GSAFE Board Meeting Agenda
November 21, 2005
5:30 PM
1822 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro, NC 27403
Board Members
Heather Beeson
Tom Clarke
Thad Eagles
Diane Gill
Annette Green
Jim Lagattuta
Tamara Mason
Gary Palmer
Beth Phillips
Tony Philpott
Chris Voorhees
Review of Minutes Dated October 17, 2005 .............................................. Heather Beeson
Treasurer’s Report ........................................................................................ Tom Clarke
Chairman’s Report ................................................................................................. Gary
Membership Report ............................................................................................... Gary
GSAFE Student Network ..................................................................................... Annette
• Committee Composition
• GGF Grants Appropriate use and procedures. Mid year reports and compliance.
• IRS Compliance.
• Future GGF Grant requests
• Have a College & University Students Section and a Middle and High School Section
Holiday Celebration ............................................................................................... Gary
• Who will be in charge?
Worknights
• Need to establish evenings when interested volunteers come together to work on different aspects of GSAFE.
Finance/Accounting Specialist Needed
• Someone who understands how to create and maintain budgets.
• Someone who can help us create a uniform treasurer’s report.
• How do we do this?
Media/Communication/Eletter Committee ................................................................. Gary
Committee needed.
• Qualified information for eletters.
• Parameters for eletter.
• Schedule for eletter.
• Name for eletter?
Membership/Promotion Committee .......................................................................... Gary
Committee needed. Responsible for:
• Invitation letter. Postal and internet formats.
• Thank you letters.
• Prepared membership report at each board meeting.
Data Base Management ......................................................................................... Gary
• Who will do this? • Interaction with eletter services.
• Do we need to explore and buy a program?
Board Development Discussion ............................................................................... Gary
Chairman’s Report
Activities
October 18, 2005
Donna Allred, counselor at Southeast HS called for assistance. Her principal is being difficult in their attempt to restart the GSA there.
October 20, 2005
Distributed GSAFE flyers about our October Film Review at the TBPG meeting.
October 25, 2005
GSAFE Student Network Meeting
November 1, 2005
GSAFE "Film Festival" meeting at UU. 18 people attend.
November 2, 2005
Gary's does presentation to counseling class at A&T.
November 15, 2005
Annette & Gary do a presentation to an education class for Dr. Lara Lee.
November 16, 2005
Gary attended a Guilford Non-profit Consortium reception.
• Removal of hyphen in logo
After using the logo I realized that people quickly adapt to saying the name and that the hyphen, while helpful at the very first, is quickly made unnecessary. The logo works better without it.
• Non-profit status update
Our application has been sent in and received. It was then sent to Kentucky for review.
• Guilford Non-profit Consortium
I attended the reception for this group. I had heard about it from Tara the Community Foundation. We may want to consider joining as a way of integrating into the larger community.
• NC Non-profit Center
I joined this with the hope of it helping me with our non-profit application process. It wasn’t helpful in that manner. Much of their information is geared toward “staffed” non-profits. The cost was $60. www.ncnonprofits.org The following are our confidential codes.
login nccn0405 (case sensitive)
password: growth (case sensitive)
• Eletter services
I have explored two services so far. I am having difficulty getting the eletter to look the way we want in their HTML formats. I created the format in Word but both Word and Front Page use a variation of the HTML coding that doesn’t translate well to their templates. Prices run from 15-30 per month.
• Banking
Set up with BB&T. Need signatures.
• Feedback on 5:30 Board Meeting Time.