Here
are some Suggestions for developing an...
AGENDA.
For Your
Community Center...
Get Together...
In your neighborhood.
1. Read
parts of this
on line community Guidebook and Handbook...
If You want to... You
can Copy or Print Out... Relevant Information...
2. Secure a space
for a neighborhood meeting...
And
post notices of meetings...
Using
fliers, word of mouth...
And
inexpensive advertisements.
3. Give out
Your community web site address...
And/or... Copied material from this Guidebook &
Handbook...
To
people responding to Your advertisements...
So they can look
over the materials and ideas...
Before the meeting.
4. Follow Community
Center suggested meeting agenda guidelines.
( See Meeting Agenda
Pg 36 )
5. Sign up...
People who want to...
Help open
Your Community Center.
Commitments of one year is the desired individual commitment time to...
Help
start Your center.
The more
people signing up... The
better.
You may have to
start a center by yourself.
If you do, keep in
touch with other centers...
For encouragement
and to share experiences.
( See LIST of
CENTERS on this web site )
6. Locate a space
to house Your Community Center.
(See
Housing a Center Pg 26 )
7. Install a
telephone or use any kind of communication...
That
work for You and Your Center
( See
Communication between centers around the world Pg 28 )
8. Install the
filing system.
( See
Filing System Pg 29 )
9. Make a banner to
put over the entrance...
To the Community Center for easy identification.
Earth citizens in
the area...
Should
also be aware of the centers existence and purpose.
Use
Your
Community Center web site, news media and start a coordinating committee.
( See Banner Layout
Pg 56 )
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10.
Set up a schedule of hours... Your center
will be open...
The criteria for
hours of operation ought to be based on the idea that...
A few hours...
Continuously open...
Is better than a lot of hours with gaps.
11. Fix up the
space so that it is comfortable and homey...
For new people to stop by, chat and
get involved.
Introduce each other... When
new people...
Walk
through the door of Your center...
And
then talk about needs
and how to share skills...
And
exchange ideas about providing the...
Necessities of life...
To All People...
In Your community.
Centers ought
to have kitchen facilities...
With
a good soup cooking...
Public restrooms...
And
easy access for physically challenged volunteers.
(
See Floor Plan Pg. 1 )
12. Make Your
Community Center's information available...
And post it in Your
neighborhood.
13.
Open the doors and let all people in, to participate.
Introduce Yourself
to others. Helping or being helped.
a. Start filling
the filing system with appropriate information...
From neighborhood people,
government agencies, non profit groups, volunteers etc.
b. Search teams
should find people who want to become involved...
People who need help... People
with time to share...
And
people to operate the centers... So it
can be open longer hours.
Start connecting
people in Your community, of all ages.
Encouraging them to
share in every way through the centers.
14. Continue
making connections among...
People... Places... And things.
Experiment with
new, challenging ideas...
That will make a better life for each person... In
Your Community...
Especially a better world community, for the children of tomorrow.
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15. Volunteer
Your
Time... Skills...
Or
whatever you have to share with people and centers...
Enter into the
Community Center filing system...
Your skills for helping others.
Also file... Things
you have need of.
List the times you
are available to help others...
And/or the times
you can be helped.
List projects you
are interested in doing...
So you can be connected with others interested in
similar projects...
And
connect
on the Regional and World level.
16.
Add Your Community Center... Physical, and web site address...
To the list of
centers around the world...
Note: See LINK to LIST of centers Around the Earth... On
this web site.
Centers, Ought to include their... latitude and longitude.
There can be a
world map in each center.
With pins marking
the location of existing...
And planned centers around the world.
17. This is not
rocket science...
Or a high level,
far out, unattainable, academic, utopian, concept.
It is... people
helping people.
18. A center ought
to be independent and responsible...
Only to its volunteers and its collective
conscience and community committees.
The center should
not be responsible to, or affiliated with...
Any other authority or agency other
than itself.
19. The
Community Centers
premise ought to be operated with an...
"open door" policy.
It is recommended
that many volunteers, rather than only a few...
Have keys to the center.
Once a center is
open twenty four hours a day...
No keys will be necessary.
20. Centers
ought to have the freedom to try new ideas...
