Northwest Intentional Communities Association
Annual Report Year 2000
Board of Directors:
President: Jonathon
Betz-Zall
Vice President: Bill
Brunelle
Secretary: Ami Peters
Treasuror: Rob Sandelin
Board Member: Teva Brown
Board Member: Fred Lanphear
Board Member: Habib Rose
The mission of the of Northwest Intentional Communities
Association is to:
1) Ascertain and promote
intentional community aims and values that contribute most to community
sustainability.
2) Facilitate communication
and networking between local, regional
and national intentional community organizations.
3) Foster and assist the study of and education on all
major elements of intentional
communities.
4) assist organizing and
financing efforts of and for sustainable communities.
5) To coordinate the exchange of
resources between communities and others.
2000 financial report
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Total income for 2000
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$ 1535.77
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Total Expenditures for 2000
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$ 1545.18
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Income from donations
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$ 924.40
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Income from memberships
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$ 611.33
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Major expenditure categories
were:
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Newsletter production and
mailing
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$ 734.68
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Costs related to communities gatherings
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$ 245.49
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Membership and support for
other communities organizations
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$ 327
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Board and organizational
expeditures:
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$ 238.01
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Year 2000 major activities
- We produced 4 issues of Communities Resources
Newsletter which provides information for forming and existing communities
and is a networking link to all the 100 communities in the NICA network.
- Re-organized and updated the content on our Website.
Our Intentional Communities Resources Pages, which features hundreds of
pages of articles and links to practical resources on forming and
sustaining Intentional communities, received numerous recognitions.
- The board organized and participated in 2 communities gatherings: In Aprl we
held the spring gathering at the Winslow Cohousing Community and in August
the summer gathering was held at the Bethleham Farm Community. Both
gatherings were attended by representatives of a variety of Intentional
Communities.
- A couple board members attended the FIC (Fellowship
for Intentional Community) communities day and board meeting gathering
held in June at the Lost Valley Community.
- We did some strategizing with the FIC on how to
better work together this year.
- We responded to 6 queries from students at
Universities who are researching Intentional Communities.
- We set up a communities table at Seattle Center earth
day event.
- We supported the planning and organizational efforts
of Co-opportunities NW, a sustainable communities conference to be held at
the Seattle Center in October of 2001. We supported the planning and
organizing of Co-opportunties Portland which will be held in April of
2001.
- We began planning for a NW communities directory to
enable the exchange of services between Intentional Communities and also to
promote community run businesses and services.