August 20th 2026 Community Meeting
Notes written by Fen and MJ.
$704 cash and venmo raised at Maddy’s bar, including drink sales
Planning Committee for Community Dinner – for those with food insecurity
- Free Thanksgiving Dinner with no barriers for anyone
- Location tbd first United Methodist possibly? [get intro from Amanda with Healing Hearts]
- Potluck
- Distribute Thanksgiving meal kits
- Have speakers/listening session, similar to NAACP events in MKE (Ashley has posted ideas on Discord), conversation cards at tables
- Possible dates Nov 15th to 21st
- Would be good to work with other orgs, maybe they could sponsor tables? Def talk to Stone Soup Project
Community Dinner Planning Committee (please join if you want)
- Ashley
- Robin
- Andrea
- Amethyst
- MJ
- Capacity? Logistics?
- Space, menu (meet dietary needs)
- volume of people
- Need 2 to 3 turkeys
Waukesha Pride
- September 12th
- Vending crafts – call for crafts
- One table
- Want to have business cards before then
- Make buttons, bracelets, stickers (Brant has a sticker source)
Craft/Team Building for WMAN
- September 3rd 6:00 PM at Fen’s house – bring something to pass
August 29 Food share/school supplies
- Extras can be donated to Alliance for Education
- Need volunteers
Oshkosh Vagabonds reached out in email about
- Forming a Wisconsin mutual aid counsel to bring groups together
- Need 2 delegates
- On hold for now due to storm relief efforts
Fundraising
- Possible rummage sale
September
- Sept 17 for community meeting
- Foodshare/camping supplies – Sept 26th 10:00 to 12:00 PM (library reserved, but outdoor location?)
- Type IN / Replacement QWERTY Fest
- Oct 2, 3, or 4th – location TBD (Brant has connection with The Familiar Place, bar on East side MKE)
- Will model after last event, Amethyst mostly needs some volunteers
Book Club
- August 30th 9 AM The Waukesha Cafe – no assigned reading, topic is political corruption – share anything you have read or listened to on the topic
Narcan – Beth contacted Waukesha County Public health and possible getting narcan to be available at food shares or have Waukesha country public health to possibly have a table or info at food shares. She could train or they could.
Mike suggested we try to get organizations to partner with us for the monthly shares, more networking and they could be where we donate extra items that month.
MJ suggested we try to collect donations ahead so we are sure to have supply for each event – like ahead of the next event we try to get donations of emergency supplies so we know we have stuff before the October event focused on emergency road kits.
Brant to put together a list of what we’ll need for emergency road kits.