity of the S/W community

Please feel free to reorganize or build out this doc as you see fit!

Community Organizations in Sunnyside & Woodside

Other Members with Possible Community Affiliations (as of mid-June, there may be others now)

• gabriela silva: affiliated with a progressive online media platform and newspaper
• Mike Mainiero: Project Coordinator for Her Justice, a legal services organization for women living in poverty
• Natalie O'Shea: working as a community outreach data analyst for the NYC Census 2020 initiative
• Rachel: Librarian
• Sarah Stewart: works for the Dept. of Education central offices
• Stevie Carmody: Unitarian Universalist minister

Next Steps (last updated ~June 2020)

• Outreach in the next newsletter - ask current membership once more to email us with any affiliations they have to community orgs. (Ethan can coordinate/handle correspondence)
• Go back through introduce-yourself Slack channel and privately outreach people who grew up in the neighborhood, see if they want to join the WG. (Ethan can do some of this.)
• Do we have a current need to contact any of these orgs? If so, which ones, and what is the need?
  • Reach out to our Bengali volunteers and see if they are interested in joining the working group
• Karly will be thinking if we can adjust how we refer to our volunteer sign up form with input from our Spanish translators to address preconceptions around what being a volunteer means