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Onboarding New Members to the Co-op

  1. New members express interest by filling in the Interest Form.
    • The responses to the interest form are here.
    • Maybe: this interest form gets turned into a mailing list.
  2. Every month we schedule two onboarding meetings, in the second half of the month, on two different days:
    • ideally a weekday evening and a weekend day. Suggestion is Wednesday evening and Sunday evening.
    • Make sure at least one person is available for each of these
  3. Send out an email to the interest form announcing these two days.
    • Email should include a way to sign up to the events. See sample form here
    • Should link to:
    • Hi all!

      Greens & Beans Grocery Co-Op is hosting a new member onboarding session <date> at Luther Place Memorial Church. It will take about 15 minutes. If you are interested in becoming a new member, we would love to see you there! Sign up to attend <Insert your form link here, or tell them to apply to the e-mail>.

      In the meantime, check out our membership agreement and FAQs.

      Following the onboarding, there will be an opportunity to meet other co-op members, listen in on a discussion, and shop our products. Bring your own reusable containers, or use one from our collection. 

      You are receiving this email because you are on our mailing list and/or have filled out our interest form. Please let us know if you no longer wish to receive these emails and we will remove you from our list.

      Thanks!

      - Your friends at Greens & Beans Grocery Co-op
  4. Send a reminder email about the onboarding event a day before it happens
  5. At the event
  6. After the event
    • Note who attended in the interest form.
    • Send everyone the following
      • Dues payment info 
      • Hi!

        Thanks for attending the Greens and Beans orientation yesterday. To join, next steps are as follows:

        1. Agree to  our membership agreement.agreement.
        2. Pay dues.dues.

        Once you've done that, we'll add you to our google group, invite you to our WhatsApp, the task signup list, and you'll be able to shop at the store!

        Thanks,
        Simon
  7. Once they've signed and paid dues: 
    • Send them:
      • Shopping times
      • Task sign up spreadsheet
      • WhatsApp invite
      • A link to sign up to this wiki
    • Add them to the google group
    • Add them as a customer in Airtable