The Greensboro HIVE

The Organizing Committee (OC) meets once a week to manage the operation of The HIVE, review space reservation requests, and handle any business that arises during the operation of the space. All decisions are made by consensus. The OC is open to anyone who wants to come and get involved.

Present: Chelsea, Kathryn, Jonathan, Liz, Isabell, Kymber

Drop-in hours
Drop-in hours appear to be going well. Jonathan will make a flyer for the neighborhood to announce drop-in hours. He’ll also talk to Addie’s about holding a key that volunteers could borrow to open up. We talked about the need for some kind of manual for volunteers; Isabell suggested that in addition to the manual we have a logbook so volunteers could report incidents and information that came in during their shift, and also a volunteer sign-in sheet so we know who was here at what times. Isabell said that and she and Brenda would start drafting a volunteer manual and logbook during their Wednesday shift.

Kids’ summer activities
Liz said that it would be nice to have more things than the computers to offer kids during drop-in hours, and wondered if we could build on the good work already being done by the Art’s Cool and BikeMe!, and the soon-to-begin reading club.

Kymber said that she is in the process of being certified to teach children’s yoga (her certification will cover ages 2 to teenager) and would like to offer some free yoga sessions starting in late July. She is thinking about mornings and perhaps evenings.

Isabell suggested talking to Molly Stouten, who just received a grant from F4DC to plan and create a community mural. Molly wants to involve neighborhood kids in the process, and might be interested in doing some things at the HIVE.

Events

• Friday, June 20, 4:30: A public speaking training for people who want to speak out at a June 23 school board special meeting on African-American males in the school system. The training will be offered by the Speaking Center at UNC-G; they have suggested that they make themselves available for other trainings on persuasive speaking, given on an ad hoc basis as things come up in the community. The series would be called “Speaking for a Change.” The training this week will be held on Friday, June 20 at 4:30, the same time as the food giveaway, but we agreed that we could use the bookshelves as a room divider and accommodate both activities.
• Saturday, June 28, 9:30 to 1:30: Raise the Wage sign painting party to prepare for the Fourth of July parade. In addition, the Raise the Wage coordinating committee meets the first and third Friday of the month, 11:30-1:00.
• Jonathan is working on establishing a weekly family-oriented movie night on Wednesdays at 8:00 in the parking lot (we will need to figure out how to temporarily disable the motion sensor light—even better, it would be nice if we could figure out how to turn off the parking lot street light). Jonathan has sent out an email asking for movie suggestions; to send in your suggestions email Jonathan at zafamos@gmail.com.

BikeMe!
The BikeMe! Collective has been stretched thin on volunteers lately and has had occasional trouble couple of weeks opening up at the posted times. The coordinating committee brainstormed ways the HIVE could help out. Kathryn will check with Sue and Kyla to see if they would be interested in providing the Wednesday and Sunday drop-in hours volunteers with a list of people who are authorized by BikeMe! to open up the shed. The Wednesday and Sunday volunteers (Isabell, Brenda and Kathryn at this point) could be given access to the HIVE’s copy of the shed key, and give it to whichever person on the BikeMe! list shows up first. In addition, Isabell offered to brainstorm with Sue on Wednesday to see if there are other ways the HIVE could help.

Library
The library project is close to completion. When it is set up drop-in volunteers will be asked to help with explaining the procedure, and re-shelving books.