Hey all-
This is to get a basic agenda with all the ideas on it. I'll simplify and compress it as we approach the meeting. Put your ideas here and we'll see where they go.

TENTATIVE agenda schedule:

9:30-10:00 Welcome, announcements
Check in with people assigned a task from last meeting
Assign note-taker for this meeting
10:00-10:30 Robert Jackson, state program director, speaks
10:30-11:00 Discuss ICC binder from last year
Leadership of ICC discussion
Brainstorm or plan for ICC mission statement
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 MLK day discussion
11:45-12:15 Form committees and have time to discuss with commitees
12:15-12:30 Brief overview of any committee decisions
Assign tasks for next time
Confirm next meeting time and place
12:30-1:00 Lunch, continue discussion (?)


Assigned tasks:
Devin- Finances/funding
Gaea & Stephanie - VISTA
& Cara- Wiki
Matt- Facebook
Stephanie- Meeting survey
Cara- Social events
Jade- Binder
Kaja- Previous ICC members/MLK

Committee topics:
a) Raising awareness
b) Newsletter
c) Social events- meetings in bars/coffee shops, mixer, visit other sites,
d) Fundraising?
e) combined service projects
f) AmeriCorps conference
g) AmeriCorps census
h) MLK day
i) Long-term service project


1. raising awareness through college vistis- figuring out details of who/where ?

2. Funding from Serve Minnesota - Devin

3. What we will do for MLK Day (it's going to be a little more than a month from our next meeting, so we should plan fast!)

4. Assign duties to prep for MLK Day (teams? committees? etc)

5. Read/discuss the ICC binder from last year that Matt from AP found.

6.Robert Jackson, state program director for the Corporation for National and Community Service, has offered to come speak to us about how Americorps was started in MN

7. Discuss (and draft?) a permenant ICC mission statement

8. Leadership of ICC (permenant positions, rotating positions, notebook of minutes, etc)

9. Any news on finding non-state AmeriCorps

10) Check in with people assigned a task from last meeting

11) Small groups work on prject ideas from last meeting
a) Raising awareness (this may end up being its own topic)
b) Newsletter
c) Social events- meetings in bars/coffee shops, mixer, visit other sites,
d) Fundraising?
e) combined service projects
f) AmeriCorps conference
g) AmeriCorps census
h) MLK day
i) Long-term service project

12) I am trying to get a hold of previous ICC members- perhaps it may be a good idea to do a follow up project for MLK from a previous service project- to sustain ICC improvements in the community- I will fill you in at the meeting with whatever info I find- Kaja

13) MLK Day: split up into our corps groups and address one issue- like homelessness. Volunteer at organizations that deal with issues realted to homelessness. Kaja