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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">That's right Carlton.
It will always be an uphill battle -- but they could lighten the
load a bit. If anyone reading this has a good example of a
project with potential to bring in new members but which would
probably not find a place in the current ICANN funding boxes,
please send them over. I have a couple, but could use something
non-North America based.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thanks</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Marita</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/4/2019 3:34 PM, Carlton Samuels
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<div dir="auto">Well worthy of our collective consideration!
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<div dir="auto">Because as it now happens, what we built is only
narrowing the base from where we expect to recruit.</div>
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<div dir="auto">We know well the challenges we face. Finding
volunteers to do the policy work at the level we would find
competitive to other well-resourced parts of the community is
like looking for the goose that lays the golden egg on a
needle in a haystack. </div>
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<div dir="auto">We have to cast far and wide. And for every
thousand we reach if we're really lucky and all the stars
align we will harvest what, maybe three!</div>
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<div dir="auto">And, if we harvest three, I'm prepared to
declare victory and go home. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, 2:23 pm
Marita Moll, <<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"> <font face="Times
New Roman, Times, serif">My thoughts about our pitch
to the board later on this week re: the evolution of
the MS model. We can only expect to have 15 min on
this so am keeping it fairly narrowly focussed:<br>
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<p><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">Our focus would be
on improving our ability to grow the MS volunteer
community, increasing diversity, increasing
participation. The goal has to be to build a system that
can attract and retain volunteers in multiple locations
and local contexts who can engage at multiple levels.
There is no one size that fits all. In this challenge,
the community must lead. That is where the expertise is,
that's where the local knowledge is and where the
solutions will come from. We need to innovate, take some
risks and think outside of the box. </font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:16pt"
size="4">Good theory, but in reality, there are lots of
hurdles -- it is not so easy to get adequate funds
moving in the direction of innovative community outreach
programs. --- offer a couple of real examples.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:16pt"
size="4"><b>The ask: In the interests of bringing more
people into our communities to deal with the ever
increasing workload, will the Board formally recognize
and encourage efforts to innovate in this challenge of
growing our community -- by lowering some of the
barriers.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:16pt"
size="4">Marita<br>
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