In attendance: Joanne, Dale, Astra, Crystina, ollie
Agenda:
- Events
- PUP on Hiatus (mb Sept return?)
- Community BBQ at Fridge Sat June 24 12-3pm
- Volunteer Roles
- Fridge Cleaning
- Maintenance
- Communications (e-newsletters, posts on Slack & social media, posters, etc)
PUP
- PUP is on indefinite hiatus
- May PUP was successful, but Joanne and ollie made the decision to call a pause since the main Fridge regular cleanings were not being filled, causing issues for our host
- Dale, Terry, Joanne, and maybe others in for continuing PUP after a pause – tentatively returning September. We are hoping to gather more people passionate about continuing PUP so a. There is less for the ‘lead’ organizer to do each PUP and b. The ‘lead’ organizer ‘hat’ can be passed around between several folks, so no one is doing it repeatedly months on end.
Community BBQ
- Saturday, June 24, 12-3pm at the Fridge – 515 Lawrence Avenue
- group of volunteers approached us wanting to help feed unhoused neighbors.
- Ollie gave them the options of setting up at Tent City (possibly coordinating with Solidarity Sunday folks), or having the BBQ at the Fridge proper, similar to what we did for the 2nd Fridge Bday
- their coordinator chose the Fridge as a prefered location
- they are organizing the BBQs, supplying all the hot dogs and buns (~300 totaly, probably including vegan and GF options), and coordinating 6-7 volunteers to run the BBQs, etc.
- Fridge collective members are encouraged to join! We don’t need BBQ’s covered, but it’d be great to have folks participate in the community bonding and to share more about the Fridge with anyone who comes by. Ollie might be doing facepaint?
- Ollie asked if the $200 we get monthly from Safeway should go towards drinks for this event, or to periodically stocking the Fridge.
- There was Consensus that periodically stocking the Fridge with water/electrolyte drinks/juice would be a better use of those funds
- going to add recommendation for people to donate water/electrolyte drinks/juice, if they want to bring stuff for the BBQ
Volunteer Roles
- Cleaning, both Daily and sporadic!
- We went through the cleaning process in person, giving the Fridge a thorough wipe down.
- Bit.ly/kcf-clean for anyone who wants to see it written out
- when brought up that for sharps (such as glass or needles), calling Downtown Kelowna is what they recommend – [insert phone # here]
- group discussed that it would be helpful to have this number posted at the Fridge, along with the overall cleaning steps
- Where to dispose of garbage if volunteers cannot take it home was discussed – currently there is no clear option. When Ollie spoke to Lisa after the meeting, she recommended we contact Waste Connections Canada to see how they might be able to help.
- We went through the cleaning process in person, giving the Fridge a thorough wipe down.
- Maintenance
- Freezer door/drawer
- Joanne reached out to Lyndon about the part needed for the lower freezer to be a drawer again – he is finding the part online
- Would be useful to have a more fleshed out maintenance team/process for sharing when maintenance is needed
- Astra would like to be a part of the maintenance team, and will be tagged in Slack when the freezer part comes in so ze can be a part of that fix
- Freezer door/drawer
- Communications
- e-newsletters, posts to Slack, posts to social media, email/message responding
- Ollie shared that having some company and input would be helpful for the e-newsletter especially
- Alicia and Lauren are both stepping up to be a part of website updating; meeting to happen this week between them and Ollie to discuss particulars
- Ollie is working on some general Fridge posters that are in B&W so can be cheaply printed
- Donations
- Dale brought up a discussion she had with a friend, about putting a donation bin for non-perishable food in their condo complex to make it easy for people to donate. She is wondering if that is in line with the Fridge – there was consensus that it is!
- Would be helpful to have a sign with information about the Fridge, so people can know more about us and where that food is going to
- Dale brought up a discussion she had with a friend, about putting a donation bin for non-perishable food in their condo complex to make it easy for people to donate. She is wondering if that is in line with the Fridge – there was consensus that it is!
- Grants
- Crystina filled us in about ongoing grant applications. Many have not been available to us because we are a mutual aid group, and they require non-profit/registered charity status.
- She has had meetings with Community Futures to see if they might be able to accept grants on behalf of us
- this is possible, CF is currently internally navigating if we are a good fit for them
- if this does happen, it would not be a lump sum deposited to us – rather, they would get the grant, and we would provide specific purposes it was going towards, submitting receipts for such to get refunded
- Joanne has heard that Lake Country Community Fridge has been getting grants – Crystina is going to reach out to them to see which grants are working for them, any tips and tricks they might be able to share with us
- Crystina filled us in about ongoing grant applications. Many have not been available to us because we are a mutual aid group, and they require non-profit/registered charity status.
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