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Joining the Berkeley Parents Network
Who can join the list?
BPN's main mission is to provide a forum for
discussions about parenting
and raising children in the Berkeley area.
Therefore, to join these newsletters, you must
be (now, or about to be) raising or caring for children
"within commuting distance" of Berkeley, California.
Also see Why do you restrict membership to local parents?
How do I subscribe to the list?
To join the Berkeley Parents Network mailing lists,
go to the
subscribe forms.
Please note that, in order to join, you must be (now, or about to be) raising or caring for children
"within commuting distance" of Berkeley, California.
No, there is no subscription fee. We are a grass-roots organization
run by and for parents, and it is free to join. We do not accept
advertising and we do not have any corporate sponsorship or
government grants.
No, you don't have to live in Berkeley, but you do need to either
be about to move here, or live
"within commuting distance" of Berkeley. We consider this to include
San Francisco,
about as far north as Richmond/Pinole, as far south as Hayward, and as far east as Lamorinda.
About 90% of our members live in the East Bay cities of
Berkeley, Oakland, Albany, El Cerrito, and Richmond. Therefore most
of our discussions center on this area. We have few subscribers
outside this area so you will not find many resources for daycare,
schools, etc. in outlying areas.
We are called the Berkeley Parents Network because we began as
an organization for parents who work at UC Berkeley. For a history
of the list, see How did it start? above.
We encourage anyone who takes care of children in our community
to join the list. This includes
grandparents, child care providers, doctors, and teachers. Anyone who is able to
participate in a discussion about managing and caring for children is welcome.
It is important to us that members are able to discuss parenting and caring for children, and we require that of all subscribers.
As much as we'd like to, we cannot subscribe other members of our
community because we are a volunteer-run organization. We don't
have any funding and we don't have a staff. In order to keep the work
manageable for our volunteers, we must limit subscriptions to
people in the community who have children or are caring for
children.
However we do archive many of our discussions to our public
website for everyone.
We accept subscriptions from people but not organizations. If your
business or organization is related to parenting or children, and
it is in the community, then anyone at the organization can
subscribe. But we don't subscribe institutional email addresses
such as "Admissions Office" or "PR".
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