What is everyones opinion on How to get people invovled? example: people with in the community or in general. This is dealing with growing a group. What are some activites everone suggests? Open to anything to try!!
updated by @marie-massart: 02/23/16 03:06:00AM

These are some great questions, Marie, and I'm going to respond with more questions!What kind of group are you interested in growing? Is it a social group? A support group? A group that is focused on finding jobs and growing careers? Or a group that wants to contribute their gifts, time & energy to the community? I think there are lots of possibilities. Give us some idea about what you'd like your group to do. Then you need to find people who care about the same thing as you do and want to act on it.In general I think the best way to get people involved is to find out what they care about enough that they actually want to do something. For example, lots of people care about the environment. But not everyone is involved in a group that actively works to clean up the environment. That doesn't make some people "good" and some people "bad". It's just that some people care enough about the environment to do something. I care about the environment and so I make a big effort to recycle, use energy-efficient lightbulbs, and keep my heat turned down at night. But I don't join clean up highways, ride my bike in the winter, or personally work on getting environmental laws changed. I'm glad other people do these things, but I have many other things I care about.Sorry for rambling on... I hope this helps!Deb

Well Deb,Our groups focus is for people with pyshical disabilities to funcation independantly with in our community. Right now alot of my friends and I have difficulties doing every day things. Such as we can not go shopping in stores wheather it is socially or its for your own reasons. (if that makes sense) one problem with in my community among others is there is no transportions we can all agree on this. The few friends I have behind me agree that we can branch out our group but our main focus to be that there is no acessibility hardly. For example the high school I graduated from almost 5 years ago put on a new addition about 9 years ago. Thats great however one my friends and I got into high school we had to go to the middle school and all the way around just to get to the high school and worry about being late to our 1st hour class. As of this soon to be past year there was an automatic door opener installed. But there are alot of stores and other things in our commnity we would like to seen change for.

Also we have one activte member and three semi activite members. We need more members. I would love to see other people from other communities join us.

I'd say focus on quality, not quantity. In other words, it's better to have a few committed members than a lot of people who really don't want to be there. Start with a few folks who really care about doing what you want to do and see where it goes from there. And be open to doing things differently than you might envision... Find out what they think you should focus on... And good luck! It's great when someone like you wants to get active on something you obviously care about.