Our community group, the North Shore Community and Social Services Inc. is a co-ordinating council for community groups that aims to enhance and promote the community development process and empower community groups to better serve their communities. It was formed in 1972. It is one of 55 Councils of Social Service affiliated to the New Zealand Council of Social Service based in Wellington. They work like an information hub and connect the other groups together.
They provide services like community development advising, they create publications and information resources, they organize workshops, seminars and keep the information flow trough printed and emailed newsletters.
We met two amazing ladies who make all these things happen: Lesley Farmer executive officer and Melinda Greshoff resource coordinator.
We had a long and very inspirational conversation. We had the opportunity to get to know this fantastic organization, their needs and the challenges they face. We realized that we really can help them with so many things … we wish the challenge would be at least 4 weeks.
It is very motivating and inspiring to know that our help can effect all the other community groups as well through the North Shore Community and Social Services.
We started to form a brief, and after the meeting Kevin and me sat down on the beach to put together the first to do lists. Can’t wait to meet again on the briefing session to define all the details on Thursday.
Lesley Farmer executive officer, Kyle Meszaros from the OpenEyes team, Melinda Greshoff resource coordinator and Kevin Cooper also with Open Eyes
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Kevin and Kyle breezed up to our offices on Monday with enough energy and enthusiasm to completely revamp our whole organisation! Fantastic!!!!
I have set the office a challenge - to explore some new technologies each day (this was inspired by the evening workshop with ymedia) So, Enas and I have very pretty igoogle sights now (that was yesterday) and today - BLOGGING! This is the first time I have even visited a blog site, never mind added to it. I am still fiddling around all the google administration with passwords and usernames, but hopefully I will be successful in posting this first blog comment. Sorry I can't make it to the Thursday meeting, but I am looking forward to working with Kyle and Kevin.
hey, glad you enjoyed our linguistics. Love your blog best looking one to date... we'll have to do something about that! ;)
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