January 14, 2009-- Outreach/Townhall meeting

Our January meeting will be held as an outreach meeting, all public are welcome and encouraged to attend to share views on what the Education Committee should be doing for and with you. Please return to this site for more and upcoming information on location and presentations.

Notes and Next-steps from 12/10 meeting

Next steps:
*January meeting (01/14) will be a townhall/outreach meeting in order to hear from our constituents what their needs are and the ideas they have for how we can work together to meet their needs and bring their ideas to fruition.
--> Kathleen and Danielle will be making flyer postings
--> Danielle will be reaching out to external partners for presentations and confirming attendance
PUBLIC: if you can help, please contact danielle (danielle.duran@dlanc.com) to help us to bring residents and workers that care about education to our meeting.
Notes from 12/10 meeting
1. Call to order and roll call.
2. Approval of November minutes.
3. PROJECT UPDATES and closeouts
4. OUTREACH MEETING PLANNING: January meeting will be an outreach/townhall meeting-- we will be planning on how to make that successful; new projects will be on-hold until after January meeting
5. Comments by committee members on non-agenda items and comments by non-committee members on non-agenda items
6. Deciding on next meeting agenda items and confirmation of next meeting date
7. Adjournment.

December 10 Meeting Agenda

OUR DECEMBER MEETING WILL FOCUS ON PLANNING FOR AN OUTREACH MEETING IN JANUARY

1. Call to order and roll call.
2. Approval of November minutes.
3. PROJECT UPDATES and closeouts
4. OUTREACH MEETING PLANNING: January meeting will be an outreach/townhall meeting-- we will be planning on how to make that successful; new projects will be on-hold until after January meeting
5. Comments by committee members on non-agenda items and comments by non-committee members on non-agenda items
6. Deciding on next meeting agenda items and confirmation of next meeting date
7. Adjournment.

Our Mission Statement and Core Values

At last night's meeting we approved our mission statement and our core values:

The mission of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Education Committee is

To empower and uplift community members of all ages by facilitating opportunities to both teach and learn from each other.

Core Values

Collective and Personal Responsibility—We share responsibility for each other, just as we are responsible for our selves. We respect one another unconditionally. The strength of our community depends on the tenacity and cohesiveness of its people. We know it is up to us to make it happen and we know we need to do what it takes.

Excellence and Value—We strive for achieving excellence in all we do and aim to add identifiable value to the lives of those around us.

Possibility—We are optimistic in our approach of known and unknown challenges.

Voice—We embrace the opinions of one another and take ownership over ensuring that the wide variety of voices of our community are heard and if not they are sought out.

November Meeting

Tonight's meeting we will approve a finalized vision statement and decide on new projects to take on. I will be presenting a grant possibility for a project aimed at youth in our community. To view the agenda please go to http://dlanc.com/committees/education.php?agenda=1

Upcoming Events and Projects

December 4, 2008 is Project Homeless Connect Day where our committee will be hosting a booth for our annual book give-away-- we are currently looking for additional book donations and for people to spend time with us at the booth.

BOOK DONATIONS FOR PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT DAY

This year's Project Homeless Connect Day will be held on Thursday, December 4^th, from 10am – 3pm on 6^th Street between Wall Street and San Pedro. The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC) Education Committee will be hosting a used book and dictionary giveaway at a booth at this year's event. From the inception of Downtown's Project Homeless Connect Day our book and dictionary giveaway has drawn a large number of serious readers who carefully peruse the exceptional books donated by Little Tokyo and Central libraries as well as members of our community.

With this year's book giveaway a few short weeks away we are looking to increase the number of books that we have been able to offer in the past. We turn to you, our community, in hopes of inspiring more donations so that the engaged readers visiting our booth to will have their thirst for literature satiated.

If you have any books that you would like to donate to this event, you may drop them off on the third floor of 606 S. Olive Street, between 9am-5pm, Monday through Friday, until December 2^nd. In the lobby of the third floor you will find a box to leave your books which will be picked up by our committee chair. All books will undoubtedly find a home with the serious readers in the homeless and Skid Row communities, but of particular interest are books about religion, history, those that are self-help themed, children's books, novels, and Spanish language books. Please keep in mind the large influx of children of all ages to the homeless community downtown.

We are also interested in having community members help us on the day of the event at the booth-- if you are interested in joining us on the day of the event please contact Danielle at education@dlanc.com

Sustained projects

Updates on 3-on-3 Basketball and Skid Row Photo Club SKID ROW PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB SHOW: "The Beauty of the Street" Premier Night will be November 13, 2008 during the Downtown Artwalk at Stella Dottir located at 430 S Main St For info, visit http://www.skidrowphotoclub.com/home.html 3-on-3 STREETBALL LEAGUE

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