Answer from a Community Center...

Some where on earth.

Answer:

Help is On Hand... And in " standby " mode.

Our area is pretty well off this year...

We have teachers, health care personnel and volunteers...

Available to work elsewhere.

A country's defensive posture is such that they have available...

Fighter aircraft also known as... Hunger fighters.

That can be used, to drop in... Food supplies...

That are needed immediately.

Another countries army has cargo planes available...

To assist with transporting building materials, home building battalions...

Food growing equipment, Community Center volunteers, trades people...

Laborers and teachers for helping 1,950,000 people.

Help Needed... Request...

 From another... Community Center somewhere.

We had little rain during the last growing season...

Our area does not have enough food to last through the winter.

Answer... From a Community Center...

Somewhere Else.

Our area was blessed with rain and sun.

We will be conserving food individually and together...

So that we can send your area our surplus.

The following year the situation could be reversed...

And the help can be returned... Or recycled.

All this and more can be done through the...

Local, regional and continental world network...

Of Community Centers...

And volunteers using their filing systems.

All Center volunteers... Around the world should always be in a...

" standby mode "

Ready to help others locally, regionally and around the planet...

At a moments notice.

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CONTRIBUTIONS OF MONEY OR MATERIALS

Community Centers ought to be self supporting...

With no dues or fees for services rendered.

Community Center expenses ought to be kept to a minimum...

And can be offset by bartering, exchanging donations of time, money and materials...

By both, those helping... And those, being helped.

Each Community Center should never endorse, finance or lend the center name...

To any related facility or outside enterprise...

Lest, problems, of money, property or prestige divert the centers...

And or volunteers...

From the primary purpose of helping others.

All center's new ideas, reports, documentation about projects...

Financial books and records ought to be maintained with an...

"Open Book"

Policy. For anyone to examine... Anytime...

And also available to share with other centers around the world.

Community Centers should also have a...

"No Secrets"

Policy

Because... Secrets are the Great Enemy...

Of Community, Centers, Democracies and Love.

Paying bills in advance is a good way to eliminate...

Keeping cash on the premises of Community Centers.

No cash ought to be kept in the center to eliminate the temptation of...

"unauthorized borrowing".

A treasurer should be voted in for short periods of time

To oversee the open books of all centers.

Fund raising events such as bake sales, community farmers markets, arts and crafts...

Dances, events of all kinds, community meals, non professional spots, etc...

Are encouraged.

Centers should operate on a many small donation...

As opposed to a few large donations policy.

A person helping another person through a center...

May not get helped in return directly from... The person whom they helped.

It may be that the help, returned... Will come in another form.

From someone not yet met...

In another field of endeavor... Or in ways that the person who helped out...

Never imagined... When he or she originally got involved...

With the Center... And helping others.

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In other words...

What goes around... Comes around.

And can have a ( Great ) positive effect on humanity.

Using the Community Center networks... For helping each other...

As the connecting place.

Anyone who wants to...

Can open a Community Center... Anywhere.

This includes students of any age... Local and world known music groups...

Towns, villages, cities, tribes... Foundations... Individuals or others.

These individuals or groups who have space to share...

Volunteers on hand... Can get people together...

And hold events to gather resources or make and receive...

Donations to start Your...

Neighborhood Community Centers.

Donations of all kinds... Will help eliminate the initial down payment for...

Telephones, Setting up a filing systems etc...

And a home base of operations.

Eventually a center will have enough people involved...

To maintain and support itself.

Donations of land, buildings...

Material goods and supplies.

For rebuilding individual lives and communities...

Should be accepted at a center... Only if... They have no strings attached...

And a... One for All... All for One... Attitude...

And do not effect or influence the decision making process...

Or the overseeing of Your Community Center.

Individual companies, non profit organizations or businesses of any kind...

Who find themselves getting customers, promotion of their group or making a profit...

From referrals, coming from any...

Community information referral and resource exchange Center

Should voluntarily contribute to the center's operational expenses.

And/or they can also donate or sponsor projects that are in progress...

And/or planned at Your Community Centers.

