The Adult Life Training, Inc. Board of Directors meets annually at pre-announced times in ALC Community Room, 3301 E Coliseum Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN 46805. Minutes for each meeting are appended below, with most recent on top.
ALTi Minutes January 17, 2023 5:30 PM
Present: John Nash Jr., Paula Echols, Jolene Nash, John Nash 3rd
Chair: John Nash Jr.
75% present (John Nash 3rd arrived after the meeting started), there is a quorum, we may proceed with business
Minutes taken by John Nash III
Old Business
None
New Business
Vote to retain officers
Chair entertains motion to retain existing officers
Second Jolene Nash
3 in favor, none opposed
Financial report – John Nash Jr
Cashflow ($5,335 in, $5,332 out), $in-Kind $162K in, cash $278 in, grants $5k in, total $174K
We have about $3 more at end of 2023 than end of 2022 and basically can not spend what is left. Just over $2,500 remains and that is the minimum balance to prevent our financial institution from charging us $60/year to deposit with them.
Balance Sheet:
• In-kind donations are large and sustained
• Direct donations are more modest, $5k grant from 3 Rivers, a bunch from individuals.
Move to accept Paula Echols
Second Jolene Nash
3 in favor, none opposed
High points of 2023 activity
Employment – still shut down “due to covid”
FPU – new web site, google ads, 1,007 families on site license, 7 new coordinators, 15 classes, 258 families in our classes
Virtual Lunchtime FPU classes were very popular.
Want more in-person classes
Coaching – new web site, google ads, issues with agreement, staff intervention in progress, one FCMT training license left unused and will remain good until used, first FCMT license that was used by John Nash Jr will remain valid through year 2024
- We can provide coaching services, and train new coaches with the Ramsey FCMT curriculum, but we can not use the Ramsey Preferred Coach advertising / referral product until legal issues with their agreement are addressed: the Preferred Coaching advertising / referral product agreement is still un-signable after six months of them stonewalling us
- One manager at Ramsey reached out to us to understand the problems with the agreement and get clarification on the intent of the problematic sections so that we can proceed with their Preferred Coach advertising / referral product.
- We can use their Financial Coach Master Training (FCMT) product to train coaches but warn the coaches to not sign the Preferred Coach agreement until the issues are clarified.
- Detailed Discussion (Private) of three concerns. UPDATE 22 JAN 24 8pm Ramsey provided clarification in an email. Reviewing with Directors & Advisors.
Anticipated 2024 activity
Employment – lab issues, resolvable if gvt lets up on covid restrictions
When possible we will resume employment training UPDATE 24 JAN 24 Started process with Catholic Charities to resume hosting SCSEP Senior Aides for computer job skills training.
FWHA is a valued partner – they need financial literacy, employment help, resume help, and job skills training
FPU – last year for unlimited site license (God’s hands), expect 2,000 families this year, will run 3-4 sets of 7 classes again, continue Lunch ½ hour classes, we want more In-Person classes, 2/8 class has special speaker Sunday before then invitation for church members to join the class after service
Run three (3) or four (4) groups of seven FPU classes – One (1) Monday evening virtual, Five (5) Lunchtime virtual, one in-person Thursday evening
Might be the last year that we can have an unlimited site license – future years are limited, unless something changes. There is no mechanism whereby we can control who gets the licenses and at the present rate of utilization they would be exhausted in about three (3) weeks. We would need a method of assigning a license seat only to those in our classes if another unlimited license cannot be purchased.
Push more in church for participation – Google ads are already doing a good job of bringing in diverse members nationwide – want more in Allen County / Fort Wayne in-person classes
3Rivers Grant
We may need to delay applying for the 3Rivers grant until we know if we can use the Ramsey Preferred Coach product
Coaching – goal 10 coaches locally, must resolved agreement issues, must decide on pricing (currently $200/month for planning session, $100/month for followup session
Follow up projects:
- After FPU class is complete
- Establish support groups for FPU graduates.
- Meet monthly for support, sharing success stories, asking questions, group coaching
- Maintaining momentum and connection
- 3×5 follow-up cards asking people how they’ve improved and progressed this month
- Show results in church services to build and maintain momentum
Discussion
FW Housing authority wants our help w/ teaching older people computers, etc
- This would give us a place to do stuff in-person at our facility or at FWHA residences
- Need to identify the room(s) we would use in our facility due to the ongoing construction projects
- May have <$500 costs for tables & other furniture, and electrician to install code compliant outlets for the computers
- We have 7 computers, 6 of which fully work, 1 needs repairs.
- Two have been upgraded to naturally work with Windows 11, Seven need to be upgraded eventually: they are 13 years old but very serviceable
- Used Rufus to install Windows 11 without mandating TPM v2.0 and UEFI hardware upgrades, which are inappropriate in a public computer lab
The ACP free phone / tablet program is coming to an end in April, no new signups past February
Biggest roadblock to helping more people is volunteers to lead classes
Any other plans we should push?
