*This page is currently under construction
Branding and Communications:
- Create a website for Unitarian Universalist Community Cooperatives
- Create a logo for UUCC
- Maintain a database of contacts
- Maintain regular updates to constituents
- Develop Literature and media that tells our story
- Maintain an archive
Documentation:
- Maintain an accessible, updated manual
- Create clear filing system and record keeping that’s secure, accessible, and transparent
- Develop a policy about transparency
Spiritual Nourishment and Religious Identity:
- Regular Worship
- Shared spiritual practice of the board
- Articulate UUCC Vision Statement
- Articulate shared grounding in values and traditions of Unitarian Universalism
- Strengthen relationship with Unitarian Universalist Association
- Continue conversations about Unitarian Universalist Identity
Partners and Networks:
- Continue to define and formalize relationships with Unitarian Universalist and Co-op organizations
- Foster relevant institutional partnerships for UUCC and its communities
Extended Community:
- Create a structure or title for formalized non-housemate relationships
- Nurture multiple entry points for participation
- Create a database of contacts
Financial Development
- Successful refinancing of LSC
- Build an allied lender base
- Specific financial plan for each property
- Clear and sustainable financial structure for multiple houses
- Specific funding plan for each property
Skill-Building and Innovation
- Solid growth and development of LSC (house systems and property management)
- Support skill development of membership
Property Growth
- Own and steward multiple properties in New England
- Purchase one to two properties
(At the strategic planning, we came up with the category of “intentionally selected and well-supported staff,” but at our UUCC board retreat, we didn’t agree on any goals around that, except to think further about it)
Governance Structure
- Maintain board manual
- Increase clarity of role of board and board members
- Formalize rights and responsibilities of membership
- Increase capacity, efficiency, and sustainability of board
- Write UUCC Vision Statement
- Think intentionally about staff
Diversity
- Anti-oppression resources
- Work towards diversity of demographics, age, family structure, race, economic status, and ethnicity by partnering with diverse communities
- Ccultivate and initiate anti-oppressive learning and space
