WING! Start Up

Starting a WING! Group in your area of Idaho

The Idaho Coalition of Natural Health is here to help you create a WING! meeting in your area of Idaho. Your WING! Coordinator will be responsible for communicating meeting information for inclusion on the ICNH website and for maintaining the e-mail address created specifically for your WING! location.

1. Bring together a core group of people to create a board.

2. Select officers for the WING! committee: Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary. One of these should be designated as the WING! Coordinator.

3. “WING!” is a monthly meeting sponsored by the Idaho Coalition for Natural Health. The cost to attend is a $5.00 donation over and above the cost of any meal. Donations are collected and receipts are given by the area WING! Coordinator at each meeting.

4. Find a central restaurant location with a private meeting room to be used monthly. Be sure there is easy access parking around this location during the chosen meeting time. (Breakfast, lunch or dinner meetings are a way to reach people who are otherwise unavailable.)

5. Choose the day, time and week in the month to meet according to availability at restaurant location. Wednesdays and Thursdays tend to be the best days to meet. The meeting should be about one and one half hours long. Sample: The third Thursday of the month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

6. Locate a guest speaker to present on a topic of interest regarding natural health care.

7. Call, e-mail or send out invitations to the natural health care community in your area.

(A.) Use the local holistic newspapers, natural health care directories and yellow pages to find practitioners to be invited.

(B.) Add meeting information and contact numbers to the ICNH website, practitioner web sites and any community web site that provides free advertisement of local events.

In preparation for the meeting:

The WING! committee meets to prepare agenda one week in advance.

A. Meeting Agenda

1. Welcome by Chairman.

(a.) Introduction to your organization.

2. Explanation & collection of $5.00 donation to your organization.

3. Introduction of WING! committee & Guest Speaker

4. Introduction of attendees with 60-second “commercial” about themselves and their work.

5. Networking - Business card and brochure hand out

6. Health Freedom news and updates

(A.) Information from your organization, i.e. Event info, legislative updates, news from ICNH and CNH

7. Guest Speaker presents for 20 to 30 minutes.

8. Discussion, ideas, questions, and next meeting dates for “WING!”

9. Encourage participants to become members of the Idaho Coalition for Natural Health.

10. Meeting Adjourns

For assistance on creating WING! in your area, contact us!