Our goal is create a clearing house for resouces in the community. Friends of Allerton will help others by providing informational resources, money, volunteers or encouraging partnerships . We want to be here to help any way that we can. I believe once Friends of Allerton gets off of the ground, we will see a big diffence in community envolvement
Friends of Allerton operates as a diverse group. We have a president, vp, secretary and treasurer- when something comes to the board, it is voted on- majority ruling- this way everyone has their say on what should be done- no one single person will be incharge of the whole group - it will take team effort.
We are now begining the next step of recruiting new members. During our Family Fun Day- community members filled out surveys to show how involved they want to be. Many filled out their names to join Friends of Allerton. This will be discussed at our next meeting in July.
The board has discussed that all of the subcommittees need to be reporting back to the board with their current status. Post cards are being sent to the president of each committee stating that they are expected to report on certain dates with new information on what they are doing now and also if there is anything that the board can do to help them complete their initial projects.
The Friends of Allerton board has looked at getting some community feed back on their thoughts of the whole idea of Horizon’s. A committee has been formed to forming a community event that invites everyone in Allerton to get more knowledege of Horizon’s and also to get feed back of what already know what Horizon’s is all about and also to allow new thoughts and ideas to be brought up. This committee is meeting Thursday nights at 6:00 at the Fire Training Center-anyone is more than welcome to join.
Members from different circle groups have come together to start to form a non profit group “Friends of Allerton”. Actions that have been taken include: establishing “Friends of Allerton”, electing board members, setting bylaws and identifying their mission statement-
Our purpose is to identify and act upon ideas to reduce the impact of poverty in the community of Allerton. The goal is to be the central location for the sub-committees (Communication committee, Garden committee, Resource Day committee, and Pantry committee) to come to for future funding, which would be approved or disapproved by the board and also to have other members of the community to step forward and become active in their attempt to reduce poverty in Allerton. Some ideas that have been mentioned are to have a Fun Day at the Allerton ball field each month that would get families to interact with each other and to have a movie night up town that would allow families to have a night out. A grant application has been developed that requests those who are applying for assistance to demonstrate how the project addresses poverty and how low-income individuals are involved. The grants require matching in-kind or grant funds from community or outside sources. Friends of Allerton is still in a work of progress, but it is coming along nicely.