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Agenda

12:00 PM – Call to Order – Daniel

12:05 PM – Review and Approve Agenda – Daniel

12:10 PM – Approve Consent Calendar – Daniel

• 10.15.2020 Board Meeting Minutes
• Executive Director’s Report
• Communications Director’s Report

12:15 PM – Old Business – Nancy & Daniel

• Strategic Plan Update – Nancy will take the final steps to finish the Board’s Strategic Plan and offer a draft to the Board on the January 2021 board call
• Determine dates for “board training webinars”: one January, one February, one March, 2021.
  • *Anti-Racism Training – Jerimiah J. Sims, Ph.D. – Board Training – “Minding the Obligation Gap”
  • Advocacy Training
  • Fundraising Training
• JUST an FYI – Formal Election/Vote for Executive scheduled for December call
• Bylaws update

12:45 PM – New Business – Nancy and Daniel

• Regional Council Leadership Team-up virtual meeting
• Regional Council Webinar partnerships with CaUFC – $1,000 to play

12:55 PM – Schedule next meeting for January 21, 2021

Strategic Plan Next Steps

• Nancy Hughes will finish a draft document
• No new docs since last month
• Review Lease – in Google Drive – password protected
• Create a matrix – quarterly update/status of programs, activities, grants – Done
• Develop support materials for board-members’ networking and outreach efforts
• Legal efficacy – advocacy – previous versions in Google Drive
• Nancy visited archives for previous annual fundraising goals and methods – in Google Drive – password protected
• Collected all official/board approved policy and operational documents for board members review – in Google Drive – password protected

Documents remain for board member review. Assignments and timelines for other tasks for Subcommittee #3 have not been finalized so Nancy Hughes will do that for the committee. This list could be expanded and include board members’ assignments.

*Potential Topic ideas for Jerimiah’s training: 

“Equity Session”

Each session is custom-designed for the audience and what their goals are, but generally, it will be 1.5+ hours and consist of about three of the following components:

1. Introduction to Equity
2. Defining Key Terms
3. Interactive activities, small group discussions
4. Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset ==> Antiracist Growth Mindset
5. Disruption for Good (why it is necessary to disrupt the status quo and institutionalized practices to be equity-advancing)
6. Intro to Diversity and Inclusion
7. Implicit Bias
8. IMPACT Equity Toolkit Training — this is a longer training that provides simple tools (think “equity lens”) for looking at your own policies and practices and discovering inequities, finding evidence, and then making recommendations for change

*Advocacy Training:

Bolder Advocacy Proposal

AFJ’s Bolder Advocacy program would be pleased to provide a 1.5-hour online training session for your board of directors and guests. The Bolder Advocacy trainer will conduct a prep call with you or someone you designate to help us better understand current (or planned) advocacy activities and refine the training content. Training participants will receive handouts of the customized PowerPoint slides, a link to the recording which will be active for 60 days, and links to relevant Bolder Advocacy publications.

AFJ will work with you to determine mutually agreeable dates. You indicated that the third Thursday of February or March at noon would be preferable. Is this correct?

The training will cover:

• How federal tax law permits lobbying for charities and how lobbying is defined;
• How federal tax law permits lobbying for charities and how lobbying is defined;
• One easy step most charities can take to maximize the amount they’re allowed to spend on lobbying;
• Yearly lobbying limits for charities;
• Tips for taking advantage of the narrow definitions of lobbying – which will help charities make the most of their lobbying limit; and
• The application of these rules to ballot measure activities.

The cost of this training will be $1000.

*Advocacy Training:

Bolder Advocacy Proposal

AFJ’s Bolder Advocacy program would be pleased to provide a 1.5-hour online training session for your board of directors and guests. The Bolder Advocacy trainer will conduct a prep call with you or someone you designate to help us better understand current (or planned) advocacy activities and refine the training content. Training participants will receive handouts of the customized PowerPoint slides, a link to the recording which will be active for 60 days, and links to relevant Bolder Advocacy publications.

Fundraising Resources: Online Resources –

• Grant Station – we have a membership here
• Network for Good
• Classy – this is our web-based funding portal
• philanthropy.com 
• SalesForce 

What are Klein & Roth’s fees?  
Our fees vary depending on the kind of work an organization wants. Keynotes generally range from $2,500 to $5,000, day-long trainings are $1,800 to $3,000, fundraising program assessments range from $4,000 to $7,000, and consultation or coaching is billed by the hour at $185 to $250. Our clients are mostly small to mid-sized social justice organizations and we will work with you to keep the fees reasonable and affordable.