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No mandatory dues or fees should ever be demanded.

But... Groups and businesses can be approached for donations of any kind.

These donations from groups or businesses can be a big help...

Offsetting the... Desired... Small expenses...

Of maintaining a center.

Donations or volunteers should never influence the referral of information...

To any one company or group.

Centers should give out information on ( All ) subjects

To any person who inquires about ( Any ) subject.

Community Centers are not designed to take away from any businesses...

Or to eliminate using money as a means of exchanging goods.

Centers should be designed to help people and exchange goods...

In new ways.

Groups of people using the center should...

Form committees...

To find new ways for people to get wages...

From the help... Volunteers offer to perform...

Especially for the unemployed in a community.

Some people volunteering to help fix up each others homes, neighborhoods...

Garden plots, roads and bridges or businesses and infer structures of all kinds...

May not need to receive payment or any of the necessities of life for work performed.

However, those people who do need any or all of the necessities of life...

Should be paid or share goods, housing etc.

In new ways...

For the unemployed volunteers... Work performed.

A person looking for employment... Should also list the basic things...

That the money from a job would normally be spent on.

In the community centers, unemployment part of the filling system

Through sharing things including food, living space and material goods...

At the centers.

The amount of cash money needed for work performed can be reduced.

If there is a need... Hours Volunteered... Can be...

"Deposited" or "Credited"

To an individual's...

"Help Account"

Individuals helped can have hours...

"Withdrawn" or "Added"

To or from... His or her own...

"Help Received Account"

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Projects that help neighboring... Communities

Towns, cities, tribes and countries.

Can be put in town, city, tribe and countries...

"Help Given Accounts"

When needed... So they may be helped in return...

When/If... Needs arises...

Communities, towns, cities and countries...

"Help Received Account"

Can be maintained by the center...

NOTE:

Help... labor paid for... and volunteer hours... Ought to be mostly donated...

To keep expenses to a minimum.

When Communities stop keeping track of...

The above accounts...

When people and community sharing...

Is the way of life...

Our planet and Its people...

Should be in much better shape...

With very, very, very, very, very, few... Or...

No Wars...

At All.

(See Credit, Debit and Bartering Pg. 141 )

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MEETING AGENDA

Guidelines for Community Center meetings

Daily, weekly, monthly...

Whatever your ( Community Center ) group requires.

Meetings ought to be open to anyone.

Individuals ought to be encouraged to state their views...

Without being interrupted.

No person should be excluded from any meeting for any reason...

With the exception of disrupting a meeting.

A volunteer should be elected to record the minutes of meetings.

Meetings can be audio recorded or video taped...

For people to listen to or view at home...

Or for people who could not attend...

And/or for people to go over the agenda being discussed at a later time.

Some topics discussed can be shared in this way with other centers... anywhere.

For in depth researching and discussion...

Of specific ideas that will require voted approval by centers / committees...

Splinter groups...

Open to all interested in the topic... Should conduct separate meetings.

SUGGESTED AGENDA ONLY

Do what your centers group votes for... As Your agenda.

A. Read introduction suggestions from the... One Global Community...

( Handbook or Guidebook ) for direction... I You want to.

   Or write your own centers... "Guideline for Your center".

B. Read principles and philosophy as a direction to follow...

   Keeping in mind... "the spirit of community"

C. Have a time of silence and/or prayer to guide the group with good thoughts

   For those who wish to participate.

D. Old business. Evaluate center's goals and effectiveness.

   Discuss ongoing projects.

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E. New business...

   Have an open discussion about new ideas and opinions to help each other.

F. Have a meeting with an open discussion on ( any topic ) that helps others...

   Or about problems that effect your center, neighborhood or people...

   On the local, regional and on the global levels.

G. Share information and/or whatever else is required...

   To fill the needs of all earth citizens using the center.

H. Minutes of the meeting can be put on Your Community Centers...

   Web site... and/or

   Mailed out in a newsletter or newspaper, broadcast on radio or television...

   For shut Ins or people who couldn't get to the meeting.

We... Working Together... Can Change the World... In A Positive Way