Volunteer Board Planning Session

Our second event was another roaring success. I am so proud. Carrie and her team made it a very special Veteran's Day weekend at the VA nursing home. (The cheese tasting fundraiser was a great event itself). So, the Board is Organized and has six great ideas (three more to go). We have to get moving on our January service project now and Earth day planning will be kicking into high gear soon. Lets take a couple hours to brainstorm and come up with a time table and plan to implement our great ideas. Celia will be taking the lead and helping us to focus on our goals and the steps we need to take to make those goals happen. I hope you can all make it. If you missed the earlier meetings and want to help out, come on out. We can use all the help we can get. See you there. Carl Projects: 2. Dog hike fundraiser for the PSPCA. Sue, Karen and Susan are the lead people on this event. They will work together with Em (from spca). We will charge people $15 to go hiking with their dog on guided hikes through a local park. Wissahikon and Valley Forge have been mentioned. Sue has a lot of ideas to add on like photos, homemade treats, a raffle, sponsorship and a happy hour. Sue and Susan will need help on this. It is scheduled for October 5. 3. Veterans' Day project. Rico, Sean, Celia, Vanessa and Susan are the leads on this one. The date is set for November 9. This is a project to help local veterans. It is not set in stone. It could be an activity based event like hiking or outdoor sports. I look forward to hearing what will happen. I am sure they will need help. 4. Holiday Service – Sean, Susan and Amy are the leads on this one. No date is set. But, we decided to do this in January when the rush of holiday volunteers subsides. The idea is to work in a facility serving the poor. If we get in a bind for ideas we could do Philabundence again. As this project gels they will need help. 5. Earth Day Cleanup – Carl and Raija are the lead on this. This is our flagship service project. Our goal this year is 150 volunteers, to secure donations of food for all volunteers, to secure donations of trees and plants for planting and to expand it into at least one more county. We could use two or three more people to help on this. 6. Recreation Center Cleanup – Sean, Rico, Amy and Celia are the leads on this one. This is really exciting and I am very much looking forward to seeing this one come together. We will be working with the city to fix up a rec center so kids have a safe place to go. This will be in June.