10-18-06

icarus staff meet

will notes
ash facil
sasch soup

agenda

website remain 
fundraising gettign list
left turn
radio show
nyc
fh
jobsearch , promo
will gone date
cc situation
seed grants
office
acupunct at fh
grant report / fundraising tool
support man plan / illicit feedback
distro
budget


*********** check in

sasch - doing well, health ins issues, nyc happening
will - doing well, heading to portland, had fun at herb convergence, reading Moby Dick
ash - recovering from cold, trimmed baby goat hooves, brain doing better, might be moving, reading nebraska author fireworks, lakota nebraska

*********** website

sasch needs to take look at mission state, welcome to website, etc.
send mission state to collective list.
ryan interested doing drupal forums


*********** fundraising

ittleson grant report due

writing cover letter / funder update with appeal for funders - or next thurs. sasch and ash on this. fits into blog entry, can fit in to email we send update abotu us -- links to openplans put reports/ update links in email to members. forrward dev docs to fountain. sasch / ash talking with fh dev people. revisit next quickly.

will -- research online donation alternatives for website.

********** Left turn article
writing report - will if you're inspired go for it.

**************** radio show idea --
flight risk radio - aviation safety?
changing name?
involve greater icarus constituency
will write up agreement
talk more later.

*************** nyc update
fh deal - 
big wellness space going in at fountain house. wellness coordinator guy. very supportive.
acupuncture potential really high
sasch in touch with ruth who organized wellness fair
important to move carefully on any $ arrangements with fh, staff take a look at. 

IMPORTANT - ashley -- protocol on spending more than $100 -- must talk to staff first

ash maybe go back up to nyc next week also

************** nyu update
4 interns; sasch coordinating with them. wants to submit report to administration at end of semester. interns doing interviews/gathering stories about school services, suicide, stress - report say here is what students say, here's peer models, here's our vision of peer ed model, make recommendations. get nyt article. have things set up for spring semester. every weds icarus student grp meets.

put up nyu contact as local grp contact. liz's email.

brad lewis, nat'l office -- all good resource.

will -- how to use google spreadsheet on openplans. add ashley to it; give sasch icarus info.

********* job search

haven't found anyone yet
not hire temp person but focus on promoting job
pushing back hire date -- not nov.
need to respond to all applicants, keep in touch with them.
sasch will fwd to staff acct
talk next week about protocol
question - are we holding off on hiring interim temp person?
need protocol
need to treat delicately, respect people
godo to focus on what we want this person to be doing

********* advisory council idea

sash - let's follow up on this


********* credit card question
can we use collect init / bank acct / oryx help