- Not until we know what’s going on with the classes.
- Need to generate more volunteers.
- Our best path to recruit is through our FPU graduates.
6:30 adjourn
Motion to adjourn John Nash 3rd
Second Jolene Nash
unanimous favor, none opposed
ALTi Minutes January 17, 2023 7:00 PM
Present: John Nash Jr., Paula Echols, Jolene Nash, John Nash III
Chair: John Nash Jr.
Minutes taken by John Nash III
Called to order: at or about 7:03 PM
Opened w/ prayer
President’s Report:
See report
Issues in Question:
Need to determine if we should add a teen program.
Need to determine how to proceed with budget & assets
Program Results
2 important programs last year:
FPU: great results, with a huge increase in attendance and impact on attendees’ lives.
Employment Training: almost nothing could be arranged in the post-COVID environment.
FPU:
Many times higher turnout.
We believe this to be caused almost exclusively by external factors
In 4Q2022, John Jr. realized Google gives an advertising grant, which was useless to reach those unable to use a computer at all, but it could help with FPU.
Now we’re getting 1-3 people a week from the Google ads.
Most of those go through the self-study program, not in-person.
Retention has gone from losing several people by the end of each class 2 years ago to gaining several people by the end of classes this past year.
Attendees have begun opening doors for further outreach efforts & community partnerships.
Unanimously voted to receive report.
Decisions on Officers:
John Nash – Will continue as CEO, etc. and performing the duties of Treasurer.
John III – Will perform the duties of Secretary, not Treasurer.
All other directors retained in their existing roles.
Financial Reports:
See report:
E-guile automatic formatting resulted in unreliable & weird results on printed report. The assets portion should be OK, but the equity side looked very odd.
Net difference in cash position: +$1,836.26
Major Donors:
3 Rivers Federal Credit Union
Abundant Life Church
Fort Wayne Door
In-kind donations: Over $100,000 in value for services.
Microsoft
Google
Total donations ~$68,000 with in-kind included.
Windows 11 issue:
Windows 11’s posted requirements demand essentially a new computer, because it needs TPM & UEFI, which our equipment doesn’t have.
Replacing our computers would take around $7,500
Microsoft has a program called Rufus which explained how to make the new OS work on our existing equipment without hardware changes.
The Licenses line item is mainly for the Ramsey programs.
Calculated a $1,800 donation from & payment to ALC as in kind donation for “fair value for the rent of the room.”
Insurance:
Do we need to add liability insurance for $500?
Would not cover theft or damage to our assets
Only covers liability, e g. if someone were injured somehow.
We determined that this sounded like an important consideration, especially given ALTi’s interest in expanding to financial coaching.
We determined we would continue to consider this issue for later.
We are considering offering financial coaching: Ramsey offers a training curriculum.
12-18 lessons.
They recommend charging clients $200 / hr. for coaching.
What about the legal requirements for financial advice?
Ramsey says we definitely wouldn’t need special licensing because we’re not giving financial advice.
John III strongly recommended against taking his word for it, but if it’s done right, it should be kosher
Having a source of direct income for the organization would help.
Budget
Need to discuss budget:
(Report was in the other room, could not get the exact #s during the meeting)
(Budget report with exact #s will be emailed to directors later this week and they will offer their feedback by email.)
Synopsis:
FPU: cost $2,500.00 this year for the unlimited license – Next year will be limited to 200 people unless Ramsey changes their policy
FCMT: Financial Coach Master Training: would cost $1,295.00 for each person trained
The site license we bought for this year & last year was unlimited.
Next year will have a limit like 200 seats, then a higher charge after that.
Our numbers are high enough that they’re probably concerned that we’re not paying enough for the scale we’re handling.
Need to negotiate as hard as possible to keep this pricing low enough to enable our target market to actually access the program through us.
Workbooks are $180 for 18 books – $10 a book our cost.
Recommend marking up & offering for close to the MSRP
Ramsey’s asking price for this resource varies widely & unpredictably
Must also change what we’re saying on the site to match these terms.
Recommended using a common MSRP with a note giving the date on which that was the price.
Can also ask for a donation in-kind from a printing service to handle printing workbooks?
Need to ask for donation from participants based on the value of the class they’re receiving for free.
Given the scale of printing we’ve been doing, it would be beneficial if we found an in-kind donor.
But cutting back on printing of handouts is a more certain & beneficial strategy.
Ramsey is clearly doing testing to determine what prices to charge – pricing goes higher & lower frequently.
Ramsey teen / High School education program:
3 packages quoted for different participation levels.
Do we have people who want that service?
It’s a popular search term
Some percent of our population has teens they’d like to have learn the same material.
This program is designed & priced for well-funded schools
Grant application is January 30th, need to decide what goes into it before then.
We agreed that there’s no harm asking for 3 Rivers to grant funds for us to trial the teen program
Budget:
Requesting funding, as discussed above.
