Volunteerism
When you know the answers, which are at the end of this article, it becomes quite obvious that we simply could not accomplish all that we do without valuable help. If you’re interested, now is the time to get involved as we begin a new fiscal year July 1 and kick off our next campaign August 23.
Some of the changes we are excited to report for the coming year include our new Executive Committee leading our board. These members are: Tim Woodard, President (Commerce Bank); Brandy McIntire, Vice President (KBSI/Fox23); Jane Myers, Treasurer (The Bank of Missouri), and Quantella Noto, Secretary (Southeast Missouri State University). These volunteers devote a minimum of 4 hours a month to our organization, and we are grateful for their leadership.
We also are forming an Advisory Council of area representatives from the four counties we support who are knowledgeable in each of our focus areas—Education, Income, and Health. We won’t list all 24 of them here, but they include education administrators, city leaders, members of partner agencies we support, and former board members. Information from this group will be instrumental in guiding our Strategic Plan, which is being revised this year. You, too, are a critical part of the process.
A key element of our Strategic Plan is to obtain feedback from our community and those we serve. When you receive a link to a survey in the next few months, please take the time to give us your opinion. We exist to serve Southeast Missouri; we must know the needs of our citizens and how you believe we should address them.
This campaign and fiscal year also ends our three-year funding cycle to our current partners. Although 2019 seems far away, all too soon we will send Requests for Proposals (RFPs) open to all agencies and services that support our mission. With the help of many volunteers, we will go through the meticulous process of reviewing and ranking applications. If you are interested in helping with this process, let me know. Please forward this to potential volunteers and organizations seeking funding, so they can become familiar now with the work we do, the work our strategic plan reveals we still need to do, and what we will be looking for when the time comes to identify future partners and programs.
As you can see, we have a lot of excitement occurring this year, and there will be more to come! Thanks for joining us in the fight to Live United!
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