Can you help out this evening?
We have OVER 90 PEOPLE registered for our first dialogue tonight! This is without NO ADVERTISING and minimal promotions! Folks, I’m not sure what’s going on but I think we have tapped into something HUGE. I need your help! If you could arrive at about 4:00 to help get the room set up or plan to stay after to help put it back in order, I would greatly appreciate it. Zac will handle checkin/reception but I’m sure he would appreciate some help with that. Unfortunately, our “connecting activities” will be minimal, basically just opportunities for people to share their top why’s and how’s for community engagement. Melody, can you bring your bag a pens and stuff? I’ve made some simple input forms and will bring my pens but we’ll need more. I hope that we can have some discussion around each table as well as capture some basic input, so I’m looking for folks to act as table facilitators/spokespeople. Bigger picture, I’d greatly appreciate folks stepping up to help organize the dialogue sessions, specifically connecting activities. The goal is to facilitate connections around ideas & initiatives to promote collaboration. — Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. Executive Officer and Principal Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg@eduity.net 706-271-5521
Yes, I'll bring the bag with all of the materials from last time. Melody Shekari, JD, MPA Executive Director, Women's Fund of Greater Chattanooga <https://www.chattanoogawomensfund.org/> 423-240-2463 On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 11:31 AM Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. <greg@eduity.net> wrote:
We have OVER 90 PEOPLE registered for our first dialogue tonight! This is without NO ADVERTISING and minimal promotions! Folks, I’m not sure what’s going on but I think we have tapped into something HUGE.
I need your help!
If you could arrive at about 4:00 to help get the room set up or plan to stay after to help put it back in order, I would greatly appreciate it. Zac will handle checkin/reception but I’m sure he would appreciate some help with that.
Unfortunately, our “connecting activities” will be minimal, basically just opportunities for people to share their top why’s and how’s for community engagement. Melody, can you bring your bag a pens and stuff? I’ve made some simple input forms and will bring my pens but we’ll need more.
I hope that we can have some discussion around each table as well as capture some basic input, so I’m looking for folks to act as table facilitators/spokespeople.
Bigger picture, I’d greatly appreciate folks stepping up to help organize the dialogue sessions, specifically connecting activities. The goal is to facilitate connections around ideas & initiatives to promote collaboration.
— Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. Executive Officer and Principal Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg@eduity.net 706-271-5521
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Greg, Do you have an itemized list of roles? I am happy to help, just need to know what is most important / urgent so the night is successful. I can help Zac up front. You mentioned an input form. Is it digital or do you have to write in your response on paper? Thanks! I'll arrive as early as possible. I have a meeting that wraps at 4:15 and I'll head over. Alayna On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 11:32 AM Melody Shekari < melody@chattanoogawomensfund.org> wrote:
Yes, I'll bring the bag with all of the materials from last time.
Melody Shekari, JD, MPA Executive Director, Women's Fund of Greater Chattanooga <https://www.chattanoogawomensfund.org/> 423-240-2463
On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 11:31 AM Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. <greg@eduity.net> wrote:
We have OVER 90 PEOPLE registered for our first dialogue tonight! This is without NO ADVERTISING and minimal promotions! Folks, I’m not sure what’s going on but I think we have tapped into something HUGE.
I need your help!
If you could arrive at about 4:00 to help get the room set up or plan to stay after to help put it back in order, I would greatly appreciate it. Zac will handle checkin/reception but I’m sure he would appreciate some help with that.
Unfortunately, our “connecting activities” will be minimal, basically just opportunities for people to share their top why’s and how’s for community engagement. Melody, can you bring your bag a pens and stuff? I’ve made some simple input forms and will bring my pens but we’ll need more.
I hope that we can have some discussion around each table as well as capture some basic input, so I’m looking for folks to act as table facilitators/spokespeople.
Bigger picture, I’d greatly appreciate folks stepping up to help organize the dialogue sessions, specifically connecting activities. The goal is to facilitate connections around ideas & initiatives to promote collaboration.
— Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. Executive Officer and Principal Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg@eduity.net 706-271-5521
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We do not have a list of roles yet, Alayna. That’s a good first step for getting organized… along with getting folks to step up to each role. I have a preliminary checklist for dialogues that I’ll share at our next regular meeting next Tuesday, which should be a good starting point for roles. For today, the input form is paper-based and very simple. It’s a bit of an experiment as much as a tactic for getting folks’ inputs. We have several options for digital means to gather input, but that will require a bit more planning to make sure they’re easy to do and don’t distract from connecting. BTW, if you send email to this address, cvsg@list.chattanooga.digital, everyone who has expressed interest in actively participating in the Study Group will get it (although, I suspect it’s going into some folks’ spam folders).
On Feb 23, 2026, at 12:07 PM, Alayna Smith <alayna@chattanoogafc.com> wrote:
Greg,
Do you have an itemized list of roles? I am happy to help, just need to know what is most important / urgent so the night is successful. I can help Zac up front.
You mentioned an input form. Is it digital or do you have to write in your response on paper?
Thanks! I'll arrive as early as possible. I have a meeting that wraps at 4:15 and I'll head over.
Alayna
— GL
participants (3)
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Alayna Smith -
Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. -
Melody Shekari