February 2025

Agenda February 2025

  1. Mimi Blackwell presentation 30 min.
  2. Jim Welcome
  3. Susan Executive Director report
  4. Business
    1. Approve minutes
    2. Susan’s annual review
    3. Governance: Recruiting new board members, succession of officers
    4. Finance: report on finances, meeting with JPM, budget v actual, balance sheet
    5. Board objective setting for year

Priorities- as I understand them

  • Quaker organizations- founded by, Quaker board, Quaker identified, values-based
  • Direct service to aging individuals over funding staff which provide secondary gain to residents or capital projects
  • Small, community-based organizations – under $1M budget, board represents population, program input from community
  • Support change not maintenance
  • New/creative solutions to identified problem – in some way a new approach
    • Replicable
  • Variety in types of issues addressed

Review of questions from May retreat

  • How long to fund organizations? Different Q/non-Q?
  • Right balance of new and returning
  • What do you want to know from orgs that got general operating support-reporting?
  • If continue GOS, how much $
  • Should we reach into NYC and State? Or focus on NJ/ Eastern PA.
  • Where do multi-generational spiritual deepening programs fit?
  • Ideas for deepening relationships with grantee partners without adding burden on them?
  • How do we learn what Quakers need?
  • Conversation with NYYM about bylaws, needs?

Lutheran Settlement House final report

ARTZ Philadelphia final report + budget + lessons learned

New Community final report