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1. Guiding principles

2. Determining Work Groups

3. What we need from you (by Friday, November 18th)

4. What we expect you to do

5. Next meet-up date

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1. Guiding principles

 

• Treat everyone with humility and grace

• Empower women and girls

• Outsource and purchase materials from women-owned businesses when possible

• Take a sustainable approac to design and fabrication

• Work with small, local businesses when possible

• This is primarily a women-build site (we understand this might not be the case 100% of the time)

 

2. Determining work groups

 

• Fundraising -  Help raise the additional funding for the project.

• Marketing - Responsible for letting the public know what we're doing.

• Sourcing Expertise and Materials-  Responsible for finding experts such as carpenters, electricians, and plumbers, as well as all of the physical materials we need after finishing the design.

• Design -  Create construction documents for the tiny house design, figure out the materials needed, build specs documents. (To be in this group you must have these skills)

• Project Management - Responsible for touching base with all of the working groups to make sure we stay in our timeline and mitigate risks.

• Volunteer Coordination -  Bringing in additional volunteers include contacting nonprofit organizations, schools, etc. to schedule build participation.

• Documenting - Document the meetings by taking videos/photographs of the process.

• Skill Building - Responsible for creating different skill-building exercises for the entire team to build their skills.

• Research - Research communities, housing costs, average salary info, and creative solutions around creative space, home ownership, and rent.

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3. What we need from you 

 

1. Let us know which work group in which you want to participate

2. Write a brief bio (3 - 5 sentences)

3. List skills you have

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4. What we expect you to do

 

1. Attend monthly meeting

2. Commit/participate 2 - 3 times a month in your working group (meeting, skype/phone discussion, etc., totaling 6 hours a month)

3. Please think of two women you think would benefit from this project and forward this PDF to them to see if we can bring on more women. Have a conversation with them and ask if they'd like to join the next meet-up.

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Next meet-up

Saturday, December 10th, 10am

At RPGA Studio 43-01 22nd Street, Suite 252 LIC, NY 11101

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How to get involved

To be alerted of a meetup date go here

https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Tiny-Housebuild-Empowering-Women-Girls-Meetup/For additional

 

Questions call 

RPGA Studio

718.433.4659