E-090 · Theme 2 · Member Roles & Purpose
Project Innovation Brainstorm
Use Project Innovation Brainstorm to connect members' strengths and interests with worthwhile roles that have clear boundaries.
Developed further: this summary now draws on an initiative-specific internal editorial draft and attributed references. Human review has not started and will open only at the Full-Corpus Review Build.
What could this idea change?
It turns member energy into visible, organised action that is easier for other people to join.
It may suit: Members and community volunteers who may take part, plus the people organising the work.
A simple way to start
- Define the challenge with the authorised partner or affected people, document what is known and uncertain and agree what the brainstorm can and cannot decide. Who could lead it: Challenge sponsor and authorised community contact
- Select participants and formats that bring relevant experience and varied perspectives without presenting attendance as representative of an entire community. Who could lead it: Facilitator and access lead
- Publish the challenge, contribution-use choices, conflicts, criteria and follow-up process and provide materials in advance through accessible routes. Who could lead it: Session sponsor
- Facilitate divergent idea generation before structured testing, make assumptions visible and prevent immediate voting from becoming approval or silencing minority perspectives. Who could lead it: Independent facilitator
- Assess ideas with community authority, evidence, equity, feasibility, safety, access, cost, capacity and conflict criteria and identify explore, combine, redesign, defer or close outcomes. Who could lead it: Authorised assessment group
What should we look for?
- After 90 days, review Project Innovation Brainstorm. Look for roles being filled by choice, responsibilities being understood and useful work being completed without avoidable overload.
- Challenge brief showing evidence, community authority, uncertainties and decision limits.
- Participants contributing through varied formats without one role or voice dominating the record.
- Every retained idea assessed and assigned a reasoned disposition by the published date.
- No idea announced, funded or tested before the relevant partner and governance approvals.
Before we say yes
- Does it fit a real local need?
- Can people take part safely and fairly?
- Are the facts, permissions and Rotary branding right?
- Who will lead it, and when will we review it?