We don’t need to liquidate our PCs after all because they can be made to work with Windows 11
We’ll continue to do repairs & maintenance as needed.
Advisory Board:
Tina Turnbow & Jennifer Sexton have agreed to work as the advisory board. One more person is needed for more diversity of perspective.
No meeting has been arranged yet.
Jennifer says she’s already experienced w/ grant applications & writing.
Short Discussion –
Ways to cut printing costs
Pushing workbooks
Printing as-needed at the beginning of class
Anything else which needs to go into the grant?
Nothing but the FPU, Teen program & coach training.
Determinations:
Needed to determine if we should add a teen program.
We determined that we should apply for this as part of the 3 Rivers grant to pay for it and give it a try.
Needed to determine how to proceed with budget & assets
We determined that the lab equipment does not need to be liquidated in the immediate future because it can be made to run the Windows 11 operating system, so it won’t be rendered obsolete.
We determined to continue applying to 3 Rivers for the annual grant by the end of this month.
We determined to explore adding financial coaching & inviting class participants to make recommended donations to provide direct support for FPU & ALTi operations
We determined to cut back on the amount of material we print for classes & encourage adoption of pre-printed workbooks to greatly reduce printing costs.
Action Items:
Meeting Follow-up:
John Jr. will email Budget report with exact #s to directors later this week done
Directors will offer their feedback by email.
John III will email minutes to John Jr. & he’ll post it. done
Finances:
John Jr. will write & submit 3 Rivers Grant application as planned, with help of Advisory Board.
John Jr. will continue to look into adding liability & other insurance coverage as appropriate to Adult Life Training’s activities.
ALTi will continue using already-printed class materials & then print more when participants need it, not in advance.
John III & John Jr. will explore additional donor solicitation efforts after Q1’s projects are settled.
Financial Coaching:
Jolene will consult with a relative who has been in Ramsey’s financial coach program to learn more about it.
? will research legal requirements for safely practicing financial coaching of the sort advocated by Ramsey.Recruiting:
Continue to keep eyes open for effective teen financial coach who can provide peer support.
? may ask Emily Nash if she has any interest in taking an Auditor role for the organization at some point in the future.
Adjourned by consensus at or about 8:17 PM
Next meeting to be Sunday, Feb 16 after church.
Agenda for Directors meeting Jan 17, 2023 7:00pm EDT in Community Room.
After COVID required downtime, we return
Present:
00:00 Call to Order
Old Business
-none
President’s Report – John D Nash Jr
-Last year’s performance – John D Nash Jr
–Financial Reports 2022
–Employment training
–Financial Literacy training
–Prior Years
–Year 2022
–Impact / mechanics of outreach
–Discussion
Motion to Accept report
-Vote: Favor: 0 Opposed: 0 Motion Carries / Fails
New Business
Retain or change officers
-Vote: Favor: 0 Opposed: 0 Motion Carries / Fails
Advisory Board – John D Nash Jr
-Discussion
Needed Help – John D Nash Jr
-Treasurer / Book keeper
-Institutional Advancement
Proposed 2023 budget – John D. Nash Jr
-Discussion / Changes
-Vote: Favor: 0 Opposed: 0 Motion Carries / Fails
3Rivers Grant Proposal – John D Nash Jr
-Discussion
Other Business
Next Meeting Date and Time
-Discussion
Motion to Adjourn
-Vote: Favor: 0 Opposed: 0 Motion Carries / Fails
00:00 Adjourn
Jan 19, 2020 16:30
Present: John Nash, Paula Echols, Jolene Nash, John Nash III (Sabbatical: Philip Lock)
Chair: John Nash
Minutes taken by John III
Called to order: at or about 4:30 PM
Short Discussion – John updates
Need to determine what to do this year – or what not to do.
What has worked for us in the past? In what direction do we feel led?
Reviewed board member suggestions.
Last year’s Senior Aid program went well. It’s dominated our efforts for the past decades. Monday sessions were cut because the ALC organization that donates our occupancy is now closed on Mondays. Our program has been an enormous success with 1/3 to 1/2 of all participants finding unsubsidized work as a result of their participation.
Because unemployment rate is so low, there aren’t enough participants to continue the Senior Aid program right now. We need to adapt our program offerings to fit the community’s current needs.
We’ve provided Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University (FPU) class since year 2016 which our participants found very helpful. Thus far, having data only from those larger groups with three or more families (many are 1-2 families at a time) our FPU members have paid off $520,492 in non-mortgage debt WITHIN THE NINE WEEKS OF THE CLASS SESSIONS. Adult classes are showing good success, but youth classes using the Ramsey Foundation material was not received well by the youth participants. This material is used in some public schools. We may have more success by adapting the adult lessons with material presented by a live person rather than the provided adult or the teen videos. We’ve experimented successfully with holding “flex” adult FPU classes through Skype, but most participants need to meet in-person to get the real benefits of peer support and ongoing encouragement to stick with it and apply the material. Both formats should be used when appropriate to best fit the class member’s needs.
