 It started and I just wanted to thank everybody for being here today. For those of you, I'm assuming everybody knows why they're here. This is part of the Pride Center San Antonio strategic planning process. And what we really wanted to do is to get everybody's input from a community perspective. Because ultimately, when we start offering more programming and initiatives in the future, we want to make sure it reflects the community and not just the small board of directors that run the daily operation with that right now. So again, thank you for being here for this. Just to kind of lay out a few things, we're just going to continue through the whole session up until four o'clock. If you do need to step out for any reason, the bathrooms are actually right through the side here. If you go to your right in the gym area, there's a bathroom in there. It's a one-stall bathroom, so help yourself through that. Cookies and water help yourself as well. So do that on your lead director as you need to. So don't think you're going to interrupt this or not. And as more people start coming in, if anybody does arrive, then we'll just kind of sit on where we are. So again, thank you for being here. I did want to thank NowcastSA. They are Charlotte Ann and Clayton Beck here are going to be live streaming the session today so that people can interact online that weren't able to be here in person. So they'll basically be offering the same input that y'all are going to be offering here just online and myself and Charlotte Ann will be online. I think there's one other person I think Brian may be filling that information from there. So we'll have some additional voices as this goes. So thank you to them. They were able to offer their services free of charge to us today through a grant that they received for LGBT work specifically. So NowcastSA does run off of public funding, donations, grants, things like that. So if you don't know about their organization, definitely go to NowcastSA.com, look them up, and some of the other great work that they're doing here in the city. It brings information to our fingertips that we wouldn't normally, we can't go to multiple things at a time. Good thing about that as well is that they do archive your information. So if you don't have an opportunity to see it while it's live streaming, a lot of times you can go on there and see it as well. So thank you to them. Also thank you to Wyndham Garden Riverwalk. They donated this space for us to use today. They've been great to us. When I needed a space, I got a Facebook IM and they said, we have something for you if you want it. And there was no if, if I wanted it. So thank you to them for that. And then also to Wells Fargo, Jennifer, which I'll introduce a little bit more in a little bit, she is with Wells Fargo and she is offering her services to the Pride Center to build up this community platform, again, at no charge either. So thank you to her. Those of you that may be Facebooking, tweeting or anything like that, hashtag PrideCenterSA is what you can use. And then we'll also be using that for the individuals that are streaming online and having online conversation. Wireless is Wyndham One. All lowercase than the number one. And they're live streaming off of a hard port, so we won't interrupt them if we all have them along at once. So again, so right in front of you, you have a 2015 fact sheet. And this is kind of a lot of the information compiled from where, when we started and where we are now. And then of course, we'll be talking about the things today on how we can move forward in the future. For those of you that are not aware of the history of Pride Center, back in 2009, a group of San Antonio residents, community leaders, got together in a living room and basically started talking about the idea of having a community center. For being as large of a city as we are, we didn't have one at that point. So the conversation started going and it went from there. And in 2011, they actually formed the board and started with the planning process and started making themselves relevant in the community. So a lot of the information here on the history and kind of more details can be found on this fact sheet. So we wanted to provide some information to you on that. So basically, we're here to serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV communities by connecting them and their families to community resources and organizations related to health, wellness, support, education activities and advocacy. So again, the reason that you're here today is so that we could fully live up to this mission and provide services to the community that are useful to them. And then also so that we can see what's in the community already so that we don't overlap. So there's no need to reinvent the wheel but other organizations are already offering something. That's something that we may not want to offer but we may want to partner with them and enhance it or see what we can do as a community center to do that. So that's the reason that we're here. For those of you that don't know also, we do have a community resource center right now that operates on very limited hours. So we'll be looking to expand our volunteer base, things like that. And when we pass on a survey later, then you'll have an opportunity to express your interest if you're wanting to get involved more and there's different areas that you can get involved. So we'll be passing that out later. So I will kind of shut up now. So I'll turn it over to Jennifer. Actually, before I do so, I just wanted to also point out a couple of board members that we do have here with us today. We have Richard Fadies. Richard is our current chair of the board and Naomi Brown. And Naomi Brown is also there. They've actually been two of the originals way back when, when they had a Live Your Meeting. So they've been with us and we definitely appreciate that for their service. And then, and I don't even know if I can do this myself. I'm Robert Solcito. I'm a current board and on the executive team as well. And Brian Paulderman, if you can raise your hand. He's been instrumental in helping me set up these events. I just wanted to thank him as well. He's not currently on board yet. Hopefully we can change that. And then Marlon Anderson as well. Marlon is on a planning committee that's helping us with these events. And so thank you to them and all of y'all for being here. But I'll turn it over to Jennifer Moriotti. Moriotti, help me out. I always say it wrong. You have to be always here. And like I said, she is with Wells Fargo and she is preciously donating her time and expertise to us to help us through this process. So thank you, Jennifer Moriotti. So welcome. Thank you guys for coming out on what is actually a really lovely day. So I'm sure it was tempting to maybe hang out at home and do some step in your yard. So we are going to be here till four o'clock. This is going to be a very engaging session. I'm going to ask everybody to participate. And these are kind of our meeting norms. We start with who is in the room. You guys are in the room. We're going to get started. If you need to step out and take a phone call, take a potty break, give a snack. Just feel free to do that. Don't even have to raise your hand. And everyone's wisdom is needed for the wisest results. So this is really seeking your input. I'm just here to move us through a process that gathers everybody's information. The first session was fabulous. Some really great ideas came out of it. And that's going to inform the planning committee and the board as they move forward with building a three to five year strategic plan for the organization. Every idea, concern, and perspective is valued. There is no bad input. So let it flow. We're going to do a brainstorming. I'm going to ask you just to do a brain dump of all of your ideas. And then we're going to talk about all of them. So everybody's voice is going to be up on the board. And we're going to build consensus around that in response to a focus question, which is really what should the Pride Center be doing for our community? One conversation at a time. It gets a little hard. You'll see me go like this, which means I'm hearing too many voices and I'm having trouble capturing what everybody's saying. So if I raise my hand, I'm just struggling to decipher one person over another, which is great. That's just an indication of a lot of energy in the room. If you're somebody who's kind of quiet and tends to hold back, push yourself to be engaged and make sure your voice is heard. If you tend to be a real chatty Cathy like me, sometimes pull back and make sure that other people at your table can get their perspective in as well. And if you've got electronics going, mute or manage them as much as you can. But I understand we all have our electronics out in front of us all the time. So I was doing something yesterday and the phone started ringing on the table. And I looked at the group like, can I answer the phone? And it was my phone. No, that was my ringtone. You have name tents in front of you and if you just make sure you put your name on the front and back, so people behind you can't read them. Make sure that they can see your name on both sides. So I want to start just by finding out who's in the room and go around and ask you to just introduce yourself if you're representing an organization and involved with an organization that you want to share. Please do that. We'll just go kind of quickly around the room. Can we start over here? I'm Victoria Garcia. I work for the city of San Antonio, the department for the park, creative development, and we find all the arts agencies. I'm a community member. My son's gay and he works for the AIDS health foundation, which is a non-profit. I'm sure some of you know about it. And so they are trying to collaborate with people more locally. And he's out in the Bay area right now. And so I'm going to introduce them a little bit more and get to know what resources we have here right now. I'm Ron Anderson. I am in program development with a non-profit health and services organization from San Antonio. I'm Junda. I am the medical director for the San Antonio Medical Health and Health District. And so we hear that try the... One of the things we like to say is health and all policies. So we talk about some of the overlaps that there may be in the Pride Center goals and the other questions. I'm Brian Aldermich. I'm volunteer with the Pride Center. My full-time job is going to be TSA and civic engagement. My name is Delaney Nolan. I'm with Tommy Atkinson. He's running for mayor. And I'm also the president of the Barrack County Young Democrats. And both of my roommates are gay. And I'm really happy to be here. And this is also a really impressively coordinated meeting. So I'm really excited to be here with you. And I'm Tommy Axe. Surprise, surprise. Glad to be here. Glad to help in being the best we can be. I think my track record at the Wissner's Court in the pre-world speaks for itself. I've walked the talk. And this time of year is when people usually start to just talk. But anyway, I'm here to listen and learn a little bit. And I just want to make sure I popped in the same way. I am Tom Atkins. I live across the street from Delaney. I am in social services. I was in television for 30 years. But the reason why I'm here is because I believe the world needs every individual to thrive. And since I've thrived, I want to share that with others. So I run groups for people teaching how to overcome their fear of public speaking. I'm going to start a series on psychology, but one new beginning for men, which is a union perspective on personal growth. I do a lot of things. I'm just kind of looking for more to do. My job is a social worker. I'm in homeless services. Roberts, I'll see if I haven't changed. And although I'm with Price Center, which feels like full-time jobs sometimes, my real job, or my other job, I should say, is I'm a film organizer for Equality Texas. I'm Peggy Curay. And I wanted to come here today representing a social club that's in town, Alamo Couples. Happy to hear about the work that's been done here. I'm large feet, and I'm the third. You're partners of 25 years and we're interested in community. Everything that goes on. Hi, I'm Lady Ella, third-year medical student, and we are trying to start up a student-run free clinic. So this is kind of my great opportunity to spread the word and hopefully get that clinic off the ground in the next ones. Hi, I'm Fai. I'm a first-year medical student, and I'm with her. Hi, my name is David Yip, and I just recently moved back here to San Antonio to be close to the family. And I was involved a lot with the groups in Rochester, New York, where I went to college. So I'm just trying to find a community and try to get involved and see what kind of healthcare is in San Antonio. Because I remember there wasn't a lot of people around San Antonio. You know, like Arda, I work for two, I work in manufacturing, and I work in HR, and being with the panel here, I work with Vice Chair for Spectrum, which is a new agency that's just part of it, that we just can't start in July. I'm trying to get a little information to get back to you all. And I'm Ben Moore, and I'm with Eli, and I'm the chair of Spectrum, which is the business partner with the Toyota. And do I have anything else to say? I have a read, and I'm here to help you all. Man, a few words. I'm primary chef Elias, and I'm really just grateful to see all of you all out here on this Saturday. Like Robert said, I'm the current chair, but Naomi and I were there at some of the first conversations six years ago. Just hard to believe it's been a lot. But my full-time job is at the same time college where I'm the student activities director. And I got involved in the community through the student group there, and just really excited about all the possibilities that could have come out of a lot of partnerships. Thank you all. I'm Naomi Brown, and I am on the board of the Bright Center in Lesley, New England in 2009. We're talking about it. My full-time job, I'm a social worker. I work professional development and training human resources, and I do safe zone training for the San Antonio Police Department and all the other stuff. I'm Stan Delgado. I'm from San Antonio. I haven't really been active in the community for a long time. When I was in college, I used to like it. I wanted you to go to the old gate switchboard, which is a little growing, but as big as that window, it didn't really work. One pole. So when I found out this community center was this delegation, I suppose, was this community center, or something like that. I'm Kelly Sellers. I'm a middle school teacher at an alternative center. So what brought me here is I'm actually a master's program for school counseling, and I'm strongly advocating kids that are in the LGBT community, making sure that as a school teacher that we make sure that we are servicing those students because I feel like there's a lot of life there. What brought me here specifically was I had to communicate with and join into a community that I'm not part of. I'm married and a sexual woman, so I'm not part of it, technically. But also, just absolutely interest being part of the community and joining in, I think it's something that we need. I grew up in North Carolina, where it was not very prominent or very okay to be gay, and my best friends are both now a lesbian and gay man living out in the world and we were a trio of best friends. I'm talking too much. I'm a teacher. I'm here. And I said, okay. I wanted to try. Sorry. I'm Charlotte Ann Lucas, and thank you for the terrific introduction, Robert. The other reason that we are here is because we are a 501c3 nonprofit, and our mission is to promote and facilitate an inclusive civic conversation. I'm Marlon Anderson, and my full-time paid job is I work for Northeast Lakeview College out in the University City as the Director of Student Research, and I have the same job to get to campus. And I got interested in Pride Center and this process because I think of what I see happening just the need, number one, and the potential for San Antonio to have a thriving Pride Center that is very, very much inclusive and supportive and tries to fit the needs of its community, ever-changing community, and it is ever-changing. So I thought what a great time for this group to kind of listen from, to hear from our community of how the needs have changed and what we can do in terms of our planning process to have the Center address this change. I'm Aaron. This is my one-year anniversary here in San Antonio. I moved here from Chicago to take a job at USA Day last year. I came by myself, so it was a really big decision and left a lot of friends and family behind. I was president of the student LGBT group at the University of Illinois for two years and I was involved in Chicago in the community center and a lot of the sports organization that they do. So really glad to be here and look forward to getting involved in the community more. Thank you all. What a great group of very diverse individuals and interests. So I appreciate that. You know, our primary purpose today is to really inform what the Pride Center should be doing. And I know from the first session there's a lot of LGBT serving organizations in our community. So I wanted to capture that again in this session and instead of me scribing which got a little crazy because everybody was like, no, no. I've got some sheets of paper on your table and so as a table if one of you would agree to be the scribe and use these markers and just jot down the organizations that you know of that are in the community serving the LGBT transgender community whoever you think needs to be on these papers. There's several of them and we'll put them up here and we'll probably have some duplicates across the table. But write with the markers a little bit big like this and just list them. You don't need to list their mission statement and what they do. Just their name. So I'm going to give you guys about 10 minutes to do that real quickly. Want to give the tables take on the marker and the paper and then we'll put them up here and see who we might be missing. All right. I think I'm about 10 years old. Can I have a minute? Can I have a minute? All right. All right. I'll let you guys have a minute. Can I have a minute? I don't think so. Okay. Wait. I'll just write some things down. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm just really good. Throw that. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, should we put the log hat? It's a set of ours. Okay. Let me see. Are we writing games? Yeah. Let's have more. Okay. What's your choice? I'm going to play jam. What's the other one? Diabla's. Diabla's. Diabla's and, what's the other one? What's the other one? Is it jam? Very. Jam. Jam. Is it syrup? Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's sort of a bit. For those. Rob. I don't know. You're a little bit. Thank you. What is it? What is it? Oh, I don't know. What's the name of the game? LRG, I'm here. I'm here. You have LL, I'm here. I think I'm LL. Okay. Which is. Which is the great name, right? The absolute answer to me. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm here. Right. Right. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. We need to get confused with us, or we need to get confused with you. So, try this. The organization, most of the colleges and universities have a lot to do with that group. Right. Which is really good, it's a good time. Many of the schools have been very... I don't know if I've done it before. I thought about it. Yeah, but I think that's so indignant about times changing for more students. It's interesting how they do it. I do have a life. Yes, and it's not even an incident, it's just a non-issue. They just sit in there like, oh that's my boyfriend. Nobody cares. Nobody in the class cares. No, and certainly I know that enemies, and it's never an issue. When anybody does make an issue, they know that I'm like, I shut that down. I don't want it to be loud. It should never be. It does a proper issue. So there's HRC, which is the human rights campaign for national workers. We have a little bit of a chat here. It's called Equal Justice, which is a group of Robert Brooks, who's a billboard and focusing specifically on the Texas legislation. And they were very instrumental in some of the PSDAs. These are donors. We're not even going to start in the number of calls in the past. Five times the lawyers should now have the LGBT support. That would be great. Maybe it's in progress. You know, what do you not think? They don't ever tell us. Yeah, there's... And I'm sure there's... You talked about the spirit of HRC. This is the outlook. They heard that there's a collective call. Okay. There's a blind group. There used to be a bicep group. There's a black group. There's a white group. The day after tomorrow, there will be a c- There's a black group. There's a black group. There's a black group. There's a black group. The website is consistent, and Sam Sanchez used to use San Antonio, now Frank's been in. The website is consistent, now Frank's been in. The website is consistent, now Frank's been in. Alright, let's see who's already out in our community. Spectrum, Toyota, ERG, San employee resource group, PS2U, Dignity SA, Saga, MCC, SSA, TGRA, IGRA, HRC, Equality Texas, Stonewall Democrats, Estoranza, Empire of Air, San Antonio Bears, San Antonio Frontrunners, Diablos, Jans Bowlingly, Pride San Antonio, Piplag, UTSA, LGBTQ, Thrive, San Antonio AIDS Foundation, B-Dates, AARC, Mujeres, San Antonio LGBT Chamber, Rainbow Families, Gala, SAC, Alliance, our Lady of the Lake University, Outnessa.com, and Magazine, is that right? Alright, San Antonio AIDS, B-AIDS, PS2U, Stonewall Democrats, College of DVT, HRC, Quality Texas, San Antonio Diablos, San Antonio Roadrunners, Alamo Couples, Rainbow Garden Club, TGRAs, bronza, Pride SA, Stonewall Democrats, UT Health Sites Center, San Antonio Pride, Thrive, Haven For Hope, PS2U, PS2U, LGBT Chamber, UTSA Pride, HRC, LGBT Lulat, B-Dates, San Antonio Project Hot, San Antonio Queer Collective, here's a new one, Newton's News, B-AIDS AIDS Foundation, Health Department MSM, HIV Testing, Stonewall, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, I'm going to join that group. San Antonio Shyamala Center, Outnessa, Esperanza, PS2U, Saga Project Embrace, Pride Center, Pedestrianitas, Thrive, LGBT Chamber, Dignity, PFLAG. Any ones that we're missing that we want to make sure we get up there? Pretty good list. What's the name of the group that just started that is doing the homeless youth? Thrive. Big list. So the LGBT community that are being addressed by these organizations, what are the good things that are going on? Young people, teenagers, they need a lot of help. I think most of these organizations are addressing needs for the community that weren't being addressed by mainstream organizations. I'm going to say mainstream. Social. Something other than bars, Alamo Couples is a social club for gay and lesbian couples in committed relationships. So we meet to play together and it gives us a chance to share our couplehood that's not accepted in the mainstream. And a place to shore each other up in other relationships. What are some of the low points and challenges for the LGBT community? Cohesiveness. Communication is one too. Our weight was on Marlin because we did, I've been here 10 years and I was like, I can name Pride SA. And that's an AIDS foundation. And that's a matter of getting the word out. Maybe there was a centralization like Pride SA or something. Because I was thinking earlier, one of the highs is just such a diverse amount of, you can go running, you can play football, you can get medical attention. There's a lot of different age things. But I don't know about most of them, so it doesn't help if nobody knows about it. I think of maybe making sure that the organizations know how to deal with newcomers when they come to their meetings. Like some sort of, I've heard a few stories here and there of people going to a meeting for, I'm not going to name specific organizations because it's here and there. But to go to a meeting and it feels like a coterie, closed off, doesn't feel welcome to new members. So where do you see collaboration in community? We are in some sort of, so I don't know if it was up there, but Pride SA is a group of faith leaders in the community who are concerned about the pastoral care of LGBT individuals in the community and trying to communicate and bring together the faith community to usually do a Pride service in the summer, every year around the Pride. And do a, I think they do the, or they coordinate on the World AIDS Day event. So they do a number of parties like that, but so I would say that's a hopeful sign. Well, I'm thinking about it. I understand why a lot of the clubs and bars weren't really put up there. But at the same time, some of the events that have gone on have been in support and they've helped to advertise to get the word out. In fact, is that the last event that's coming up, you know, to eat? Yes. So, I mean, we don't have them up there, but they do collaborate quite often or open if groups go to them to request. But some are hesitant to believe that it gives you wrong connotation. I guess another reason that the bars were kind of left out is primarily because we're trying to focus in on the organizations that support us. Everyone kind of thinks when they think of the gay community of the bars. And it's not the first thing. There's a lot of other stuff going on in the community. Well, at the same time, it's changing the concept of what people believe the bars stand for and what you can't do. So when we all believe that that's the only thing that they are good for, then they even lose themselves into what we make them. Where do you think there might be duplication of services among organizations? I'm sure that they're all very good and have their own specialties and special communities that they're a part of. But at the same time, you have so many organizations focusing on the same thing without collaboration, constant collaboration. It starts becoming a disconnect. So I wonder how the health department and some HIV testing, we have a new grant and we're trying to get out there. And we're finding that, oh, this group has this bar. And it's hard to break in and even get a place to just offer free testing. I think of those same lines as well as when you have all these organizations and everything, a lot of times when it comes to fundraising and seeking out donors and things like that, there's a lot of overlap because there's so many organizations tapping into the same community. I think that causes a lot of overlap there. At the same time, because even though there's so many free HIV testing needs foundation and staff, from our survey, there was around 55% of people who've never had HIV testing ever in their life. So that is a very, very high percentage of people who could have HIV and not know it and be spreading it around. And so there might be a lot of duplicates, but it's because it's not getting to the right community. Maybe we should be collaborating on a lot of groups to have a main focus, HIV testing, add up to the community via the bars, via the other social organizations. And then, you know, general mixers for the other social organizations like the Rush, you know, HIV, not on-political. And I know when we have a Pride festival, there's a lot of organizations out there. And that's a once a year thing. Maybe you need more, a different type over there, you know. Randy Bear says collaboration with LGBT Chamber through networking events. So where do you think there's opportunities for services that aren't being offered by these organizations? Is there an opportunity for new services? Okay, so from the survey we did, there was about, I think, 50-something percent indicated that they were interested in Renssel Health Counseling, which is where we're also going to be trying to offer the pre-student, the student of my free life. So that seems to be an interest. So we focused on targeting the LGBT population and our main goal was to kind of connect them into a larger healthcare network. Because we don't want them to come just to us because we can't make sure of that. So there will be a way for us to connect through the Affordable Care Act, through CareLink and their county residents. So just connect them to a larger resource. We're also compounding those positions in front of their LGBTQ family. And that was a huge request at our last community engagement, yes. That was big. That was big. There were horror stories all over the world. So let's talk about our focus question for today. And this is what we're going to ask you guys to work in small groups and brainstorm on responding to, given all these organizations and the services that are in community, what could the Pride Center San Antonio do that would be a value to the LGBT community? What should they be focused on? And so what I'd like to ask you to do is to just kind of individually brainstorm for about three or four minutes. There's pieces of paper in front of you and pens. And just talk, just do a brain dump. What could the Pride Center be doing that's done in collaboration with others, that's not being done, that's whatever it is. Just do a brain dump on that for about three or four minutes. And then I'll give you instructions for working in small groups. Everybody clear on the questions? Yeah, great. What else is in the film about that? So he said, I think it's basically what we're going to call it, we're going to be in the six minutes. But that's leave it out of town. And he said, no organization development like, they're not going to make this thing. That's why they're going to be doing this. But I mean that. I don't feel welcome. Nobody's trained. A lot of these groups just don't get a lot of help separating them. Also, they're not used to the process. I do welcome new faces. They don't know how to do it. For a while, that's what I've been doing. I've been working on my whole career job. It's just difficult. And then it's me. We have a, we don't have any, we have a mission about this. That's something that's missing. All these worst things. You're going to keep this at a school. It's very difficult. Okay. Yeah. What's your name? I don't know. I'm going to name it. Yeah, I'm going to name it. That's right. Is that something that's happening here? Yeah. I'm just going to say. at those kind of meetings where we delegate the tests to certain media and then we kind of like see what we accomplished and had a new direction. Which was a good idea. We still hadn't started doing that, but that was like an idea. That's what I think we had to come up with. Without a doubt, you can do that, but I don't think you're going to be able to do that. Yeah, I meant how much better to do this. Yeah, how much better to do this. Right. How much better to do this? And I've had a lot to do for it. This is my first week. Of course, it's a