OFFICERS/MEMBERS ON CONFERENCE CALL:
Hanah Cho, Sherri Ly, Kakki Reynolds-Lewis, Kathy Park, Eun Kim, Peggy Hu, Emma Carew, Patranya Bhoolsuwan

AGENDA:

Old Business


1) Trivia Bowl
• Total proceeds: $4,757.67, net: $3,557.67
• Last minute donation: $200
• Total of 4 Sponsors


2) Eun Kim gives summary of accounts:
• $10,000.51 (as of 12/31) - Current Account status
• Brought in $4,782 (includes trivia bowl), but also spent $6,768
• Biggest outgoing expense was under scholarship and stipend (convention, internship grants). Catering and food ($1,700+)
• Scholarship money- $3,000
• ELP, only one applicant this year…photographer for Reuters (suggestion: any time money is spent, it needs to be voted on by the board)
• Deposited $200 donation from the Vietnamese-American agency, $400+ from Acteva (for registering)
• Checking account: $2,490
• Total: $10,051 *Note: We are not getting any money from National for membership dues (stays in place for 2 years)

New Business:


1) Budget for 2010:
• Includes workshops/programming/internship stipend/professional stipend/misc. programs
  • Suggestion: stipend recipient should receive second half of $$ after volunteering.
  • Must volunteer or help organize program/and or an AAJA-D.C. event during the 2010 year (help marketing, help select auction items or sell raffle tickets, etc.)
  • minimum of 10 hours of volunteer time
  • Patranya and Emma will work together on scholarship info./stipend/getting the word out
  • Keeping the stipend(scholarship/internship) up to $2,000
  • Professional stipend (last year was at $2,500)
  • Convention and professional stipend for 2010 up to $2,000
• Programming and Events (food, rental fees, etc.)
  • Last year was $2,000
  • This year will remain $2,000


2) 2010 Program Events
• Patranya says AU is willing to work with us for a membership drive/student mixer. (*FYI: Members as of Jan. 25: only 50)
  • Consider working with other campuses
  • Tentative date/ April or sometime spring?
  • prize for someone who signs up the most new members, or even members who sign up more members
• Phone-a-thon?
  
• Happy Hour Event for AAJA-D.C.
  • weekday downtown: Wednesday or Thursday
  • Possible date: Tuesday, March 23
  • Café Asia possible happy hour location
• Scrabble Tournament. Sometime late April? Can usually raise $500.
• Google for Journalists event. Seminar on how to use the search engine more efficiently
  • Tentative date: May?
  • **Someone will need to Contact Google and find out what programs they can provide
• Gannett 2-day bootcamp
  • bring your own equipment
  • Sherri will present a proposal on what they envision
  • will have to charge members - fee based on membership
  • Date: early June
• Annual Media Access Workshop
  • brings nonprofits together
  • after the June workshop
  • suggest these groups become associate members
• Spotlight (Emma)
  • journalism awards for students, get local professionals as judges
  • tentative budget of $100
  • reach out to professors as judges
• Trivia Bowl/ Fall
  * Money allocations were voted on by the board without any objections.*


3) National Update (Sherri)
• membership is down across the board with AAJA; 40 percent down from last year
• where to come up with money to make budget?
• Boston convention was a massive deficit
• borrowed money from the endowment/ paid it back with interest to cover the gap
• incentive to get back old and new members
• we are being told to fundraise to make up for the losses

Upcoming Events:
• Chinese Potluck Dinner- Feb. 21st at Peggy's House
• Next Meeting in April ?? (will set up through Doodle.com)
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