FPU Memberships are a for sale item sold by Ramsey Solutions that provides web site access to the videos and many useful budgeting and investment resources. We’d love to be able to give away memberships, because many of the people who need this program cannot possibly afford the normal $100 – $130 membership fee. We will need grant support to achieve this. Those participants who are reasonably able to pay for a membership should do so. Those who cannot will need help, with discounted fees or a way to pay for it after the classes, when their finances have picked up to the point where they’re able to afford help others. Cited some addictions recovery programs as an example: their participants need to pay for treatment as part of taking responsibility for their personal resolution. Requiring some type of payment is essential to the growth and behavioral change – and anything which is received free is valued less than things which have a clear personal cost. Debt is nothing different and recovery and future sustainable success needs a personal sense of accomplishment in taking responsibility and overcoming debt.
We need more participants to become FPU trainers and to help more people as many more are now employed and have income. The financial services debt marketing engine will seek out these new wage earners and aggressively market debt to them using all the traditional baits: you’ve arrived financially when you are in debt with credit cards, student loans are “good debt”, everyone has a car payment, and other self serving disinformation designed to get and keep community members forever giving up most of what they earn to lenders. More than 80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck regardless of how much they earn. This must end!
The unparalleled success of debt marketing weakens our communities because local money is being shipped out of State to foreign investors instead of being spent locally, and it stresses and demoralizes our community members. We need to convert capable families who complete FPU to pay it ahead by teaching at least one FPU class per year with our help as needed, thus expanding our reach and maximizing our impact. We have access to the leadership training material from Ramsey Solutions and can provide training and support to help new trainers start out and succeed.
Post FPU followup: we discussed next steps for classes we can offer FPU participants when that course is completed. We need to find ways to help sustain progress made in FPU class and to better market/advertise the classes to bring in new people who need help. We’re receiving some volunteer assistance with advertising FPU through the benevolance of the ALC organization that donates our occupancy. Other local 501(C)(3) orgs will likely participate also if we take the point and lead.
Need day-time FPU activities to fill the gap left by the completed Senior Aide program while keeping open the opportunity to start another SCSEP Senior Aide group should one need our help, not only night-time activities for FPU.
Need to work on a leadership training and succession plan and begin bringing in more volunteers, especially those willing and able to take on leadership responsibilities in the organization with a burden for an appropriate area of community service in which we are not yet helping and that does not duplicate resources already available. This is part of defining our longer-term path.
Discussed Friday evening youth gaming / STEM group. Have tried several approaches, but not getting traction on STEM teaching yet: the social group interactions and group gaming in various ways is working nicely. Not clear what direction will best entice our youth to experiment in new STEM areas that they will find interesting. Requests for feedback haven’t produced a clear direction.
Need to prepare next period’s projections and budget. This past period has been successful.
Action Items:
John III to research programs dropped by FWCS for adulting skills formerly taught to teenage foster children.
John to reach out to contacts to ask about similar opportunities
Outside volunteers to work on improving FPU advertising.
Requested help from youth to get more feedback for youth program directions.
Adjourned by consensus around 6:00PM
Next meeting to be Sunday, Feb 16 at about 16:30.
Friday, Jan 25, 2018 7:30PM
Adult Life Training, Inc. Board Meeting
Present: John Nash, Paula Echols, Jolene Nash
Chair: John Nash
Minutes taken by John
Called to order: 7:30PM
Short Discussion – John updates
Directors passwords & login information for their Office 365 accounts
Explanation of Directors Group on Office 365
Explanation & credentials for Microsoft Home Use Program for our employees / Directors through our Software Assurance rights for Office 2019
Discussion : should we drop our connections to Google totally and move our email to Office 365? Undecided – leave it alone for now and use the temporary junk domain alti.world for Office 365
FPU (Ramsey Financial Peace University curricula) dates – Winter Group #1 starting Tues 2/12 7pm (taught by John Nash), FPU-Teen Group #2 starting Monday 3/12 7pm(taught by John Nash or possibly a youthier person), and FPU Group #3 (taught by Christ Ford) starting week of 3/5 with day of week, time, and venue to be decided by Bro. Ford. Instructors will be paid this time, $25/contact hour, $450 per complete FPU series as 1099 per class contract. Group #2 will start week of 3/12 instead of 3/5 as the Nash family must be out of town for 1st grandbaby’s #1 b-day celebration. 3/5 starting date is to coordinate with the ALC organization that donates our occupancy.
