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Membership & Outreach Manual

This manual is designed to help your community develop a plan for increasing your membership and outreach. Perhaps your community has been meeting for years and has decided to move forward with increasing membership; or perhaps you've just begun and you're working to develop a core group of people to make this dream a reality. In either case, this manual will help you to develop a strategy to increase your membership and outreach in a professional and comprehensive manner.

The first section of this manual is all about you and the membership of your community. We'll go through several exercises and information gathering steps to establish who you are as a community. Each cohousing neighborhood has a unique character and charm. This section will help you to more clearly define this character so that you can communicate it to others who are interested in your community.

The second section is all about the direction of your outreach. Where will new members come from? Who is most likely to be interested in your community? What kind of person is interested in cohousing? What are the unique needs of a cohousing family?

Finally, the third section will help you make a plan to increase your outreach. This section will give you practical tools for developing relationships within your community and get the word out to those who are most likely to be interested in your cohousing neighborhood, making your hopes for new community a reality.

We hope this manual provides the tools you've been looking for. As always, we welcome your suggestions for improvements and your own ideas for what has worked for you.

In community,

Kelly ScottHanson

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