Organizing Distribution Teams

In this doc you'll learn: some suggestions for efficiently dividing labor between participants.

Organizing Teams

For efficiency, having different roles to cover different tasks is advised. We used the following:

Strategy

• help with overall strategy
• act as the point of contact on the core team
• initiate/coordinate collaboration with outside organizations.

Coordination

For this role, having a few people cover different areas or regions of your town/city is helpful.

• vet PPE requests
• build relationships with recipients (since it’s likely that you will see the same individuals or organizations reach out for help over time)
• assign couriers to deliveries.

Distribution

• physically pick-up and deliver the PPE to the recipients, based on instructions from the Coordination team.
• For our group, we mostly partnered with individual courier volunteers and Masks For Docs couriers to deliver.
• Your group may find individual volunteers for this, or partner with another organization.