Adjourned by consensus 8:30PM
Sunday, July 29, 2018 4:23PM
Adult Life Training, Inc. Board Meeting
Present: John Nash, John Nash 3rd, Jolene Nash
Chair: John Nash
Minutes taken by John
Called to order: 16:23
Short Discussion
Prayer for wisdom
Financial Literacy training
FPU (Ramsey Solutions Financial Peace University curriculum) & GC (Ramsey Solutions Generation Change curriculum) Start Thursday 1st week October
For GC parents should pre-register their high school student, PayPal $30 each to cover our costs
Advertise FaceBook & Google pay-per-click
Friday Gaming Group
Kids bring snack food
Open after ALC youth prayer to avoid conflicts with ALC programs
Minimum age Jr. High or 12 years old
Start Friday 1st week of September run every other Friday (9/7, 9/21, etc.)
Adjourned by consensus 17:15
Sunday, May 6, 2018 4:30PM
Adult Life Training, Inc. Board Meeting
Present: John Nash, Paula Echols, John Nash 3rd
Chair: John Nash
Minutes taken by John
Called to order: 16:30
Short Discussion
Directors have not yet reviewed GC videos, although several youth have seen them and have very favorable opinion. Directors agreed to preview Ramsey Generation Change videos this week. Not currently possible to make an informed decision about how many (or if) to buy.
Participants and parents involved in the Friday evening LAN Party wish to continue meeting past the ALC end of semester. This is possible but we need a participating Advisory Board to help with the activity. Also will coordinate with Pastor Cole of ALC to avoid scheduling conflicts – LAN Party will meet Friday on weeks ALC youth activities do not meet.
Possible candidates for advisory board were mentioned: Tim P., J & T R. They will be approached this week to understand if they are even interested in being part of this group and if so then to what extent they can help.
Next meeting May 20 after church.
Adjourned by consensus 16:53
NOTE: most if not all ALTi board meetings are intended to be 30 minutes or less. Quality is not achieved by dragging things out. Frequent meetings can be short meetings.
Sunday, March 11, 2018 4:30PM
Adult Life Training, Inc. Board Meeting
Present: John Nash, Jolene Nash, Paula Echols, John Nash 3rd
Chair: John Nash
Minutes taken by John 3.
Called to order: 16:34
Opening prayer
Discussed corporate email accounts. John1 will help people later if the need arrives.
Old Business
Thoughts on recruiting new directors: we will defer this to the next meeting.
Board of Directors sets policy on what to do. Advisory Board offers input on tactical, specific actions to carry out those goals.
Need a board of advisors to handle these lower-level items, especially with input from younger people and demographics we need to serve, e g. FPU for younger people.
Identify who taught the youth financial peace class at ALTI last time. Can we tie this in with what’s been done / is ongoing so we do not duplicate services.
Normally, FPU would be split into adult and teen classes at the same time but in separate groups.
Need a good way to market these classes to the community so we have engagement with the broader community. We have had over 100 people signed up for these programs over the years.
Don’t necessarily need to take over any youth program the church happens to already be doing. Don’t need to duplicate the programs of a larger organization with a larger budget.
ACTION ITEM: IDENTIFY WHETHER ANY FPU PROGRAM IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE OVER THE NEXT YEAR?
In the past, giving the $100 kits to end-clients half didn’t even have it the next week. When the kits were given to social workers, they went into use and had an impact.
In general, FPU doesn’t like making copies of class materials.
Some community members will seek out these classes and purchase the material on their own.
Would targetting youth classes be moving too far from our core “market” of older citizens?
From the beginning, we’ve been open to the community and accepting whomever would come, regardless of age and background. We’ve found an effective outreach program for seniors, but that has been only one constituency, not our core mission. We’ve worked with seniors because they fit well with our capabilities.
Ramsey offers this to schools directly, with larger grants.
A problem of working with other organizations is the “agency effect” in which they seek out the need to get all 100% of grant money.
Grant includes funding both for class material and also for paying instructors.
John1 feels strongly that we need to broaden the demographics we’re helping. Our efficacy with the Senior Aides program has diminished in the past 2 cohorts as people have not been showing up or retaining information. With the economy improving, the population of people looking for work has gone down and de-gentrified. There may not be a need to continue providing this program to this population at this time.
We’ve been getting many more aides assigned to the ALTi program because we’ve been teaching and providing effective training which has consistently brought participants into sustained, unsubsidized employment.
Therefore it’s important to provide help to other populations, many of which don’t require the same kinds of help.
Can support our programs with outside funding and potentially with fees for classes and scholarships and grants which pay for students which cannot afford those modest fees.
Need consistent funding with outside funders which could pay for those people who do not have those fees.
Board members have to push this and help get sources of funding and community buy-in.
Could do cold calls and direct letter marketing of our organization but most effective impacts will come through networking.
ACTION ITEM: Need to formalize and quantify this program and place it prominently on our website so that we can most clearly and credibly communicate this to potential funders. Data is available but must be compiled into this.
Should we expand the focus of our programs to encompass more than teenagers, and reach their families and other demographics?
Need to reach the broader families.
Similarly, look at the impact of the Friday night LAN party on bringing in kids and their families.
Need to remember to build a community and sustain contact with each person after their participation in oen specific class for one semester. Building community will greatly help get new programs going and attract sustained funding.
