FW: Monthly Committee Updates
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Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 21:48:51 -0400
Subject: Monthly Committee Updates
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Bookkeeping (Molly Peterman)
Records on excel are updated through 9/14/14
Available cash = $107,670 (excluding $1,750
transferred to Fair Foods and additional garden tour payments being reviewed)
Total active member-owners= 625
Member-owners in good-standing= 491
Member-owner with equity past due = 120
Total Amount past due = $12,507 (note: this is
reduction of $200 since last report)
Business Outreach (Dana Mitchell)
BO added Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Health Services to the Shop South Philly Program, bringing our total up to 36 and meeting the goal of adding 4 new businesses for FY15. BO will continue to reach out to new businesses regarding the SSP program as well as existing partners to strengthen our relationships.
Grants (Rose Malinowski Weingartner)
No report submitted
IT (Nat Cauldwell)
No report submitted
Leadership (TBD)
No report submitted
Legal (Josh Richards)
No report submitted
Marketing and Communication (Jen Honovic Herczeg and Carolyn Huckabay)
External Communication and Community Engagement
- Reached out to local media regarding the Garden Tour and received lots of great press
- Participated in Interview with South Philly Review on the status of the Co-op and Tour and were featured in a great article: http://www.southphillyreview.com/news/features/South_Philly_Food_Coop_grows_with_gardens-273944611.html
- Maintained and updated our social media networks: FB, Twitter, Instagram
- Compiled and sent out monthly e-newsletter
Membership
- Did not actively work on recruitment but did acknowledge new members via social media
Committee and General Co-op Goal Support (Internal Communication)
- Maintained Internal Garden Tour Calendar and shared with P/E Committee and Michael Lane
Marketing Support
- Promotion of Garden Tour and Ticket Sales
- Design of Garden Tour Program Booklet, Promotional Posters, Post Cards, Tickets and digital files
- Compiled and wrote Blog Posts and Email Blasts to promote the Co-op and Garden Tour and sell tickets
- Utilized Blog and Social Media to thank and recognize sponsors and Garden Tour partners
- Assigned Committee members to photograph the Tour and live post via social media
Member Loan Committee (Josh Richards)
No report submitted
Membership (Cassie Plummer)
The Membership Committee is currently working with our Outreach Coordinator (OC) to conduct an email and telephone outreach follow-up to people who RSVP'd or attended the garden tour but are not members. A telephone script has been created. The team hopes to create an email/phone outreach volunteer team that can periodically conduct telephone outreach to recruit new members. The plan is to have the OC do these initial calls to test the script and see where we need to tweak the process to provide training to a team of volunteers.
The Membership Committee provided the planning template for the General Membership Meeting to Board Members Joe Marino, Anna Kisiel, and Matt Stern so they can proceed with planning. The committee will be working with Bookkeeping to reconcile membership data and print certificates for those who have reached $200 membership investment since the last time of certificate printing.
There have been some recent changes to NationBuilder membership structure offerings - specifically, NB now only offers monthly recurring payments which affects our 2 year payment plan (it's now billed $8.33 per month rather than $25 every 3 months). Membership is working with IT and Operations to come up with a solution to this.
Operations Committee (Jess Calter)
Operations Committee continues to meet jointly every
other month with the Real Estate Committee to ensure good cross committee
coordination on the search and negotiations for a space. Committee has been
working through the financial pro-formas on the locations that the RE committee
is pursuing. Committee members are meeting with TRF to solidify funding sources
for the real estate negotiation process.
Also Emily on the operations committee has
undertaken a research project around food justice tactics existing co-ops
utilize. She has had several conversations with co-ops and other community
organizations. She is continuing research and will compile into a comprehensive
report of findings.
Programs and Events (Sarah Radcliffe)
The Programs and Events committee proudly reports the
results of the 2014 Garden Tour. Held on September 6, the event boasted 23
Garden sites, 200 tickets sold, 38 sponsor businesses, and raised a total of
$12,180 for the Co-op. P/E thanks all those that volunteered their time,
assisted in recruiting sponsors and gardens, sold tickets, and otherwise helped
make this the most successful Garden Tour to date, exceeding the overall
budgeted income by 16%.
This fall, the committee will assist with the October member meeting, host a Soup Swap in November, and aim to replicate the popular Greene Street Coffee Roasters tour in December. Sarah Radcliffe will be stepping in as committee chair.
Real Estate (submitted by Angel D’Ippolito)
No report submitted
Speakers Bureau (Katy Travaline)
Nothing has changed for the Speakers Bureau from last month.
I'm hoping to talk with the new Outreach Coordinator again to get some things moving in the near future