Hard News

Margarita Bell, our contact with the city – called with some disheartening news. She said the state was reviewing the MOA that we had with the city and they wanted to make the following changes: “Please see excerpt from the grantor regarding the MOU and let me know if you would like to proceed. ·         Per…

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Agenda 4-27-2012

Additions: Logo contest? New Board Members Joining us: Welcome, welcome!!! Thanks for joining our efforts. Dave Miller Danny Bramer Kathryn Birch Changes in language of CDBG Board website protocol: We have some new board members joining us, and it seems that most everyone is navigating the board website o.k., but Patrick will take a few…

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Director’s Notes 3/31/2012

Overall: It felt like we took some giant steps forward this month in relationships with future partners. Still – no dull moments and God is good. Meetings this Month: Fairbanks Chamber We were introduced on 3/13 Arctic Alliance Arctic Alliance’s Interior Delegation meetings Fairbanks Housing and Homeless Coalition FHHC’s Youth Focus Group of which I have been asked to…

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Agenda 3/21/2012

New Board Members CDBG Update Resolution + letters Public Information / Awareness Human Trafficking Presentations, Dolly Caswell, April 27-30, Community Presentations Advertising/psa/flyers Sponsorships (shared expenses) Alaska Air Logo Contest – for FYA Newsletter and Mailchimp list Monologues Financials One credit card or two? (CMI only, OR CMI/CC & CMI/FYA) Taxes $1000.00 gift from Alaska Alpha…

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AmeriCorps & The Door

After the Arctic Alliance meeting yesterday, the new JPSOS AmeriCorps director talked to me about how things are changing for the state wide AmeriCorps programs. It was a good conversation and just confirmed something that had occurred to me a few months back:  the AmeriCorps members are no longer a viable option for us because:…

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