Tell us more about the Board of the cafe...

Summary of Exempt Purpose/Mission:  (full mission statement here)

• To encourage the Love of Jesus Christ in and around Mapleton-Fall Creek.
• To raise the economic, educational, social and spiritual levels of the residents.
• To foster and promote community-wide interest in the concerns of the residents including sickness, poverty, crime, environmental degradation and racial issues.
• To expand opportunities for residents to own, manage, and operate businesses, develop entrepreneurial and management skills and to assist in obtaining financial support for business.

• Next Meeting...  Dec. 13, 2008... 8am.
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• Saturday,Nov. 8th... 8am
  • Minutes????
  • Attending:  Dave, Elease, Bob, Joe, Shawn, Chris, Neil (and late guests Nick Bolden & David Metzger)
  • Billboard lease update.  [Be sure to add something to our tickler-file re renewing/cancelling the lease in 2009?]
  • Financial Report... bottom line = $3,400 needed.
  • Cafe Timeline of Activities (esp. Nov 20 fundraiser, and Dec 5, Lord willing, Einar & Lena return to the neighborhood)
  • Future officers? 
  • Communications?  'Cafe Chatter' (former newsletter, per David Metzger)... and Nick Bolden would be anxious to help.
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• Oct. 11... 8am.
  • Attendance: David, Esther, Joe, Shawn, Elease, Neil, Bob, Chris.
  • Tres. Report.  Action: FinTeam to convene Oct 19 at Shawn's.... 5pm.
  • Grant-writing?   Shawn's leading... Nita McCormick, Allison King ____, Mary Provence, Natalie Boehm, Sara Blandina,  (who at Raphael)... (Shawn is also headed to CCDA shortly, to workshops.)
  • Re David Scott's status re Inactive Bd Member... The board voted unanimously to remove David from the board.
  •  Cafe Timeline of Activities (Neil)
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• Meeting... Saturday, Sept. 13... 8:00am
  • Attendance, David, Esther, Neil, Joe, and Chris (5 of 9 members constituted a quorum).
  • Motion passed to form a FinTeam comprised of Bob, Neil, Joe, Esther, Elease... to meet this month to help build a budget-proposal.
  • Motion passed to form an Ethics Committee comprised of David Voelker, Joe, Elease and whoever our legal-rep is or will be.
  • Cafe Timeline of Activities (Neil)
  • Slide-show of FHL Week photos... especially re the Urban Regional Team... (We'll take this down shortly, so quick enjoy now.)
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    Uploaded on authorSTREAM by indychristian

• Board Function?  Modeling Core Values In The Neighborhood... and making high-level cafe decisions accordingly.

   

  • Fruit of the Spirit is... Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness & Self-Control.
  • Good Communication... and developing our communication skills, even during board meetings.  Attendance, pay attention, listen first, not interupt, respect others, share openly.  (Inquiry... believing that "we only know in part"). 
  • Preparation greatly enhances communication.   (2 hrs/mo meeting must be optimized... by preparing in advance.  "Take captive every thought."  and "Prepare your minds for action.")
  • Vision...  (a future for the Mission... which is.... )

• Current Board Members
  • Elease Womack, Ministry Leader
  • David Voelker (Board Chm)
  • Joe Reaves (neighborhood pastor) - FinTeam
  • Alex Wilson  (neighborhood businessman)
  • Bob Shaw (Corp. Tres.)  -- FinTeam
  • Neil Cox (TechMission program at the cafe) (Tech Lab stuff) -- FinTeam
  • Chris Provence (neighborhood housing ministry)
  • Esther Horvath-Fer (cafe advocate) -- FinTeam
  • Dan Gushee  (recently resigned)   (Grace Place - still trying to determine if this 'ministry' is a subset of the IBJ.)
  • (resigned...) Liz Strodtman (Sec'y)
  • (recently resigned...) Tom Strodtman (ex-officio, as Legal Agent)
  • (resigned...) Harold Hoopingarner
  • David Scott (terminated board member)
  • Christine Hurns (status unknown, presumably resigned)

• The Board Function... 
  • Fiduciary responsibility to ensure the success of the cafe mission.
  • Certain legal responsibilities to the state of Indiana and IRS.
  • Meets monthly... 2nd Saturday of each month.
  • Typically hands-on servants and ongoing advocates for the ministry.

• Corporate Documents
  • ubcafe_IRS_prelim_501c3_1998.pdf
  • ubcafe_IRS_final_501c3_2001.pdf
  • ubcafe_articles.pdf
  • ubcafe_bylaws.pdf
  • ubcafe_certificate.pdf
  • Form 1023 -- Application for 501(c)... (we need to get this online, per Glen Peterson's blog)
  • Amendment to Articles of Incorporation (Dan says we amended the fiscal year ending-month... but possibly didn't refile amendment with state.)
  • ubcafe_deeds.pdf
  • ubcafe_signlease.pdf (this is a former lease, by former owners of the parking-lot property -- it remains to be seen, legally, if we the new owners are obligated or a party now to this lease... stay tuned.)
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• The Corporation Assets...
  • Title to the property... (see pdf above)
  • Title to the parking-lot property... (see pdf above)
  • Bank Account -- is under the care and control of the corporate treasurer -- Bob Shaw.
  • Tech Lab Computers -- are owned by the cafe.  (value is nearly $0 though)  Software licenses are owned by the cafe, and administrated by Neil Cox (board member) & Tom McCormick (key tech).  [Note:  The program itself, currently called 'Ask Anything Saturday', was initiated by volunteers who moved the program from another location in Indy.  See full details... 'About Ask Anything Saturday'.

     

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• The Strategic Plan...
  • [someday when we're ready to generate a stratplan, this .pdf could be helpful -- from Michael Porter himself (at Willow Ck Conference, re Newark poverty issues)]
  • Timeline, Budget (Resources), Action Plan and Assessment.

• Cafe Timeline....   
  • Cafe Activities
  • [btw, here's the citywide Indy Timeline]
  • July -- Faith Hope & Love Week (including Urban region projects... especially Neighborhood Flyers Project, Mon. July 21st and pre-preparation).  Also we're the HOST Location on Thurs, 7/24.
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Future Agenda Items?

• Can we get our corporate docs scanned & online?
• Especially republish our Mission for chronic review.
• (so we can start determining how we can objectively know if or to what degree we're accomplishing the mission... or not.)
• Can we get someone to lead re 'employment' portion of the IBJ mission?
• Per Bob, we need to research and 'book' previous costs to be capitalized on our 'books'.
• Chris' proposed 'Education' schedule.
• Nick Bolden (DeVos grad) proposal re youth hiphop Bible studies. Gang initiative and prison population, etc.
• Great Neighborhood Grants Available
• Grace Place (Dan Gushee) -- Prison-Related housing ministry.
• Ministry Report(s)
  • Anniversary
    • Video (?)
    • Photos online
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  • "Ask Anything Saturday" (TechMission program)
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    • Tech Lab Computers -- owned by cafe.
    • Internet Tool Bin -- new capabilities to acquire... and program to do it. 
    • The Begats -- look who all is getting involved.
    • Who's Who -- see the newest photos online
    • CityReaching.org -- another partner in this.
    • Bibles -- given away another half-case.
• Food guy?