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Welcome Workgroup

Overview of Responsibilities: The Welcome workgroup works to make the Dharma Hall and Sangha activities as welcoming and sense-making as possible for new people. The workgroup handles incoming communication and contact from visitors.   (see the Outreach Workgroup for reaching out to new people and announcing our events; see the Membership Workgroup for supporting people once they become members).

Task List:
  • Check info@redcedarzen.org email and respond or route emails to proper sangha person
  • Check Dharma Hall phone (360-312-7008) voicemail, respond or route messages
  • Handle email list sign ups from clipboard in Lobby, sending new person a Welcome Email and adding them to the sangha email list
  • Producing Welcome CD's
  • Ensuring that there is someone at all sangha events as the "greeter" to greet new people, give them Welcome CD's, hand outs, explain email sign up
  • Offering and scheduling new person orientations
  • Putting out sandwich board sign when the building is open (and putting it away again)
  • Schedule orientations and organize sangha members to give those orientations (actual orientation givers can be sangha members outside Welcome Workgroup)
Current Members:
  1. Christa Simmons
  2. Karen McMains
  3. who else currently?
Membership Documents/Pages: