From benaxiom at gaian-mind.org  Tue Apr 25 20:26:06 2006
From: benaxiom at gaian-mind.org (benaxiom@gaian-mind.org)
Date: Tue Apr 25 20:27:27 2006
Subject: [-GAIAN-MIND-] Important Updates
Message-ID: <60276.127.0.0.1.1146021966.squirrel@gaian-mind.org>

Greetings to members/supporters of the Gaian Mind community. Here are
some
quick exciting updates:

1. We've officially obtained non-profit status as project of the
International Humanities Center. This means we can recieve tax
deductible donations of funds and resources, equipment etc. If you are in a
position to donate or have friends or family that might be, please just go
to the front of our webpage: http://www.gaian-mind.org and follow the
donation instructions.

2. Beginning in May we'll have Natalie, a graduate department
anthropologist at UC Irvine moving in. She'll be sharing a room with
local conscious film maker Oriana.We'll have more info up
on the amazing wonderful projects they've done on their own and initiate
here at the Gaian Mind soon.

3. Wendy from the UC Santa Cruz Community Studies department will be
moving in July first to do a 6 month 40 per week live-in internship.
Learn about this here: http://gaian-mind.org/cs/node/1181

4. We really need local friends and supporters to help us with staffing
the shop. Right now most of the collective works full time off-site to
keep the place alive. Now that we're a non-profit there's hope that
we'll be able to get donations to cover the costs of running the center, but
right now we're not able to make progress because we're bound by our
work schedules. We really need folks to volunteer to hang out in the shop,
eat vegan food all you can eat, use the internet and long distance phone
FOR FREE! We just need people there so we can have the shop open for used
box customers.

We can't really increase marketing/advertising for the box business
(which we made over $1000 a month running last summer), until we know that
the shop will be staffed. So if you're a college student that would
normally pay to sit at a coffee shop, be charged for food, internet, etc.
Come here and have access to lots of resources free. You'll just have to
sell a few boxes a couple times throughout the day.

Please call us 562 552 9930 if you'd like volunteer. Keep in mind, if
you're in school there are lots of creative ways for us to help you get
academic course credit, extra credit, community service credit etc. for
being here and helping out!