Today a friend and I are going to host a community event to reach out to our local community. Neither one of us wanted to spend a lot of our own money, so we decided to keep things simple, as well as to ask our community for help.
Here’s what we did:
Our community outreach is to connect with the people in our community that were originally from another country. Our little community has approximately 22 different nationalities represented, so we decided to celebrate this by hosting a potluck in the local park. We asked everyone to bring a dish from their heritage that they’d like to share with everyone. By doing this as a potluck rather than say, as a barbecue, the costs of food were much lower and our responsibility to provide food for everyone was greatly reduced. Now we just had to fill in the gaps and anticipate needs.