Need to pick a single focus on build on that. Right now it loooks like FPU / Financial Literacy is a good focus for this organization, community and time.
Need some sort of sustained income to support the organization and establish it.
Need to read thorugh and evaluate available supplemental programs like 16 -18 yo Generation Change program.
Need to ask about the results FPU has seen on impacts to kids continued participation and longer term outcome. Use their sell sheets to see what they’re doing.
ACTION ITEM: Can use volunteer kids from the population of people connected with the organization.
Deferring secretary & treasurer for last.
Next meeting set for May 6 after church.
Sunday, March 11, 2018 4:30PM
Adult Life Training, Inc. Board Meeting
Present: John Nash, Jolene Nash, John Nash 3rd
Chair: John Nash
Minutes taken by John 3.
Convened: 16:22
Old Business
None
New Business
Meetings have been much delayed due to multiple personal challenges in various board members. Bro. Lock has requested to be temporarily inactive and Sis. Black has requested to be excused. A special effort was made to gather at this meeting.
This is a very short meeting. Another, longer meeting will be scheduled.
We need 2 new board members who are non-family members for greater diversity, better representation and governance.
John nominated Paula Echols, who is willing to serve. Jolene seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
2) Succeeded at receiving the 3 Rivers Grant in the amount of $9,800.00, the amount requested in the grant. We will discuss the distribution and application of these funds at the next meeting.
John 3 is currently serving as treasurer. The duties of the recording secretary, which includes calling the next meeting, will be taken by John 3 until the next meeting. We will decide on officers at the next meeting.
3) We have had much success with our Financial Literacy small groups. We need to discuss at the next meeting the best way to bring this success to our community, particularly by involving the Trustees Office and Fort Wayne Housing Authority, who have worked with us on this in the past.
4) Due to the rapidly improving economy, we are seeing fewer seniors who need help getting employment skills. Catholic Charities is having significant difficulty finding 6 seniors to assign to us. As such, we need to look at our services and re-assess how we can best serve our community. We will discuss this at the next meeting.
The next meeting date has been set for Sunday April 8, 2018, in the Adult Life Training office, following the close of the church service.
We will also discuss candidates for the board of directors and will consider the idea of reestablishing an advisory board. Participation goals for the board of directors would be once per month and for the advisory board would be once per week.
Motion to adjourn raised by John, seconded by Jolene. the motion has passed unanimously.
Thursday, July 30 2015
Adult Life Training, Inc. Boarding Meeting Minutes
Present: John D Nash, Kathleen Black, Philip Lock
Decision made to meet through E-Mail for the month of August to see if this would be more convenient for the Board.
All board members should work on writing updated job description for their positions.
Treasurer will try to remote access the financial database
Delivra has agreed to do promotions for us Format for e-mails. Frequency: quarterly. First to be released December 2015. Then evaluate from there.
closing prayer
lock motioned to adjourn, black seconded. meeting adjourned.
Thursday, June 25, 2015 6:00PM
Adult Life Training, Inc. Board Meeting
Agenda
1) Schedule next meeting / work session
2) Senior Aides status; Public Computer Classes status
3) Bro. Lock’s remote access to financial database
4) Job Description Receptionist / Instructor
5) Prayer Sessions to ask for funding
6) Delivera.com email fundraising company
7) Adjourn by 7:00PM so Bro. Lock can get to his next meeting (Thursday B-ball outreach)
Present: John Nash, Kathleen Black, Philip Lock, Jolene Nash
Chair:Nash
Schedule meeting: July 30 2015, 6PM
collected updated e-mail
discussed meeting electronically so we don’t have to meet in person as offen
Job description: Nash suggests Lock and Black write job descriptions of their current positions.
Reviewed job descriptions, agreed to tweak descriptions and e-mail changes in group e-mail.
Agreed to each take set times to pray for financing for this organization.
Discussed using Delivra to do promotion for us. Board decided to proceed. John to report.
Motion to adjourn from Jolene. Lock seconds. Ayes have it. Adjourned at 6: 57 PM.
Monday, June 8, 2015 6:30PM
Adult Life Training, Inc. Board Meeting
Present: John Nash, Kathleen Black, Philip Lock, Jolene Nash
Chair: Bro. Nash
Old Business
None
New Business
Meetings have been much delayed due to multiple personal challenges in various board members. A special effort was made to gather at this meeting.
This is a very short meeting as ALC service starts in 1/2 hour. Another, longer meeting will be scheduled.
Minutes are being kept on paper by Sis. Black for later transfer to computer.
Schedule Next Meeting: Thursday June 25, 2015 6:00PM
Moved: Sis. Nash
Second: Sis. Black
Motion Carried
Re-elect existing board and officers for 2015.
Moved: Sis. Nash
Second: Sis. Black
Motion Carried
Bro. Lock: needs remote access to the corporation’s local books — financial database so he can work from home. Bro. Nash will arrange.
