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Establishing: Maintaining a Record of Local Contacts, Partners, and Meetings

Supplement your database with a log of phone calls, correspondence, meetings, and other exchanges with your partners. The MRC requires a substantial amount of networking. If there is no record of these contacts, a significant portion of the history of these relationships can be lost, particularly when there is a change in MRC leadership. A log of networking activities can serve as a history that can help update others on the MRC’s background.

The log does not have to be extensive, but it should:

• Include dates, times, places, individuals involved and their organizational affiliation
• Note key topics for discussion along with any agreements, conflicts, or stalemate issues
• Help partners reconstruct their current status, whether in agreements or unresolved conflicts
• Function as a useful history of the MRC’s progress (this can be used for training and orienting new volunteers and writing funding proposals and other reports)

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Last Updated on 8/23/2006