In order to help the people they
serve.
Centers and Volunteers have the right... To be wrong.
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21. The center
ought to be peopled... by volunteers.
Occasionally
however, the centers may have to hire people...
With a specific skill necessary
to the operation of the center.
22. A city ought to
have many ( local neighborhood ) centers...
And a regional center.
There can be one, five
or more Community Centers in neighborhoods...
Or in a
city... Depending on the needs of the people.
23.
A local Community Center ought never become so large...
That
it becomes...
Impersonal.
If a
center becomes too large and impersonal...
It
ought to divide into two centers.
Centers ought to
work with each other, sharing information...
Contacts, volunteers and material
resources.
24. No center ought
to ever dominate other centers.
If a center moves
in this direction...
It is
not operating in a appropriate way.
( Re-Read the
Community
Guidebook and the Earth Repair Handbook.
)
25. Once three or
more local centers are operating...
A regional center can and should be started.
26. As soon as
three or more regional centers are operating...
And
communicating with each other.
Continental center can and should be started.
All centers can be
connected continuously...
Using
a network of... Community
Center web sites.
Short wave, am/fm
radio signals, faxes, telecommunications systems...
Or by
community television.
27. NOTE:
Regional and continental centers are set up...
The same way that local centers are started.
The only exception is that these centers are peopled...
By elected volunteers from local centers.
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These elected
volunteers operate and oversee...
Regional and continental centers...
For short
periods of time.
Some... Volunteers from
local centers...
Should
volunteer to work at regional and continental centers...
And on projects... And problem solving
teams.
Along with helping
to operate...
Regional or continental centers... Periodically.
28.
REGIONAL and...
CENTERS on ALL CONTINENTS...
Can be
part of a local center to begin with.
When the need and
support become comfortable...
The regional and continental centers...
Can be housed
in separate spaces.
Combined centers
should be housed together only for a short period of time...
During the start up
stage... Of a new... Regional or
On Continent Centers.
To open a
Regional
or Continental
Community Center...
Follow the suggestions for setting up centers...
In
the different sections of this...
Handbook and the Community Guidebook.
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About the...
the
THREE KINDS OF COMMUNITY CENTERS
&
the GLOBAL GOALS of CENTERS AROUND the WORLD
There are
THREE kinds of Community Centers
1.
Local Community Centers
2.
Regional Community Centers
3.
and Community Centers on Continents
Called... Continental Community Centers
Each kind of center
should operate using...
The suggested ideas
for setting up a center found in this...
One Global
Community Guidebook & the...
Earth Repair
Handbook 2000 and beyond. @ One Global Community . com
NOTE: This should be done
to keep all centers similar.
1.
The FIRST and most important is the LOCAL Community Center.
These centers ought
to be located in every...
Neighborhood,
village, town, tribe and city... Around the world.
2.
The
SECOND kind of centers are REGIONAL Community Centers.
These centers
should be set up to cover 2,500 to 150,000 square miles...
Or for a single
city.
These centers
should be set up as needed to connect...
Local centers with
each other.
Regional centers
are also for coordinating...
Volunteers,
information, material goods and projects...
Between local
centers and continental centers.
Regional centers
should not dominate...
Or control local or
continental centers or volunteers.
3.
The
THIRD kind of centers are CONTINENTAL Community Centers
These centers ought
to be located on each island country...
And on all continents.
There should be as
many on any continent as needed.
These continental
centers are for connecting...
Local and regional
centers together...
And are for
information referral and resource exchange between...
Local, Regional
and... All... Continental
Centers.
Continental
Community Centers...
Work to solve
global situations...
And can set up problem
solving teams...
And help people,
countries and community centers around the world...
Work and connect,
together.
Continental centers
should not dominate or control regional or local centers or volunteers.
The three kinds
of centers are a simple, common sense approach.
For all nations
populations, to combine their efforts...
To solve problems and
create projects...
That promote a more peaceful planet.
A way for people, to help people and communities...
Around
the world.
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This
common sense
Global Network of Community Centers
Approach...
Then
filters around the world.
To the individual,
neighborhood center...
Whose goal is to
solve problems on the local, personal level.
Click to see
GLOBAL CENTERS MAP PAGE ( under construction )
Location of ALL...