Bro. Nash:
- Received Donations from Aetna and Wine & Canvas businesses: $200 cash from Wine & Canvas fundraiser sponsired by Aetna, a significant supply of coffee and related hospitality items and about two cases of printer paper from the employees at Aetna Insurance on Coliseum Blvd., and the promise of a $1,000 donation from Aetna Insurance corporate offices which is still in process at this time. Additional funding is needed to continue operations.
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There is a serious need for income for first paid staff. Sis. Kerri Packer helped briefly in this capacity but cannot donate her time daily without pay. Jennifer Perkins has donate much time in this capacity and also transports the Burmese / Karen youth to the weekly event here, but she cannot afford to help daily without pay. The Nash family has sacrificed for 12 years without pay to launch this work and cannot survive much longer without some kind of financial income.
Lack of paid staff is preventing us from offering more classes and Bro. Nash is burning out from doing most everything alone and his family is suffering from over a decade of no income from his full time work.
Discussion ensued. Bro. Nash is to have a job description for the needed first staff for discussion in the next meeting. This will be a combination Instructor / Receptionist person.
Motion to adjourn
Moved: Sis. Black
Seconded: Bro. Lock
Vote: carried
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Adult Life Training, Inc. Board Meeting
Agenda
Present: John Nash, Kathleen Black, Philip Lock, Jolene Nash
Absent:Attwanna Crawford
Schedule Next Meeting:
Old Business
None
New Business
Motion to Re-elect John Nash as CEO
Moved:Jolene Nash
Seconded:Philip Lock
Vote: carried
Discussion on whether to add Philip Lock as CIO. Discussion tabled until next meeting.
Motion to Reinstate Kathleen Black, Philip Lock, Jolene Nash Active / Release Attwanna Crawford Inactive Board Member
Attwanna has served for several years and has now moved to South Bend. We are thankful for her years of service. Kathleen Black, Philip Lock, Jolene Nash, and John Nash are still able to serve. Motion to re-appoint them to the board of directors for another year.
Moved:Philp Lock
Seconded: Jolene Nash
Vote: carried
Treasurer’s Report
Current bank account status – Checking $39.42, Savings $105, net income Jan-Oct 2013 is $187.01
Changes from last year – Significantly better than last year.
Moved to accept Treasurer’s Report: Jolene Nash
Seconded Philip Lock
Motion carried
President’s Report
Number of and Attendance at Computer Classes
Monday Afternoon – John Nash 3rd (2-3)
Monday Night – John Nash (2-3)
Tuesday Afternoon – John Nash 3rd (2)
Karen (Burmese) Youth Event
Regular Volunteers (4) Mary Grepke, Jennifer Perkins, John Nash 3rd, John Nash
Youth 11-14 on average
Kind of activities used – reviewed the program plans used over the summer 2013 to present
Needs: transportation
Philip Lock: We need a written statement on how Karen programming fits in with goals of ALTI. Board agreed.
Recycling Event Results
Lab Computers upgraded – At least 2 GB RAM and Flat Screens now on all our computers, thanks to parts available from ACE Recycling for a price we could pay — offset against the money we were due for recycled goods. Check received last week for $210, half of which was due to the ALC Revolution Youth group for their help, as agreed.
Motion to allow future board meetings to be conducted electronically, on-line posts in group area on FaceBook or Google Plus, with one annual meeting face to face in case IRC requirements will not recognize an on-line meeting.
Moved: Kathleen Black
Seconded: Jolene Nash
Vote: carried
Motion to adjourn
Moved:Kathleen Black
Seconded: Philp Lock
Vote: carried or failed
2012-07-25
Must reschedule due to lack of quorum
Agenda for next meeting, date 07/25/12, 6 pm
Present: John Nash, Attwanna Crawford ????
Kathleen cannot be here tonight due to family emergency
Philip unable to make it
Jolene unable to make it due to work
2012-06-06
Present: John Nash, Kathleen Black, Philip Lock
Set next meeting date: Kathleen Black
Next meeting will be held:July 25, 2012 6 pm
Old Business
– board mail boxes and e-mail addys, email account info and training — John Nash (demo & account sheets)
– Question: Should we change our email service to GMail corporate?
Philip Lock motion to switch e-mail to Google g-mail
Kathleen Black seconds
Motion carries
New Business
-Needed items — Tech Soup: Windows 7, Office 2010, (for coverage and the 2-year ‘software assurance’ support package)
Other Discussion? Need to define our goals with each program we’re involved in, as well as our over all mission.
