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Advocacy Subcommittee - Rachel Chatalbash
Relevant goals in three year plan:
a.) Establish formal communication lines for regionals to report local advocacy issues to SAA and to ask for advocacy assistance, including coordination with the Committee on Advocacy and Public Policy (year 2)
b.) Building on the established formal communication lines, address an advocacy issue which has come out of regionals’ awareness by collaborating on an article / blog post or other appropriate written form of advocacy (year 3)
Goals identified at general meeting
2014-2015
Establish formal communication lines for regionals to report local advocacy issues to SAA and to ask for advocacy assistance, including coordination with the Committee on Advocacy and Public Policy
If time allows, establish a formal procedure for how the regionals can find out about issues on which SAA has released a statement so that the regionals can follow suit if interested. If not, this will be a year 3 goal.
2015-2016
Building on the established formal communication lines, address an advocacy issue which has come out of regionals’ awareness by collaborating on an article / blog post or other appropriate written form of advocacy
Provide assistance to the I&A Roundtable on the development of their advocacy toolkit, which is currently mostly comprised of documents from the regionals
Look at issues that SAA Advocacy likely won’t cover, such as helping regionals stay viable, ways to carry on business without a paid staff, ways to manage the perils of leadership turnover; use these ideas to develop new goals
Committee Members / volunteers:
Relevant goals in three year plan:
a.) Develop a platform to share regionals’ educational powerpoints,handouts, and ideas (year 2)
b.) Explore the possibility of sharing a regional’s educational effort with members of the other regionals, such as opening a regional's low cost webinar to other regionals (year 3)
Goals identified at general meeting
2014-2015
Create a document repository/clearinghouse
Include: sample bylaws, organizational governance documents, presentation PowerPoints with speakers’ notes, workshop handouts, examples of promotional materials, advocacy materials (will collaborate with advocacy committee, conference programs (get sense of ideas for sessions), sample grant applications (coordinate with grant committee), etc.
Advocacy workshop
Have members who attended SAA workshop give a similar workshop/presentation to their groups
Create a PowerPoint template that can be used/modified by other RAAC members
Education needs survey
Create an education needs survey to distribute to regional organization members (to be included with a once-per-year survey sent out on behalf of all RAAC subcommittees in case there are additional subcommittee information needs)
2015-2016
Explore the possibility of sharing a regional’s educational effort to the broader RAAC membership, such as opening a regional’s webinar to the RAAC members
Create a speaker’s bureau
Determine if other workshops may be needed by organizations and implement the “train the trainer” program
Explore offering online training
Committee members / volunteers:
Relevant goals in three year plan:
a.) Write articles for various venues across the country about the RAAC and specific regionals to highlight activities and significance (Under “Encourage collaboration”)
b.) support the development and/or coordination of promotional and outreach programs and tools for regionals (Under “coordinate efforts to streamline actions, reduce costs, increase services”)
Goals identified at general meeting
2014-2015
Make list of known venues for articles and create a plan for who will write articles and what they might highlight (re: the regionals and the RAAC); execute plan. Add links to such newsletters to the Directory as appropriate. Might include non-archival groups such as AAM, ALA, RBMS, etc.
Review the ribbon badges (75 created for $50, all gone) and bookmarks (550 - with significant leftovers) that we made for SAA this year and determine how we can we carry forward this work next year.
Determine a format, schedule, and authors for our “regional of the month” RAAC facebook post.
Short article, Facebook post or blog post written, based on Maine’s economic impact, about developing advocacy resources for regionals, ways for regionals to share ideas- touch base with Advocacy (need to clarify this note from the meeting, Daniel to touch base with Marcella)
2015-2016
Provide a press release template to regionals on “what are archives?” or “what do archivists do?”
Provide online resource for cultivating press / media contacts
Committee members / volunteers:
Relevant goals in three year plan:
a.) Develop an online resource that will make regionals and their members aware of grant opportunities at the federal and regional level (year 2)
b.) Foster collaborative grant writing projects among RAAC participants (year 3)
Goals identified at general meeting
2014-2015
Develop an online resource that will make regionals and their members aware of grant opportunities at the federal and regional level. Include scholarships, programming grants, in-kind work projects, and preservation grants that focus on public awareness or digitization.
Provide support required to endorse the collection match tool; hand off work to co-chairs or another subcommittee (endorsement approved by steering committee 9/17/2014)
2015-2016
Foster collaborative grant writing projects among RAAC participants, which could include multi-regional projects focused on cold storage, digital storage, or film preservation.
Committee members / volunteers
Michelle Riggs, Louisiana Archives and Manuscripts Association
Anne Ryckbost, Kentucky Council on Archives
Clay Stalls, Society of California Archivists
Judith Wiener, Society of Ohio Archivists
Maurita Baldock, Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists
Carey Heatherly, Society of Alabama Archivists
Relevant goals in three year plan:
a.) Identify disaster planning and recovery resources in all regionals across the United States in order to create online resource (year 2)
b.) Based on RAAC’s online resource identifying the disaster planning and recovery resources in all regionals across the United States, publish an article / blog post / listserv message for regionals to use as reminders to their memberships (year 3)
Goals identified at general meeting
2014-2015
2015-2016 -- tbd
Committee members / volunteers