Time/Date/Connection: 6:30 pm, 4/12/23, by zoom

Attending: Mark Bussolini, Cathy Sandstrom. Linda Secretan, Reverend Sara, Jim Bigelow

Agenda:

• Plate Partner
  • 2022 – 2023
    • May –  Meszko Scholarship
    • June – The Community Center  – Ahley Newman
    • July – PIFF
    • August – Brown Like Me – Racial Justice Ministry
  • 2023 – 2024
    • Nominees:
      1. Corpus Christi House Breakfast
      2. The Refugee Speaker’s Bureau,
      3. Living Independence Network Corp (LINC),
      4. Idaho Museum of International Diaspora│
      5. Boise Period Project,
      6. Giraffe Laugh
      7. Boise Pride Festival,
      8. Agency for New Americans,
      9. Jesse Tree
      10. Boa Ogoi Cultural & Interpretive Center –
      11. Planned Parenthood,
      12. Bare Roots Collection
      13. “Add the Words, Idaho”,
      14. American Red Cross of Idaho and East Oregon
      15. Idaho Harm Reduction,
      16. “Reclaim Idaho,”
      17. Boise Kitchen Collective,
      18. ,Idaho Abortion Rights Mutual Aid,
      19. ,”Boise Period Project,”
      20. “Idaho Native Plant Society
      21. “Boise Mutual Aid,”
      22. ,”Canyon County Mutual Aid
      23. “The Boise Brickhouse
      24. “Idaho immigrant Resource Alliance,
      25. Boise Bicycle Project
  • There are too many nominees that don’t meet the criteria
    • for example, Reclaim Idaho is not a 5013c,
    • some are not local
    • some are not even non-profits but web pages for people to collaborate
    • many do not have mission statements and rationale for being a plate partner
  • Decided to orient the voting around 8 justice areas,
    • people vote for one from each category and
    • have at least 2 organizations in each group
    • This avoids the need to rebalance partners to get justice area coverage.
  • Voting Form — vote for one from each category
    • Racial Justice
      • Duck Valley
      • Brown like me
      • Black History Museum
    • Reproductive Justice
      • Idaho Abortion Rights
      • Planned Parenthood
    • Refugee  & Immigrant
      • Bare Roots Collective
      • Refugee Speaker’s Bureau
      • PODER
    • Climate
      • CCL
      • Draw Down
      • Interfaith Power & Light
    • LGBTQ+
      • Add the Words
      • The Community Center
      • Boise Trans-collective  — Reverend Sara will provide information
    • Housing/Hunger
      • CATCH
      • Interfaith Sanctuary
      • Jesse Tree
    • Women/Family/Youth Support
      • WCA
      • giraffe laugh
      • Boise Bicycle Project
    • Disability Justice & Mental Health
      • Suicide Hot Line
      • LINC
    • Give us your feedback on the new format.
  • Need to have a conversation in the council about how to use the plate partner process. do this in September
  • Next Meetings
    • May 3 – finalize plate partners.
    • Sep 6
  • Need to have a planning retreat — Rev. Sara
    • social justice “just deserts”, 
    • 1/2 day meeting w/ deserts