week. It's only a week. So after you've done your own little list, start the top two that are really important to you, that you really want to make sure don't get lost today. And then I'm going to ask you to work together. And this is how I'd like to do it. Peggy Marge, I'm going to split you guys up, OK? It has to be just for today. Because I think you might be of one mind after seven years. Peggy, would you work with Robert? And then Tom, could you work with Delaney? That's right. And then Bonnie? Bonnie, is that right? And Liam, you would work together? If the three of you at that table would work together, you'd two together, and you'd two together. And then what's going on over here? We have three of you and a four of you. That doesn't feel like it. And a slate you did. I don't know how much it feels. And here's what I want you to do, OK? I want you to share your ideas. And then I want you to each team, some of you there's three on a team, I want you to write one idea per card using these, OK? So I want you to write one idea per card, three to eight words per card, three to eight words, not one word, not 20 words, three to eight words, write big and bold. So when we put the cards up here, we can see all of them. And I want each team to come up with five cards, five ideas. So we'll take about 10 minutes to do that. So share what you've come up with together. And then together come up with five ideas, so five cards that we can share and put up here. Answering this question, what could the five center do that would add value of the value to the LGBT community? Well, I think the main theme of my thoughts were having it common that all of the organizations write something that could be taken place of the kind of where you connect all of these different ideas that you know and see that I have this issue, where should I go? I'm going to direct you to it. So I'm going to send it where I'm going to write more out of the LGBT community. I'm going to write one out of three. Everyone out? Three to five, eight, six, eight, nine, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. That was a lot of the ones that we had connecting. We were talking a lot about that. I think there's definitely more work on the knowledge. The safe space of the physical, fitness, and pleasure in the community. the community as well as the safe space for many others that enjoy similar sports. I thought another area of the fundraising awareness and partnerships, I'm not sure if it was news but I think the one thing that might benefit the community is the group having kind of a central fundraising source and choosing the groups they would like to partner with. I guess they were able to be primary source for all of us and the board or the groups that would like to determine what three or four groups they would like to partner with each year. I think fundraising is hard for individual groups to do, there's not one central thing, there's a source that is known and the community for fundraising it helps. That's where the support is, the need for fundraising. So we're here online to create an online opportunity for organizations that are willing to host fundraising. I think you're right, in a sense that they do all sort of purpose thing. We need to have a community and events calendar, just what's going on with the diapas that's going on, what's going on, what's going on, what's going on, what's going on, what's going on. All right, thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. They also do capacity building grants for nonprofits. So for those of you that are ready to share, I'd like you to, out of the five or so cards that you put together, come up with your two clearest cards, two clearest ideas. We're going to get them all up, but we're going to do it in stages. I see. Who else am I missing? Two clearest. Thank you. All right, let's see what you guys came up with in response to what the Pride Center would do that would be a value to the LGBT community. Leadership development programming or linking, resume and career readiness training, Speaker's Bureau, LGBT database of the community, central fundraising source, coordination among organizations, meeting space, or act as a clearing house, events slash counseling line, directory for services slash groups, easily searchable, advocate the UT Health Science Center, SA, LGBTQ, no agenda there, work is on the same page, health care providers, providing large community space for meetings and networking. Any clarity needed on any of these ideas, clusters of similar ideas in response to this question, but we want to start with pairs. Pairs means two. There's always somebody who's trying to get me to make clusters, but we finished the pair, so I'm just telling you. So where do you see pairs of similar ideas? Become the hub of the community and facilitate coordination amongst organizations. Right up and left a little bit. Down, right there. Hub. Thank you. Provide a large community space and then provide a meeting space. Right there, your hands on it. I'm too close to the wall. Resource directory and online directory. One's right under you, right there. To your right, to your right, to your right. That one, and under the star in the resource directory it says... Thank you. The database and the directory of the resources. Just to pair them. Underneath the outside. To your right, up. Underneath the outside. Your other one. Up, up, up, up. I usually don't have this much trouble. I think the Speaker Bureau of Leadership Development Program might kind of go the other way. Maybe Clearinghouse and Central One. See, that's the beauty of the sticky wall. We can rearrange them. We can advocate for them. Resume in career readiness and become center of operations. Center of operations with the other two. The left circle. Right here. Right here. I said the wrong thing. They don't belong anywhere else because they're not big parents. Not yet, but we're getting close. So would you pull out two more cards that are different than what you see up here? Yeah. All right. Speaker series that I'm lining for. Yeah. That's the station of politics. This one's dedicated. Parents are related. Thank you. All right. See what else you guys came up. Improve communication about legislation and politics. Active hotline and switchboard. Create an online board for organizations. Training for different organizations. Training for different organizations. Training for different organizations. Training for different organizations. Training for different organizations. Wellness and sports. Mentorship slash support for youth. Drop in center for referrals. Post dedicated social events, dances, movie nights, etc. Reach out to the community that are advertising. Bus trips to city hall capital to advocate. Education slash outreach for LGBT allies. Bring school districts together to address concerns. Safe space training. Resources for seniors. Any clarity needed on the new cards? Do you see new payers? Because I'm into clustering now. You don't see new payers. Hotline switchboard and drop in center for referrals. Communication about legislation and politics. And bus trips to city hall. Along with the leadership development. The third one, the organizations maybe with the directory. The last two. The last two columns maybe combined. So you can just put it in the middle of them. These two columns combined? Yeah. And what's this column about? Directory. And also makes the pride center a focal point. Can I say something? On the LGBT database, what I was really kind of focusing on is information and it's a big graphic information. How many are there? How much do we earn with education? What's the medical services? That's different than a registry. Is that about advocacy? This is like any clue of advocacy that we're going to do, we're going