A: Organize within your collective:
- Decide on the theme/general idea of what you are going to do.
- Timeline - Set deadlines (by counting backwards from when you need to be done) and help keep each other on track.
- Break down tasks and roles - Discuss who is responsible for what and when. We organize by deciding who will be the bottom-liner for:
- Communication with conference
- Coordinating childcare volunteers
- Coordinating programming & workshops
- Meetings - Have meetings and check-ins. You may want to have:
- Bi-weekly meetings. We tend to meet more often as the event grows near.
- When in-person meetings aren’t feasible, commit to phone or email check-ins.
- Check lists and to-do lists - Send-out notes.
- Manifestita - Write up a paragraph or more about what you are doing and why. You can tailor this statement in different ways over time and use it for: media, propaganda, outreach and programming.
- Programming and activities – Brainstorm and plan activities and workshops if applicable.
- Schedule - Create schedules with slots to fill-in for volunteer shifts; any programming or workshops; and who is bottom-lining what segment of the main event. Note: more on scheduling and bottom-lining in Notes below.
- Embed - Continue to discuss how to embed the values of the event into childcare and radical childcare values into the larger event:
- activities for youth on their own level in the theme of the larger event
- ways youth can be more visible, such as a children’s parade or a mural/
- group art project
- youth leadership/tasks/input
- points of intersection where all-ages can experience positive time together based on values/skills of larger event.
- encourage ways that everyone can get involved; experience some of the programming/environment; and learn intergenerational skills of liberation.
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