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WANTED: Volunteers to be a part of Michigan Open Carry, Inc. Leadership
TheQ:
We have several positions open within the leadership team. I'll describe each below. In order to fill one of these positions you must be a dues paying member of Michigan Open Carry, Inc.
Event Coordinator
We have openings in several geographical areas that I would like to see filled by energetic members willing to organize an event between once a month and once a quarter in each area. You would work with the regional coordinator in your region (NW, SW, NE, SE, UP).
Areas available are:
* Greater Grand Rapids (Potentially includes Holland and Muskegon)
* Tri-Cities (Bay City, Saginaw, Midland (+Flint))
* Flint
* Metro-Detroit
* Mt. Pleasant
* Jackson
* Traverse City
* Port Huron
Communications Director
Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to advocate for Open Carry in print, behind a radio microphone, and in front of a TV camera. Works with the Board of Directors on press releases as needed.
Please feel free to post questions in this thread. Interested members should contact board@miopencarry.org
I'll Update this thread as positions are filled or become available.
Glock9mmOldStyle:
May I suggest you and the board consider the following?
The SE MI. area is where the bulk of the population lives, it only makes sense to focus there and use the experience gained there to enrich our activities in the other areas.
We should establish a Family friendly media events coordinator(s) for every area [OC/CC & PFZ carry will never be fully excepted by the general public until they see families carrying legally holstered pistols]. As with many things in life it is easy to pick at a group of guys as thugs with "tough guy syndrome" It is a little harder to fault a group of women, men and children all gathered together to enjoy a lunch or dinner, a fund raiser for JDF, Cancer research, St. Jude's, children hospital, a game of softball, apple seed shoot, bowling etc... I hope you & others can see the wisdom in this?
Establish a Detroit specific event coordinator with several deputy's to assist.
Establish a Downriver specific event coordinator with a deputy(s) to assist.
These area's are in my honest opinion completely under served by us (and others) at this time. With good planning and follow through, these areas could yield many new members. The areas mentioned here are experiencing rapid rises in crime in conjunction with slashed emergency services (police/fire etc...) Many people that live there are becoming more concerned for their safety. In my area [Downriver] the majority of people have always been pro 2A to the best of my knowledge, and are painfully aware of the limitations of their police.
TheQ:
--- Quote from: Glock9mmOldStyle on January 10, 2012, 04:28:29 AM ---May I suggest you and the board consider the following?
The SE MI. area is where the bulk of the population lives, it only makes sense to focus there and use the experience gained there to enrich our activities in the other areas.
--- End quote ---
I'm always open to hearing suggestions. ;)
I agree there is much to be had in the Metro-Detroit area, but I refuse to neglect the rest of the State. We've been having much activity in the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek area, in large credit to a new, energized volunteer event coordinator who is focused on those cities. I will happily take an energized volunteer wherever I can find one, in or out of metro-D.
--- Quote from: Glock9mmOldStyle on January 10, 2012, 04:28:29 AM ---We should establish a Family friendly media events coordinator(s) for every area [OC/CC & PFZ carry will never be fully excepted by the general public until they see families carrying legally holstered pistols]. As with many things in life it is easy to pick at a group of guys as thugs with "tough guy syndrome" It is a little harder to fault a group of women, men and children all gathered together to enjoy a lunch or dinner, a fund raiser for JDF, Cancer research, St. Jude's, children hospital, a game of softball, apple seed shoot, bowling etc... I hope you & others can see the wisdom in this?
--- End quote ---
Sure, I can see the wisdom in having family events. How do I put handguns onto the hips of women? My wife goes to events and when she does, she wears a firearm. I'm not capable not desiring of forcing women to attend AND carry. We've had dinners before. Women attended those dinners. I don't recall seeing many of them carrying though. I see how having more women carry could help the cause, but how do you propose we make that happen exactly? It's a good vision, I'm having difficulty seeing the implementation. Maybe you could help?
--- Quote from: Glock9mmOldStyle on January 10, 2012, 04:28:29 AM ---Establish a Detroit specific event coordinator with several deputy's to assist.
Establish a Downriver specific event coordinator with a deputy(s) to assist.
--- End quote ---
Are you volunteering to fill one of these posts? We have plenty of ideas in this organization. Sadly what we lack is people of action. Are you volunteering to be one of these people of action?
--- Quote from: Glock9mmOldStyle on January 10, 2012, 04:28:29 AM ---These area's are in my honest opinion completely under served by us (and others) at this time. With good planning and follow through, these areas could yield many new members. The areas mentioned here are experiencing rapid rises in crime in conjunction with slashed emergency services (police/fire etc...) Many people that live there are becoming more concerned for their safety. In my area [Downriver] the majority of people have always been pro 2A to the best of my knowledge, and are painfully aware of the limitations of their police.
--- End quote ---
I agree, events yield members. That is totally 100% correct.
We have many areas (not just metro-D) that are underserved by us. We will serve the areas we can with the volunteers we have. If I have a volunteer in Alpena who sets up an event twice a month there, should I turn him away and say, "I'm sorry, we're focussing on metro-D""? As mentioned previously, our problem is the lack of volunteers. You see how popular and hopping this thread is, I'm sure? Will you hep us? Maybe you can help us make your vision a reality?
PS. Some forum reading software (like Tap-a-talk, which is used by many to read this forum on their phone) gets a bit cranky when you use a '[' or ']' outside of a tag (like to bold). You might want to avoid using them in future post.
Glock9mmOldStyle:
Q - Thanks for the reply,
I will help - is MasterControl still the coordinator for my area? I was not suggesting any area being ignored, nor was I saying anything about forcing women to attend events? I am far too smart for that... I hope. What I was trying to impress on you and the others is: if we can build a female & minority membership we will be a better/stronger group for it.
I would suggest gearing some events towards that. For example the former secretary *Shaun* of MOC goes to the Eastern market in Detroit often with OC friends. Now if we could turn that toe hold into women friendly event(s) a.k.a. SHOPPING as spring/summer approaches we may be onto something, getting it yet? ;) Then expand the idea to other farmer/craft markets in different areas. This is just one example of how we can get creative and expand our membership.
Thanks for the tapa talk warning I will avoid bold tags I guess? Sounds like a quirk in their app?
P.S. I know GLX is too far for some but My wife has yet to turn down the opportunity to go there and shop ;) On the
other hand she has not made many of the Bass Pro events there....you get my point? Wink, wink.
TheQ:
OP updated. We need your help. If interested PLEASE FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS IN THE OP!
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