to give you the information. Political though, because it's medical. Can I ask for clarification on that? Can we add demographic? Demographic, yeah, demographic. Center for Conventional Advocacy. So this is what we have. We know that so many families are here. We know there's kids. We know so many youth are below the poverty level. Our homeless, et cetera, et cetera. That's hard to get, I know it's hard to get. It can also be used to promote the community to employers to say we've got all of these resources. Do you see other cards that go with this idea? So if you're thinking about it from a pride center perspective and they're thinking about what would we do to add value, they might be organizing themselves around what are the common activities that we would be working on and how might we maybe organize our committees. So that might be a thoughtful way to cluster some of this. I think the coordination of organizations helping the community could be to add, reach out to the community, which is down here. That's another one we could cluster with it. Here. I mean, education outreach for LGBTQ allies could be added to that. So what is this about then, this one? Centralizing after, I don't know, centralizing after. A hub. A hub. And I think when we originally wrote under the second, under the circle, we acted as a clearinghouse, I think that we were speaking more of like the hub, like to bring all the organizations together. You mean to move it over? Yeah. So you could be on the center. Where was the calendar? Under the number sign. This one? The home sign. The home sign. I don't even know what they are. You can start a new pair with the mentorship for youth and the ring school districts together to have a younger demographic. So this is about, what is this one about then? What about youth outreach? What about you? What about adding the public heat clinic and wellness and sports together and that one could be about health? About health and wellness. The dedicated social events could go under like the provide large community space for networking and eating. Yeah. That way it could be networking and also social events, just getting together. Just social? Yeah. You know, we'll come back and name it to make sure that it's... I think it's more about space. Resume and career might go under even though it could be broader than youth. I thought it was under youth. I think it goes there. Maybe under leadership development. Which one? Sorry. Which one it goes to? You know what? Training for different organizations could go under the leadership development, like brain care. Which one? So what's this about? Training. Training. Training. Community development. Okay. So what's this one about? Drop in center for referrals, active hotline, resources for seniors. Information. That's under the hub. All that goes under the hub. All this goes under the hub. Along with the center of operations. Center of operations? That all goes together? Yeah. Okay. And really the next one, the social could be subsumed under hub too. Well, it could, but I think it's important to have a separate group. That's really about bringing everything together and that's really about creating events. So what about the database demographics cards that's hanging out here? Does it belong to the hub? I was going to suggest that it goes there and that becomes advocacy. I feel like data collection is such its own thing and maybe it's valued as its own thing, especially in the increasingly data driven world. What are you going to do with the data? The data also could be used for that central fundraising issue. It could be used for grant writing. What I'd like to see over here is historical records. Because if we keep the database going and we start learning that generating history, but something else we discussed in our database over here is about keeping historical records. It was mentioned in the database. So you still have cards in front of you, yes? So the little symbols many of which I can't describe apparently, if you would mark the cards that you have with those symbols and then just bring them up and put them up in the cluster that they belong and then we're going to come back and discuss about what these opportunities look like for the pride set. Just me or you can put them up. I tried. It's almost like a poster symbol. It's not orange. Can we get all the cards? David, do you have a card? Okay. Oh boy, oh boy. Let's see what you guys added. Start with the hub because this is the monster column. Be better connecting with local organizations, PT groups and organizations. Get other organizations on the same page. Resource center. LGBT organization fairs on a regular basis. Focus on connecting resources together. Okay. Where'd you like? Archives and historic records, images, stories, videos, art, etc. Under directory, you added central source of community news and outreach and create public resource list under social type of event. Like we're here today. Let me see. Under, did you add some? I think you did. Career vocational assistance for trans, community, LGBT, job fair, career resource links and speaker series, local and national people. Yeah. Clarity needed on any of the new course. So here's where we build our consensus. These cards are all really great ideas where we build our consensus is how we name these columns in response to our questions. What could the Pride Center San Antonio do that would be a value to the LGBT community? And we're going to start with the long one. Sometimes when a cluster gets this big, there's really kind of two ideas going on in it. So we might find that. So I'm going to read the cards again for us. Facilitate coordination among organizations. Become the hub of the community. Reach out to the community. Better advertising. Education outreach for LGBT allies. Central fundraising source. Act as a clearing house. Promote LGBT events slash calendar. Drop in center for referrals. Focus on connecting resources together. LGBT organization fairs on a regular basis. Be better connecting with local orgs. Become a center of operation to make sure every org is on the same page. Active hotline and switchboard. Resources for seniors. Resource for LGBT groups and organizations. Get other organizations on the same page and resource center. Do those all represent the same idea when we articulate to the clients what they could do? David? Actually when we're looking at it, some of the items that are underneath the hub look like they should have gone on the directory from where they have their directory. Such as the resources for seniors. Races for LGBT organizations. Where they have the directory of community resources, health care providers and so on. Did you write that? Okay. But it seems like it seems to be a breakdown between the two. Okay. Well, I think center for referrals. Yeah, center for referrals would also be a directory. No, but a directory is like a, what is it? You could drop in on a directory. It's either a full person online that you could drop in on a personal contact. I think the education that I reached for all eyes could possibly go under the training section. It looks like all education that speak this bureau that those efforts that we engage in ourselves are all related to education. Okay. Try to name this and describe what this service would be. What would we be saying the Pride Center could do? Here's another way of looking at Pride Center could. I think one of the things that this really speaks to me about is that the community needs for peace of mind. We need somebody to help us bring us along and kind of heal some of the fractured wounds that have been there. And that's not our job to do. We want to put that on one board. But at least getting the ball rolling in terms of trying to bring people together on a regular