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This last month has been a very exciting one out here in Vancouver, as it has been chock full of workshops, networking meetings, and the development of new partnerships.

On January 14th we had our first networking meeting, or Youth Jam. About 14 youth workers showed up from Vancouver Community Network, the city of vancouver, and several local non-profits and community centres. The meeting mostly took the form of different people talking about their organisations and what they planned on doing in the near future, in the hopes of finding ground for collaboration. Most importantly, we talked about how to use online tools to faccillitate collaboration in between the face to facemeetinging. all aorund it was a success, and our next meeting will be on March 10th.

Later in the week, I organised and facilitated my end of the B4B workshop with 9 enthusiastic participants from the Disability Resource Centre in richmond. Though it was a brutal 2 hour travel time (one way), the event was quite a success as the particpipants proved to love the use of webcams and headsets to communicate. However, i know that now the DRC is interested in followup with TIG, and currently i don;t know how to proceed with that.

I have been working a lot with the city's YouthPolitik program, and am helping out with a session on urban sustainability, and am helping to plan the activation phaswe of the project. That's excitiing because i have been able to work in TIG's GTA's to the activation phase of the project, and hopefully i will be able to integrate the online component so that participants can use the project pages in order to come up with their own projects, and possibly even apply for funding through them.

I also met up with a representative form the vancouver foundation, and found out about their youth philanthropy council grants which give up to $5000 for youth who come up with projects to improve theior copmmunity or foster psotive social change. Right now i hope to partner up with a gorup or org to use the gta's to come up with a project proposal, and then apply for funding. However, I have had so many troubles partnering up with groups to do workshops that i am kinda disheartended.

Which brings me to challenges. By far the greaterst one has been trying to organise a climate change worksahop. When i started out in september, i wsas told that Check Your Head in vancouver was excited to work through their sustainable schools program on a series of climate workshops. But every time i tried to get things off the gorund, they wouldn't comit, or act like it was the first time they were hearing about the project. In essence i wasted months trying to network with them. The pj got me in touch with the climate change youth coalition, and the envirnomental youth alliance, but in both cases they basically blew me off once i really came to them with a workshop proposal. In essence, it seems like all these other organisations are underfunded and suspicious of collaborating, because they think TIG and groups like us our trying to poach their networks for their own nefarious needs. Anyway, I have all but given up, b8ut i will continue to try.

Another problem has been to come up with a concrete goal for the network I have been developing.

And of course the ever present problem is how to translate offline acitvities into action on the tig site. I am lookin forard to the team meeting to hear about other people's strategies, cause this one has me kind of stumped.

February 7, 2008 | 5:56 PM Comments  0 comments

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