Annual Meeting
When you create a blog, or a forum post, or a group posting on the website, you have the opportunity to select a group that the post is relevant to. The idea is that the members of these groups will automatically get an email that let's them know what was posted, and gives a direct link to the post.
This group is a ROOTS Workgroup, which means that it identifies itself around a particular body of work.
Clear Creek Festival
Green ROOTS at the AM
As the Green Team Leader for this year's Annual Meeting, I'm honored and excited about the opportunity to help make the event as sustainable as possible. The Alternate ROOTS website now includes philosophical and how-to information about what it means to be green.
Rent our Technology: making the technology ROOTs has developed available to the system.
So this is a hunch, but it's an educated one. The technology that was recently created for ROOTS (integrated website, membership, registration, directory and development systems) might be something that could potentially be very valuable to other organizations. If this is true for you, read on.
It would be in the best interests of an organization with a mission like ROOTS to facilitate that technology becoming available cost effectively to ROOTS organizations.
There are a couple of different scenarios and business models that would support something like that.
Notes from last night's call
Thanks to all of you who were able to be on the call last night. Please find attached the notes that I took.
Next call will be Thursday, January 28 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Call-in: 218-339-4300, PW:
327186#
In the meantime, please be thinking about and talking to others we should be recruiting to serve together with us.
Cheers,
Shannon
National Dance Project Accepting Applications for Production Grants
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=271300019
National Dance Project Accepting Applications for Production Grants
Posted on October 29, 2009Deadline: March 2, 2009 (Round 1 Application)Administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts,
the National Dance Project provides a system of support for
contemporary dance by supporting the creation (production) and
engagement (touring) of dance in the United States and beyond.
NDP's production grants fund the creation of new dance work that
Basic English Lessons for ROOTers…
Basic English Lessons for ROOTers…
Many ROOTS members are not writers as their first discipline, but we communicate every day through email, proposals, etc. Please take a few minutes to review the most frequent violations of the English language spotted in ROOTS communiqués.
Its – is a possessive. For example, “its place,” “its function,” “its proper usage…”
WonderRoot Launches Literary and Visual Art Magazine Project
WonderRoot Launches Literary and Visual Art Magazine Project
Loose Change: a literary collection of community voices
Atlanta, GA
WonderRoot, a non-profit organization located in Reynoldstown announces the launch of a new literary and visual art magazine called Loose Change. Loose Change is a publication that strives to facilitate a supportive artistic environment for those who seek to express themselves in the world of literary and visual arts. We are devoted to allowing participants to explore their craft, allowing range of language and medium while participating in an evolving dialogue. We are committed to being a nurturing theater of learning for those who seek aesthetic growth.
October 9, 2009
Jo Carson, a founding member of Alternate ROOTS, is in the midst of a pitched battle with colon cancer.
Jo has been a self-supporting artist for more than 30 years. Since quality, affordable health insurance is extremely difficult for independent artists to obtain, the insurance coverage Jo has is utterly insufficient to her current need – her policy will cover her surgery, but not the extensive chemotherapy and radiation she is currently under-going.
You can help by making a donation through ROOTS to Jo's Medical Expenses Campaign. Please click here to make that important contribution.
Donate Air Miles to ROOTS
Hello ROOTERS,
If you attended the Annual Meeting, you may remember that among other suggestions that could help ROOTS, we suggested that members could donate frequent flyer miles. This would allow us to do the necessary travel to raise funds for programs and services, and save money in our budget!
Please contact us at the office if you or someone you know has extra miles you'd like to share.
Thanks for your continued support.