basis to coordinate what they're doing. Can you sympathize with three to eight words as a title for that long response to the question? And this is where we really want to see you guys. What do you want to be as a sign that you're in consensus about that title? Jazz Hand? Is it Giga? Did you have a question? Well, one thing I wanted to say was it seems like there's a lot of fracturing in the community. So nobody's getting their message out to the community. And it seems like if the Pride Center wanted to come an important part of San Antonio that doing something that would be a benefit to all these organizations would be a way that they could do that. So if we focus on something like the directory and offer it to have everybody in one place where they can be found on top of that then it becomes a focal point. Who could decide not to participate if they wanted their information? So what does that look like as a title? Provide directory and database? What would that look like? They would be doing for the community. Yeah, local. Yeah, it seems like a lot of these are around communication. But we're going to title each one of these clusters. Would you say just facilitate? Facilitate organizations? Facilitate organizations. The Pride Center facilitate LGBT organizations. Yes. And all of those things are facilitating, really, they're helping the groups. These not just organizations, but individuals. Facilitate community coordination. Facilitate community coordination. Facilitate community coordination. What y'all sign when you hear a title that you think represents all these ideas? Thumbs up? Okay, David says it's a thumbs up. So I'm looking for most of you to give me a thumbs up when you hear the title that works for you. Resource center that facilitates and coordinates. Resource center that facilitates and coordinates. We're looking at just that one. Just that one. Pride Center could and the remainder of that title. Build community. Pride Center could build community. Pride Center could facilitate community coordination. Facilitate community coordination. And collaboration. And collaboration. The word coordination just sounds like it's kind of a power. Become the power. That might have resistance. Facilitate community resources. It's more like a service. We want to be a service to the community to bring. You like the word facilitate? It's a little technical sounding. A little technical sounding. Convene. What are other words for facilitate? Convene. Or coordinate. Build community. Convene. Pride Center could provide centralized center location. Location for information. Just call it hub. That's what it would be. Provide a hub for community. Do you think hub does it? Pride Center could provide a hub for community. That's not a pretty word. I'm looking for thumbs. Provide a hub. Provide a hub. Provide a hub. Provide a hub. Provide a hub. First one's always the hardest. Resources and health care providers. Online directory for services. Groups. Easily searchable. Create an online board for organizations. Resource directory. Hard copy and online. Central source of community news and outreach. Create, publish, resource list. Community groups and organizations. Resources for seniors. What would that look like that the Pride Center could do? Directory of resources. Provide a central directory of resources. Yeah. Current directory of resources. Provide a current and central directory of resources. Provide a current directory of resources. Current's comprehensive. Comprehensive. Comprehensive. Comprehensive. I do like any comprehensive though because it it goes with the hub feeling, you know. Yeah. Leadership development programming or linking. Resume and career readiness training. Training for different organizations. Career and vocational assistance for trans community. LGBT job fair and career resources link. Speaker series, local and national people. Education outreach for LGBT allies. Community education and development. Community education and development. Community education and development. Community education and development. Development. I like that, but I see two sort of two branches here. One would be internal development or the other would be community themselves. The other I think is more of an outreach to the broader and more of a region about developing allies and educating them about the needs of the community. I'm sure so. Maybe to some point. Right now the the resources that go into this would be similar. Yeah. Community education and development. Community education and development. Yeah. Yes. Just thinking more is not going to work out this time. Was this one, this one? Last one, trans thought. Community education and development. Thank you. You guys are good at this naming stuff. Social stuff. Provide a large community space for meetings and networking. Provide community space. Most dedicated social events. This type of event. What do you have the pride center to do in the future? To provide a community space. Yeah. I think providing that. Also providing space. Working. It has social events. Events. Space. Space. And then it talks about events as well. Networking space. Providing space for allies. I agree. Those top two are home. To be under the home. Honestly, I kind of like the hub title better than that one. Provide a home for the community. I don't want to ruin it all. You can shut me down. I'm just saying. Some of these go over top. I just think gathering space might be. Provide a gathering space. Provide a gathering space. Provide a gathering space. Safe gathering space. Have you all seen where they're at now? We would be kind of like one of those clown cars in that office. But that will change But that will change. All right. Database. What does this look like for the Pride Center in the future? Centralized archives. Historic records. LGBT Database. Demographics. Research and demographic. Research and maintain demographics. On the San Antonio and Spirit County LGBT. Research and maintain. What about the history? Research and maintain demographics in history. Does that do it? Mm-hmm. Are you guys creating it? We're doing it. Actually, look. Research and maintain. Graphics. Research Center. Research and maintain demographics and history of LGBT community. Does that work? Yeah. So we have advocacy, bus trips to city hall, capital to advocate, improve communication about legislation and politics. Do they live anywhere else or they're out? I think it's important for them to be on their own so they don't get lost somewhere else. Okay. Could put other community education in development, but I see your point too. It's important for it to be more educational. We have the education of our internal community and the education of the external community. This one definitely goes with the education of the external community. Okay. I guess I'll just say what I'm thinking about. The challenge I guess I have with that is I think we already have three good organizations doing that work in the community. I think the center would want to support that work. Would it be support advocacy? Yeah, I think it's more I would advocate that the center would take more of a supportive role than be the lead agent in that kind of effort. So is it support advocacy efforts? Yeah, we're with Tobrines, but we can disseminate information. Support advocacy efforts? Yeah. And help advocate the UT Health Science Center LGBTQ clinic and wellness and sports? Promote health and wellness. Promote health and wellness? Yeah. Promoted. I'm trying to change it up. And the last one was about youth. Mentorship support for youth and bring school districts together to address concerns. Safe space training. Are those still unique? Do they belong? They're going to be community education and development. Yeah. I think so, yeah. For both of