Public Charity Status:  A major focus over the past months on setting up a 501 c public charity (The Peace Train Charitable Trust), complete with bank account, by laws, board members, and other policy documents.  This has now been accomplished.  The Peace Train Charitable Trust is a federally-recognized 501 (c) 3 Public Charity.

Levels of involvement:

1 ) Peacetrain assists in the advertising and perhaps management of funds collections

2) Peace Train creates a component of a program, and maybe does #1 too

3) Peace Train does the whole enchilada.

List of potential projects for 2010-

Speaker Series - coordinate with other Four Bridges events, Virtually Speaking and Twilight's Peace. - level 1-3

- 16 Days on Gender Violence project

- - I'll moderate 2 panel discussions in SL; Saturday Nov. 28 from 10-12pm and another on the same day from 1-3pm SLT.

- possible speakers: 

- - Veterans for Peace (already in SL - Coyote Longfall)

- - Robert Aserela  (http://www.aserelamaine.org/) 

- - Success would be 6 speaker / panel events (in addition to PeaceFest) during the year

April - Earth day - contribute in some fashion, a level 2 commitment

October - Imagine - check with Medora on this, see if it is going to happen

November 5-7 - PeaceFest 2010 - level 3 commitment

- - Success could be measured by the following metrics;

- - - $5,000 - $10,000 US dollars raised for the organization(s) identified (total)

- - - University partnership in providing students to get involved in planning and production of PeaceFest

- - - Minimum of 5 interviews / panel discussions

- - - Minimum of 18 live performances

- - - Minimum of 3 ongoing displays (e.g. art auctions, etc.)

- - - Desired combined attendance of 1000 attendees over the course of the 3 days

December - Human Rights - level 1 commitment

 Things to do (as of Nov. 4, 2009)

- Schedule board meeting

- Lay out calendar for upcoming year

- Create a viewable calendar (google?)

- Update slpeacetrain.org with comments from recipients and photos

- Update with link to Peace Train FB, Peace Train twitter, Peace Train MySpace, and Peace Train Youtube

- Rekindle efforts to connect with colleges - get one-pager together, connect w/ FB contacts

- Investigate Blue Mars