Listed from newest to oldest:The Volunteer task force invited prospective service volunteers to an informational meeting. They explained what service volunteers do and how to become one.

• Our Outreach task force appeared before the Mayor’s Neighborhood Association Council and introduced Bellingham At Home. We are arranging to speak to the individual neighborhoods throughout the spring.
• Task force work continued and preliminary membership details were presented for  feedback from volunteers and prospective members.
• At the Senior Center’s 2016 Housing Options As We Age event, Bellingham At Home was a featured presenter. In a panel discussion, Elaine Cress talked about staying in our own homes, with Village support, as a viable housing option. Approximately 40 attendees came to Bellingham At Home’s breakout session, led by Steve Morris, where they learned what a Village is and how Bellingham At Home will enable older adults to live in their homes. At an encore presentation, led by Elaine Cress, we covered the same information for people who had not be able to attend the Housing Options event.
• At a follow-up meeting of task force volunteers, Steve Morris of the Leadership Council encouraged group rapport and presented a talk explaining what our Village is about. Task Force group met briefly to plan their work. 
• Prospective volunteers met in December to meet Leadership Council members and learn about the 10 task forces. They signed up to join the work of preparing our Village to launch in the spring. The Bellingham Herald’s Whatcom View reported the event and explained the background of our Village.
• Six members of our steering committee attended and were inspired at the annual gathering of the national Village to Village Network in Seattle.
• We began contacting organizations that offer services for older adults in our community. Our survey will identify services currently available in our community.
• We agreed to work together with the Palliative Care Group at PeaceHealth in our efforts to survey existing service providers.
• We applied for and received a grant from Chuckanut Health Foundation. The proceeds from the grant, $5,000, are being used to cover start-up costs such as printing and travel.
• Over the spring and summer months, we represented Bellingham At Home at farmers markets downtown and in Fairhaven.
• We received generous donations from our Founders Club, community members and our own steering committee. These funds are being used to cover start-up costs. Fund-raising will be an on-going effort for Bellingham At Home.
• In a major public relations outreach, the Bellingham Herald published an article on Bellingham At Home in the "Prime Time" insert.
• For the Feb 25 event we printed a tri-fold brochure that informs the public of our progress to date and contains a membership form and a request for donations to help defray expenses during our start-up year.
• At our invitation, a representative of a Seattle "village" spoke at a conference at the Senior Center on February 25, highlighting the benefits of "villages" and giving us an opportunity to reach out to potential new members through an information table.
• We applied for grants to help cover expenses during our start-up year.
• We recruited five individuals, who together with two members of the Planning Committee, now form a Steering Committee that is charged with guiding the development of BAH through 2015, with the objective of launching the village at the beginning of 2016.
• We carried out an email survey of the Bellingham residents which showed that 90% of the 98 responses we received expressed their preference for remaining in their own homes as they age.  Additionally, 20% of respondents said they would be willing to help develop our village.
• We joined the national Village to Village network, giving us access to the experience and "lessons learned" of over 150 villages around the country.
• We’re focusing on Bellingham at this time, reserving the development in Whatcom County for a later phase.
• We negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding with the Whatcom Council on Aging which allows us to use the resources of the Bellingham Senior Activity Center during this development phase.
• A six-person Planning Committee was formed and began meeting in October 2014. The name "Bellingham At Home" was selected for our "village."