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2021-04-21 Leadership Cadence

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21 Apr 2021

Participants

@Eddie Brown

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Notes

Tax Filing

@Eddie Brown

Fundraising Update

@Eddie Brown

      • People say yes initially, but don’t follow through with promise

    • Merch?

      • This is a big time commitment to create a top level experience

    • Name levels of support and recognize on website

Executive Director Search

@Eddie Brown

  • Michael: No ED, but fundraising role

  • Stephanie: Awaiting her response on acceptance

  • Challenges

    • Is there a misunderstanding about our needs and a “typical” board seat

    • Club House: Is this an opportunity to drive volunteerism? Visibility for PDAP.

Volunteer Cycle

  • Website looks good

  • Conversations with other Volunteers is great

  • Look for data (which is missing)

    • People fall off at this point

    • Our critical shortfall

    • Damages trust with our organization

    • In progress and we are close!

Tech Update

    • We have several data sets: counting both agencies scraped and data sets

  • @miles Has made major FE contributions

    • Simplified for copy additions using Markdown

  • We have PDAPed (new verb)!

Volunteer Appreciation

  • Can we add this to the site to provide recognition?

    • Funding

    • Volunteer contributions

  • Github is a great way to provide recognition and legitimacy for open-source

Outside Organization Recognition

  • Tech soup

    • Need 501(c) status

    • Gives access to Tech Soup resources

  • Amazon

    • Allows employees to see group in volunteer application

      • Can donate money and time

Documentation

  • Finalizing descriptions of our tools and process

    • Kanban to Github is how most open-source work

      • Ability to prioritize/re-prioritize publicly is important

    • Working to make available to the public

    • Risk analysis/risk matrix - what are our biggest threat?

      • Focus on board

      • Other groups

Treasury

@Eddie Brown

  • We have the funds to cover our startup costs

Action items

  • @Eddie Brown Circle back with Executive Director position

Completed registered agent duties and tax documents are filed

and Eddie are looking for fundraising opportunities

What is the relationship/experience with people approached for fundraising?

sign up for a Patreaon

Getting people to commit to the board: Are we targeting the right people ( is this right for your thoughts?) Structure/Size

Has made significant contributions and are advancing our efforts.

- Map proof of concept of our current data

Would like to check verbiage

and working on our DB security posture/architecture

Reach out to Patrick about fundraising

Ask Kristin about Club House

List organization in Amazon employee volunteer portal

Status update to @kristin and product roadmap to public

Exploring open-source Kanban (Github, others…)

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