them? Yeah. Oh, thank you. Our question was, what could the Pride Center San Antonio do that would be a value to the LGBT community? And you guys were really thoughtful about saying, there's already all these organizations out there doing lots of good work. So what could the Pride Center do that would be a value? And you responded by saying community education and development, promote health and wellness, support advocacy efforts, provide a home for the LGBT community, provide a safe gathering space, provide current and comprehensive directory resources, research and maintain demographics and history of LGBT community. So what are you really happy to see out there? Provide a home for them. That's what I think in the years I've been in San Antonio and it's 36 now and I've seen the community in various phases and this is what we've needed all along I think a place where that would be help I hope. What did we miss? Mental health. Mental health. And you guys started like somebody mentioned mental health. It's the number one call we get. What additional advice do you have for the Pride Center as they continue their planning process to develop a strategic plan for the next three or five years for the organization? Keep you. They've got me. They've got me. I think that there needs to be a real serious conversation in the community about where the space should be because I think there are differing opinions about where the space should be. I know that exists because some people don't think where the bars are going to be. I think people think where the bars is essential and what people think and what we need to stay. Do you think that needs to be worked out in some consensus because you want to have a space that people are going to use and you want to have a space that's convenient to people and you want to have a space that's on a bus line. You have to think about where the space where that space is and getting the support for that space. Support means money too. We did a survey. We asked people where their zip code was and we had around 330 plus LGBT identified individuals answer it. We have the data so whoever wants it can do it. We also have demographics they come educational level. My sense handing out two pieces of paper right now. One is just an evaluation of how your time was spent today how well this was facilitated and what you thought about what you thought when you came in and what you might be leaving with. The other is asking you how you would like to be engaged with the Pride Center going forward and what you're willing to do and it does have a box on there that says do you have some history or perhaps some information that you can share to help the Pride Center and of course you're welcome to add your content information so we're looking for people to attend events to help with planning to serve on the board to provide resources to provide history so the second sheet is asking you to help articulate that and the first one is just an evaluation we did take this feedback very seriously we summarized it from the first session there will be a third session so if you know people that weren't able to come to this session or the first session please Robert what are the instructions for where to find it? So if you can go to our Facebook page or on our website Pride Center or you can RCP it's on March 21st which is two saturations today and that one's going to be held at a Southside location at the Penn American Library off of 35 and so if that's there we also will have a Spanish translation available so if you don't know anybody that prefers to speak in Spanish or to participate in Spanish that is going to be available as well so that will get us March 21st so if you don't know anybody that's interested and if I may also plug one I think this weekend as somebody previously mentioned on Sunday we will be having a burlesque show which is a direct benefit to Pride Center San Antonio and it's a great show this is the third year that we're putting on the St. Patrick's Day fundraiser it is Sunday so if you don't know anybody that prefers to speak in Spanish it's a great fundraiser it is Sunday at 6 p.m. I believe not tomorrow not tomorrow it's just next Sunday at 15 on the 15th and that's at 6 o'clock and that's at 9 o'clock and all the proceeds from the door and pretty sell tickets go directly to the Pride Center as well so of course everything can be found on our Facebook and on our website any other closing comments from you or your fellow board members I just want to say thanks for having the meetings all over town was important no I just well I guess yes I appreciate it first off for Robert and Brian for putting me together thank you all so much for this and also of course to Jennifer for providing her time and expertise in the pre-planning session with her we were just wowed so we knew all of you all would be too and she's wonderful so the yes and just so you know at the end of this process once we do the third one and then we kind of regroup and figure out how best to disseminate what we learned and we are going to have another meeting which we hope all of you will be at and we'll all bring an extra friend or two we'll have a larger best plan I believe is to have a large community actually able to present what we learned from all three sessions where we re-invite everybody to come back together and it will just be one but hopefully we can make it and we'll figure out when taking time and location for that but thank you all so much thank you and now Kast just so you know immediately after this this video will be archived and available online so if you know people who couldn't be here and couldn't watch it online go back and replay it yourself it will be on now Kast is there a way we can encourage people to share ideas if they watch it yes actually there's a message field right next to it on our site also the comments once we get it up on YouTube there will also be YouTube space for YouTube comments thank you awesome that concludes today's session again I appreciate everybody being here your input is valuable to us like I said at the beginning we don't want to offer services or programming it's not going to be useful to the community so by y'all engaging and being president that is definitely going to help us out if you can fill out the forms and get those into us or just to be on the table we'll pick them up if you didn't get a chance to sign in please do so that way we can make it where we future events or programming that we start to offer thank you all for being here wonderful beautiful I'd like to my department my department we are called arts agencies and artists they're currently making an announcement I again I work for this meeting and we planned arts agencies and art local artists so tomorrow night at the Pegasus from 6 to 9 one of our artists is going to be performing a one woman creator piece called they call me the AIDS lady and it's totally free she works she had worked for AIDS and now she's back with the AIDS Foundation so this is based on her life I'm more working with youth and working with different demographics throughout the city and it's a really beautiful piece it's really really poignant and funny and scary and everything so if you can make it out there I know not everybody likes underbarred but this is one of the reasons that you don't usually appreciate her at the moment and also she's and I think on the first she's going to be performing and no no it's just Tuesday she'll be performing it at the Walgreens on military and I can't think of the press right now but she's going to be performing it in the parking lot at the Walgreens so if you're interested let me know and I'll give you the information for the one over at the Walgreens thank you thank you so we have we have we have the show