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Organizing Committee Meeting June 30, 2010

Organizing Committee Meeting June 30, 2010. www.springfieldinstitute.org. Agenda. Introductions ( 5 mins ) Update ( 10 mins ) Board development ( 10 mins ) Strategic plan discussion ( 40 mins ) PVGrows presentation ( 20 mins ). Update. Hampshire Council of Governments

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Organizing Committee Meeting June 30, 2010

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  1. Organizing Committee Meeting June 30, 2010 www.springfieldinstitute.org

  2. Agenda • Introductions(5 mins) • Update (10 mins) • Board development(10 mins) • Strategic plan discussion(40 mins) • PVGrows presentation (20 mins)

  3. Update • Hampshire Council of Governments • Direct Democracy grant • African Diaspora proposal • Wellness Leadership Council • Promise Neighborhood Committee • Wednesday Rides • Amherst College class • Blog, events

  4. Board Development • Current structure/membership • Proposed structure: Board of directors, advisory board, committees • Appointment process • Membership criteria: Diversity (race/ethnicity, geography, sector, etc.) • Timeframe: New slate by 8/1 • Commitment: 3 year terms, 4 meetings per year, serve on 1 committee, help shape direction of SI, ambassador for SI

  5. Strategic Plan What is it? This strategic plan is a tool for defining and managing our work, holding ourselves accountable, tracking progress, and creating real impact. The tool is a linear progression, binding our vision to concrete goals and deliverables.

  6. Strategic Plan How will it be used? With the help of a formal protocol (below), the plan helps us allocate financial and human resources, track progress, and make our work accessible to a range of stakeholders.

  7. Vision A prosperous, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable region supported by institutions and residents engaged in public policy and community initiatives. prosperous: growth, jobs, where you raise your kids vibrant: artful, diverse, “on the map” equitable: opportunity, justice, low disparities sustainable: environmentally and financially

  8. Support organizations to implement innovative and transformative projects through capacity building, analysis, strategic communications and planning with broad community participation. Mission

  9. Goals • Engage • residents to shape policies and projects Provoke critical thinking about successful models • Improve • effectiveness of partner organizations

  10. Goal 1Provoke critical thinking about successful initiatives Recentprojects • Digital and printarticles • Voting/Censusparticipation • Amherst Collegecourse Areas ofinterest • Schoolreform • TransformationIndicators • Demographic data bank • OpportunityNation

  11. Goal 2Engage residents to shapepolicies and projects Recentprojects • BreakingtheSilence • DirectDemocracyproject • Social InnovationLab Areas of interest • Eco organizing • Riverkeepers • Social change calendar • CivicEngagement Center • Princeton AlumniEvent • Candidateworkshops

  12. Goal 3Improve effectiveness ofpartnering organizations RecentProjects • Hampshire Council of Govts. • African DiasporaProject Areas of interest • MOCHA • NeighborhoodCouncils • Enfieldsenior living RFP

  13. Current Structure Board of Directors Advisory Board Executive Director Deputy Director Project Director Intern Intern

  14. Board of Directors Advisory Board Aspirational Structure Alumni Assoc. Executive Director Development & Communications Community Organizer Policy Director Research Director Grant Writer Research Fellows Field Workers Research Analyst(s) Policy Analyst(s)

  15. PVGrows Presentation Introduction by Van Jones

  16. “Pioneer Valley Grows is offering new loan options and creative financing opportunities for enterprises that help bring more local food to markets and fill food system infrastructure gaps in the Pioneer Valley.” “We are now looking for committed entrepreneurs whose well-researched plans provide solutions for handling, processing, or distributing local agricultural products, and improve sales for farm-related businesses. Plans can be in various stages of completion:  you do not need to have a complete business plan to receive consideration for financing.”

  17. PVGrows Overview PVGROWS is a membership organization, dedicated to providing opportunities for collaboration, partnership and innovation among people dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley Food and Agriculture system

  18. The Local Food Movement(s) • Three Connected Components (Described Many Ways) • Economic Self-Reliance (Local Economies) • Food Security (Less Vulnerability to Global Shifts) • Food Justice (Access/Nutrition) • Three Realities • It is Happening – Decades of Hard Work (More Farmers, Farmers Markets, Sustainable Practices) • Government & Big Business Notice • The Movement is Unfunded – No Capital

  19. PVGRows: The Local Response • Loose Collaboration of Self-identifying Food System Participants (Farmers, Activists, Entrepreneurs, Investors) • Identified Key Gaps in Local Food System: Collaboration, Experienced Entrepreneurs, Financing, Just Access and Physical Infrastructure • Comprised of Working Groups (Infrastructure Finance, Land Preservation, Farm to School, Policy, Food Access, Etc.) • Staffed by Part-Time Coordinator, Hosted by CISA @ S. Deerfield Office

  20. PVGrows Infrastructure Finance • Collaboration between Foundations (Solidago/Frances Fund and Lydia B. Stokes), Lenders (WMEF, CFNE, FCCDC, ET) and Ag Focused Groups (CISA, NESFI, DAR) • Put out Call for Plans • Developing Loan Fund – Partner Fund Between Lenders and PRI Makers • Future Goals: More Entrepreneurial Development & Creation of Community Capital Fund

  21. Value Add of PV Grows • Zero Fee Collaboration with Some Staff Support: Position Food Sectors for Food Movement Opportunities & Bring Sectors Together • Loan Fund: Higher Risk, Slightly Below Market Rate, High Touch, Proactive Effort to Fill Gaps in Local Food System • Organizing at Pioneer Valley Scale – Still Small Enough to be Personal, but significant opportunity to meet needs of underserved communities while revitalizing the local food economy • Our Take on the Hardwick, VT Model: Vertically Integrated Food System at Local Scale

  22. Future Efforts • Increase the Participant Base • Be Disciplined Investors to Build Scale • Raise Community Capital to Bring Secure, Critical Infrastructure Back • Focus on Supporting Food Security/Food Justice Efforts in Hampden County • Food Access • Food as a Right • Entrepreneurial Activity

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