March 25, 2024

Welcome, Question of the Day

• Announcements
• Begin workplan development
• Time to review reflection document
• Discuss additional activity details/considerations and any new proposed activities
• Activity prioritization
• Identify lead, support, and inform roles
• Loose ends & next steps

Meeting Notes

Question for the day: If you were to go on a game show reality show, which one would you go on?

Announcements

• Everyone should have received a calendar invite for a second monthly meeting
• Got permission to record meetings and use AI to generate transcripts going forward
• Openfields to reach out to each of the partners to talk about the timing of their financial support to participate in MCFR
• Megan – MFH wants to get feedback to inform and optimize MFH’s practices in funding partners. Also know that a one-size-fits-all structure does not work for supporting partners
• Bold Ventures and Darius Rucker will be sitting in on more CEC meetings move forward

Meeting Notes

• We will be talking through the document that was sent out on Friday
• Created a Miro board version of the document
• We are not doing a fist-five today. The goal is to build consensus through the process of identifying activities the group agrees are important and decide how to move them forward

Link to Miro board here: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVKePbHiw=/?share_link_id=657304121202

Discussion after “Roles” excercise:

• Leah and Megan to co-lead landscape analysis
• Utilizing a student as well
• Megan Every needs to participate and support systems change, relationship mapping, and theory of change development
• Amy – Yes, being “lead” or “support” on these responsibility for designing a collective process for doing these activities
• Amy – There is no launch event. How do folks feel about that?
• Kimberly – We do not want to put pressure on ourselves and set goals at this stage
• Jessi – Is there opportunity to get folks together after the listening session?
• Leah – Darius had proposed a similar event,
• Kimberly – That would fall under the listening session activity
• Chris – Let listening session participants know that there will be a follow-up opportunity to hear the findings of the listening activities so that they know their perspective was heard
• Meghan – Listening session participants may ask how they can get involved? Is there a way to pick up additional stakeholders as we go through the listening sessions rather than having them wait until the end to hear the results?
• We should be aware of the budget, because some folks will get paid for participating whereas if they recruit other folks, those incentives could run out.

Next Steps

• Openfields to share notes on each activity with activity leads
• Activity leads convene groups before next meeting to: set SMART goals, develop a work plan and a timeline, identify additional support they’d like to have from Openfields or other parties
• These DO NOT need to become working groups, but are intended to get the ball rolling
• Openfields is happy to join meetings, but that is up to the activity teams
• Jessi – If Openfields is not there, we need to all agree to capture notes and key decisions that were made
• For activities with no lead signed up (Systems Mapping, Relationship Mapping, Theory of Change) Openfields can take the lead on drafting certain approaches for folks to give feedback on