PSC Action Team Volunteer meeting

Saturday, May 26, 10:30 – 12:00

Location: Tully's Coffee Shop at Yoyogi Station (JR), North Exit
http://www.tullys.co.jp/store/detail.php?shop_id[]=24

Main agenda items – PR and final preparations for June 3 Forum
Contact japanias@hotmail.com for details on how you can get involved
in upcoming PSC projects!

Spring 2007 meetings

Saturday, April 21, 10-12noon
PSC Action Team Volunteer meeting
Location: Tully’s, Yoyogi north exist
Visit http://psc-action-team.blogspot.com/ for more details.

Saturday, May 25, 10:30 – 12:00
PSC Action Team Volunteer meeting
Location: Tully’s, Yoyogi north exist
Visit http://psc-action-team.blogspot.com/ for more details.

Saturday, June 30, 10:30 – 12:00
PSC Action Team Volunteer meeting
Location: Tully’s, Yoyogi north exist
Visit http://psc-action-team.blogspot.com/ for more details.

PSC Action Team and Skills Build Focus group meetings

PSC Action Team Meeting
Saturday, February 24, 2007 10 am - 12 noon
Tully’s Coffee Shop at Yoyogi Station (JR), North Exit
http://www.tullys.co.jp/store/detail.php?shop_id[]=246

Join us for the first action team meeting of the year. We will be making detailed plans for the action team events on the yearly calendar. This year we will develop 2 to 3 panel discussions as well as have several action days including a beach clean up and an event based on the theme of hunger. This is a great chance to get involved with PSC. We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information, please contact Marcie at mfinck@kta.att.ne.jp

Skills Build focus group - Nonprofit NGO leaders lunch
Friday March 2 12:30-2:00pm
at Fujimama's in Harajuku
map and access info: http://www.fujimamas.com/contact-map.html
theme #1: skill needs and volunteer availability
Cost - pay as you go,
RSVP - Please contact rose.ito@gmail.com by March 1 to join us.

Overview - A time to share ideas and know how and talk about problems we commonly face. I would also like to run some project or workshop ides by you and i would love for you to do the same. Topics i have had in mind include pr, volunteer needs info sharing, fundraising events etc...We would like to come up with a topics list at the first gathering.
Note - This month will be over lunch but next month we will do it in the evening. We will hold them at different times (early evening over coffee/drinks or over lunch) so that different people can join.

PSC 2007 events schedule

March
- team meetings
Feb. 24 - action team
March 2 -skills build focus group
- core group meeting date TBA
- action event? i.e. join another group's event?
(US student volunteer starts internship March 23)

April
- skills build workshops series #1
- April 3,7,10,14, 17, 21, 24 (5 or 6 of these) themes - pr (?), advocacy (SJR), vol mgt (SJR), education for social justice (MARCIE), community organizing (SJR), fundraising (?)
- team meetings
focus group - april 2
- core group meeting

May
- panel #1 – theme women and children
- team meetings
- core group meeting

June
- skills build workshops series #2
- themes - presentation skills (dawn?), letter writing (SJR), creating a corporate council for nonprofit NGO support (SJR) educating on human rights issues (?), fundraising (SJR) youth and social change ?? (Ari – psc intern)
- team meetings
- core group meeting

July
- action event #2 theme – sea/environment – beach clean up?
- team meetings
- core group meeting

August
No event
Core group meeting and Preparation

mid-late September
- panel #2 – theme – TBD (disaster prevention and relief?)
- team meetings
- core group meeting
(US student volunteer returns to the US)

mid-October to mid November
- skills build workshops series #3
Outreach(?), fair trade (SJR), Fundraising (?), Advocacy (SJR), 2? (?)

- team meetings
- core group meeting

late November/early December
- Action event – theme: hunger or poverty
- team meetings
- core group meeting

January 2007 meeting schedule and locations

Please join one of our 3 meetings this month! We'll discuss goals and plans. After brainstorming project ideas for 2007 we'll talk about how everyone can get involved in PSC.

The following positions are open: materials development, volunteer day planning, PR for events, database development, outreach, community news research and translation, new website development. We are also in need of some office supplies such as a small desk and some computer related items. Please contact rose.ito@gmail.com and join PSC meetings in January 2007 to find out how you can get involved!

Monday, January 15, 7:30-9:00 pm
PSC event planning meeting #1
Location: PSC office, Okachimachi Ueno area
1-20-6 Higashi-Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8605
A map can be found at http://www.jca.apc.org/repp/REPPchizu.htm

Sunday, January 21 6:00-7:30 pm

PSC event planning meeting #2
Location: Cafe pause in Ikebukuro
http://www.geocities.jp/cafe_pause_ikebukuro/
There is also a more detailed map here: http://bento.com/rev/2506.html

Saturday, January 27 - 10:30-12:00 noon
PSC event planning meeting #3
Location: Koots Tea Shop, Harajuku/Omotesando area
Map and access info: http://www.koots.co.jp/store/detail_06.php
Contact rose.ito for meeting details or visit http://people-for-social-change.blogspot.com/

Basic agenda
1. Introductions - getting to know everyone
2 PSC intro
3. PSC 2007 planning ideas
4. Teams and volunter needs
5. Next steps

Core committee followup meeting:
Friday Feb 2 7:30 - 9:30 (at the office in Ueno)
the planning committee will put together notes from all three meetings and come up with a concrete 2007 schedule and plan.