Motion to Adjourn:
Moved by:Philip Lock
Seconded:Kathleen Black
2012-04-25
Adult Life Training Board of Directors
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012 6:00-7:00pm(rescheduled from Sunday 4/22)
Meeting outline
Call to order — John Nash
Present: John Nash, Kathleen Black, Philip Lock, Cammy Fox
Schedule Next meeting — Kathleen Black
Date 06/06/12, 6 pm
Old Business
-board mail boxes and e-mail addys
–account info and training — John Nash (demo & account sheets)
-lab painting needed, still needs finished
-Are Taxes Done Yet? — Philip Lock Need to set VPN, so Philip can work from home, should be mailed this week
New Business
–Planning: John & Jolene wish to travel May 22-29 to visit son Jordan for his birthday at Tinker AFB near Oklahoma City, OK — will need replacements to run programs that week, need to have driver
–Request from ALC / Jim Yoder, c/w Pastor Keller: please add IMPACT Community Work Experience Program
-Needed items — Tech Soup: Windows 7, Office 2010, (for coverage and the 2-year ‘software assurance’ support package), Dell Phones for Board Members
-Financials — John Nash
-current programs
–alc tega (new)
–Senior Aides: Leadercast Friday, May 4
–atr: Operation Immersion May 9-11
–karen youth — need 2 more volunteers for transportation
–senior aides: training is complete, they are working on light cleaning at ALC under Bro. Kurtz now
–walk-in public classes: Monday evening class working on Spreadsheets
-this year program is “Back to Work 2012” Needs:
— GRANTS TO PAY WAGES TO WORKERS
–five and ten year plan
–funding for first paid staff
–funding for office supplies
–grantstation access paid for but unused lapsed — wasted $99 again due to staff shortage
Any other new or old business
Move / vote to adjourn
Moved by:Philip
Second:Kathleen
Carried
2012-02-22
Adult Life Training Board of Directors/Advisory Board meeting
Wednesday Feb 22, 2012 6:00-7:00pm
Meeting outline
Call to order — John Nash
Present: John Nash Kathleen Black Attwanna Crawford
Jolene Nash
Schedule Next meeting — Kathleen Black
April 22, 2012 After Church Service app 5 pm
Old Business
New Business
President’s Annual Report — Nash
-Entity Report — John submitted it before we were “Adminstratively Dissolved” by Indiana
-LID calendars
-HRBlock Tax S/W on RM 136 PC for use?
-board mail boxes and e-mail addys
–account info and training
-lab changes / upgrades last year
–painting needed
–copier paper (1 bag) needed, Attwanna to donate, also need envelopes
-current programs
–atr — continue
–karen youth — continue, need 2 more volunteers for transportation
–senior aides — administrative action last week — continue
–walk-in & public classes — Monday evening class finished beginners and formatting text modules
–Are there ideas for new programs that we should add? Ideas who should lead each?
Because we are restricted to 60 minutes in this meeting, we need a real work session together, possibly electronically, to decide how to address each of these things.
-board of directors
–monthly meetings focus on achievement of purpose
–has oversight – sets policy
–fund raises
–appoints ceo who hires remaining labor
-this year program is “Back to Work 2012” Needs:
–five and ten year plan
–funding for first paid staff
–funding for office supplies
–grantstation access paid for but unused — wasted $99 again due to staff shortage
Any other new or old business
Move / vote to adjourn
Moved by:Black
Second:Jennifer
Carried
2012-01-25
Meeting called to order by John Nash at 6:57PM
Persons Present:
John Nash, Jolene Nash, Kathleen Black, Philip Lock
Old Business
none
New Business
*annual report on website
*average year, ended up breaking even, but need funding
*access to recovery brought in most funds in 2011, will be doing that again this year
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*next meeting set for feb 22nd 6pm-7pm
Motion to Adjourn
Moved: Kathleen
Second: Jolene
Motion Carried
Adjourned at 7:20pm
2011-12-21
Meeting called to order by John Nash at 6:30PM
Persons Present:
John Nash, Jolene Nash, Kathleen Black, Philip Lock, Attawanna Crawford
Read Minutes
Motion to accept: Jolene
Moved:Second: Attwanna
Motion Carried
Financial Report: Philip Lock, Treasurer
Report is tentative, pending completion of year end closing
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Move to accept Jolene, Kathleen 2nds, motion carries
Old Business
HR expert Andrew Delaney reviewed our participant handbook standard procedures and a few changes were made. Revised handbook is posted for AS IS use by other charities on our resources page. Our thanks to Bro. Delaney for taking time to help us with this important resource.
New Business
Reelect officers, had discussion, philip moves to retain, jolene 2nds
motion carries:
Officers for 2012 are:
John Nash, President and CEO
Kathleen Black, Secretary
Philip Lock, Treasurer
Attwanna Crawford, Jolene Nash, Board members
Robert Crawford is unable to continue to serve on the board, and is bowing out until further notice.
John discussed the purpose of the board (governing and finanicial oversight) and the need for the board to actively look for opportunities for persons and organizations in the area to help this important work through funding and other donations.
Discussed scheduling next meetings, January 25 chosen.
Philip Lock asked about remote access to accounting program and John will help him connect when he brings in his computer.
Motion to Adjourn
Moved: Kathleen
Second: Jolene
Motion Carried
Adjourned at 7:00pm