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The intended audience of the group is any and all members of the MIT community, but targeting those that are involved in their respective religious organizations on campus. The MIT collective outside of these groups, however, is highly encouraged to join and diversify the depth of our understanding and the breadth of our community.
How do you plan to recruit new members?
We plan to recruit new members through (a) asking religious organizations to advertise within their group, (b) attending religious services or text studies to introduce ourselves and invite people to join, (c) sending out emails for our general body meetings to dorm lists and religious announce lists, (d) distributing posters around the campus, and (e) by setting up a booth at the ASA Activities Midways throughout the year to encourage new members.
How large do you expect the group to become? Why?
We hope to include as many people as are interested in religion and interfaith activities in the MIT community. We expect to start of relatively small, but increase in membership as we talk to more people, and as we involve more religious groups on campus in our interfaith activities. We hope to become a group of ~50 members not counting the belief groups on campus that are involved regularly in our events.
What has already been accomplished?
We have already written our constitution and voted on preliminary leadership. We have 14 enthusiastic members who are excited to begin and truly believe in the interfaith cause. We have a wiki on wikis.mit.edu that is open to viewership and will hold our first few announcements and events before we put together a website on scripts.mit.edu. We are working on organizing our first Faith Focus and our first interfaith dinner for Fall 2011, and developing our logo and flyers for publicity.