Editing revision 28 of Next Meeting

===Agenda Items=== # Feb 12 Speaker's Bureau Event # Youth Project: Next Step: "How can we help?" # Asking NSRAP for $100/mo for victuals. Lynn's notes below # Do we need, can we do, a committee for Health issues for interacting with Pride Health? # Plan upcoming months. Who was that with the story about going North and taking care of the polar bears? # Ditto for Housing? # Do we want to attend the CARP AGM in May? Cost $100 for a booth. Dan thinks we do. # Do we need a post office box? # Do we want to ask for donations? Use Dan's address for snail mail cheques? # Meetup Account: Alex is paying $180 CAD/year for ours (about $12/mo). He wants to stop and for us to pay for it. How do we figure out if it has value? # Anita: we were accidentally given information about prescription coverage https://www.innovicares.ca/en # Anita: I am hearing horror stories about the seniors complexes and the total disrespect of Elders in each...some WAY more than others and THEY are getting away with it because many have little choice. never mind the bedbugs. A mention maybe for this board...but can THEY do anything...and if not who can?? # Cookbook project: do it again! # Status of "Why don't you come to meetings?" report # Supplies replenishment # Beginning of incipience of start of thoughts about a gentle discussion: Dan would like to not be Chair. We need to think about who will be the next Chair? # Future Meeting Topics # Regular meetings - a day or two after our event? ===SUPPLIES NEEDED=== * Regular (non-decaf) instant coffee ===Lynn's Notes on Asking NSRAP for $100/mo=== I am disappointed to learn of the request for $100.00 monthly support from NSRAP for the purpose of providing food for the salons. Originally an NSRAP project, Elderberries gradually (over the course of ten years) became independent from NSRAP. Part of that independence was ourselves providing the refreshments at gatherings. If the potluck format is burdensome to the members, perhaps it is time to look at the refreshment issue again, but still with an eye to independence : 1) we now have a bank account - let us (frugally) spend our own money; or, 2) provide tea and coffee only; or, 3) clarify that the money collected by passing the hat is for refreshments (this is much the same as option 1, as the money in the bank mostly comes from passing the hat). It was my impression that the free will offering (aka passing the hat) does not come anywhere near $100.00. NSRAP is a political organization, of which I am a member : I think their/our money should be spent on political objectives. If Elderberries has a political project needing support, then is the time to ask for money. ===Grant Proposal=== Email from LGBTI Network: From: MacDonald, Maddi C <Maddi.MacDonald@novascotia.ca> Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:10 PM Subject: Age-Friendly Communities Grant To: "elderberries.scotia2@gmail.com" <elderberries.scotia2@gmail.com>, "nsrap@nsrap.ca" <nsrap@nsrap.ca> Cc: "Smith, Allison Z" <Allison.Smith@novascotia.ca> Hey folks, I wanted to make sure you are aware of the Age-Friendly Communities Grant opportunity. If Elderberries has not considered applying, it would be a great chance to receive some funding to support an initiative you might have. Also, I would love to meet with you to discuss opportunities to implement a positive spaces program in some of our muchly in need Nova Scotian nursing homes and continuing care facilities if you are interested. I believe Lynn was in touch with Lezlie Lee Kam when she was in town for Pride. Lezlie had really inspired me with the work being done in Ontario to make safer spaces for LGBTIQ+ elders. I would love to discuss what Elderberries and NSRAP see as the next steps in supporting our aging LGBTIQ+ population here in Nova Scotia. Perhaps there are opportunities to partner on an initiative. All the best. Maddi MacDonald Co-Chair, LGBTI Network

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