Three kinds of Community Centers
NOTES:
Continental,
regional or local centers are not to...
Control or govern
any other local, regional or continental centers or volunteers.
Once the idea of a
non control, non governing...
Kind
of shared world network.
Of Community
Centers is established.
We will look back
on separate governments... On the earth...
Controlled by a few
wealthy individuals or families... As archaic...
And problems
created by a few dominating personalities will disappear.
And... Once these problems
have disappeared.
We will realize
that all the people... As equal Earth
Citizens.
Are capable of
managing their own affairs locally...
As well as the
affairs of the Planet/World/Earth.
More about... Regional and
Continental...
Community
Centers.
Ideas for... Volunteers from local centers...
Who volunteer for projects...
Or help set up,
operate and/or oversee Regional or Continental center.
Regional and
Continental Centers can
be housed simply...
In a small space to begin...
As
the needs of Earth Citizens grow... So
should the centers.
Volunteers working
at regional and continental centers...
Can be housed in
the center itself... Or local volunteers
living in the Area...
Can house visiting and working volunteers in their homes.
Camping out and
hotels... Are other
alternatives for visiting EC volunteers...
Working on regional
and world projects.
Three elected
representatives... From each local
centers...
Should get
together and set up
and operate regional and continental centers.
Volunteers
from local centers can also... Set up and work on regional work projects...
And volunteer
for problem
solving teams.
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Suggestions Only... Evolving.
Three people from all...
Local centers ought to be on committees
To
oversee regional and continental centers.
They should visit
these centers...
Once every full moon...
( This is simply a
recognizable object by people around the planet...
Setting a time/date
to get together... It has NO other connotations )
Making sure that
the regional and continental centers and volunteers...
Fill the needs of
those they serve.
Elected volunteers
from local centers...
Should also oversee
world problem solving teams...
And regional or
continental work projects...
Making sure they
are for filling the needs of all people and communities...
Equally.
Elected volunteers
operating and representing their centers...
Working at regional
and continental centers...
Should only serve
in this capacity...
For not more than
one year at a time.
Changing jobs
frequently...
Gives many individuals the opportunity to help others...
With their individual or their communities ideas...
On the regional and
continental levels.
All
Three Kinds of Community Centers...
All
with... web
sites...
All
Connected Together.
Can write about.. And exchange...
Continental and
regional happenings... And ideas...
the
Three Kinds of Community Centers
Are
designed to help...
And
oversee governments... That are now in existence.
Separate
governments located independently around the world...
Can not be expected to solve
problems that effect all...
Earth citizens... The planet...
and the global village...
As a whole interconnected unit.
Local Community Centers...
Should elect people
from their center...
And form groups to
oversee each part... Of all governments.
These elected
representatives from the three kinds of centers...
Should report back
to all earth citizens and the new United Nation concept...
Their findings
about all governments...
And government
agencies rating them on a ( 1-10 ) scale...
With one being the
best.
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These
representatives from each center should make their reports...
Available to all
earth citizens.
Through all
Community Center web sites... And news
medias...
And to each and
every Community Center... On Earth.
In this way all
people of the planet can have a direct effect on...
And can create a way to protest
or promote...
Any policies... Of all
governments... Good or Bad.
This is another
function of a world and local neighborhood network of
Community information referral and resource exchange
Centers
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EXAMPLES OF WHAT A WORLD NETWORK OF
COMMUNITY CENTERS
CAN DO LIST.
Add
Your Own Ideas to this... Growing... Listing
Search team for
leaking pollution
Ozone information
Planting trees
Helping sick
people
Reading to shut-ins
Identifying greed
problems
A meeting place to
get you in touch with people doing similar things & projects
Around the Planet
Earth
Acquiring land and
building homes for everyone on earth
Alternatives to
rain forest destruction
Gardening
Water testing
Sharing things
Answering questions
A place for kids
The elderly helping
the young
The young helping
the elderly
Time to spare ?
Answer the phones
at Your center
Bummed out,
Depressed, Go to your local
center and do something
Prison work and
reform
Out of food... Connect with food
Problems solving
groups for all Addictions
Including drugs, alcohol, greed, power and others
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