Found out about a WalMart grant that might be available to us
Turns out the DAVs are quasi-independent and some of them are decidedly not gay friendly
Vice Chair
Communication
Website/Social Media
Facebook for The center getting good hits, between 70 and 100 per with outliers
There will be some book reviews starting to come from Sally for updates and relation to the library
Will also be receiving info from Sally (as well as just posting about it) that Oct is National Bullying Month
Request for two donations to the library
“One Family” – Shannon
“Stella Brings the Family” – Schiffer
Chung editorial from Eagle on prosperity of Wichita connected to interdependence and respect
No major changes to website
Will be mounting referral list to website tomorrow
Phone system situation
Waiting on the right phone and plan
Motion to make the cost of a phone for Shirley (Nolin’s secretary) to have an independent phone for Center related business. M: Angel, s: Sally – Pass
Newsletter
Community Calendar
So far mostly up to date
Brochure
Secretary
N/A
Treasurer
Bank Change to Sunflower State
Balance Report
New Account will be created for Wichita Health Coalition because some of the groups involved can receive their event deposits from PrideFest others cannot because it was an allocation
This will become a development fund for groups that have difficulty affording events and the like for presentation
Current Committees
LGBT Health Coalition
PrideFest Numbers were up significantly from last year
KU Med is having a women’s health event on the 10 Oct
ArtAID 10 Oct
NCOD 11 Oct
Youth Health Faire by The Center at the pop-up park of Douglas on 24 Oct
Discussion of LGBT Homeless Housing with Rob Simon
Bridges Program run by Wichita Children’s Home is LGB friendly, not T (this may or may not be related to ignorance of the topic therefore may perhaps benefit from WiTCoN and ICTLGBTHC contact through The Center)
1 Dec at Garvey Center is World AIDS Day chili-feed fundraiser
Library Committee
New books
“Trevor” the book that corresponds to the movie
Fundraising & Endowment Committee
N/A
Get Connected
WiTCoN
Bowling numbers were good
Support Group was just open forum last month
Of those 10 were new so there is good word-of-mouth
22 Oct is the next Social meeting (it was rescheduled)
Will be getting business cards
Volunteers
Old Business
New Business
PayPal
Has been updated for new banking
After PrideFest two individuals came in stating that they had been paying their memberships online to Paypal
Turns out they had saved the link from a pay pal account that has not been active for several years
Nolin has contacted Paypal, that account is now completely shut down
PrideFest
Wichita Pride Elections Upcoming
As arises
NCOD Price Woodard Park (between Century II and River), get the info out
Peak visit weeks were in the last two weeks of June
“Get Connected”, “Helpful Numbers”, and “Sponsorship” are the highest
Worth noting are the event listings for WiTCoN and First Geek on the Calendar getting several hits between them
YTD total 2015: 5000 hits
Website Updates
Calendar Updated to end of year
Will be placing more news stories on website as well as HHS notes for a sort of virtual Newsletter
Social Networking Stats
Get Connected
The Center
National News significantly higher hit ratio than local info
Scans of sign-in and contact form documents completed
Script for most common phone messages complete based on last year of calls
We have been receiving several VMs over the last few months for GED and ESL coursework assistance
I found why and have contacted “The Best GED Classes (dot) com” at (888) 814-1675 as well as submitting to their ‘contact form’ to notify them to remove us from their listings in the “Wichita KS” section
This will likely require more than one contact from us
Website link is: http://bestgedclasses.com/wichita-ks/
Brochure
Secretary
Treasurer
Balance Report
Center Operating Balance
Current Committees
LGBT Health Coalition
Doing very well
Looking into elderly health and long term care
PrideFest
Will also have a booth in the Buffalo Room
Library Committee
There may be a delay in continued processing of books due to personal issues for volunteer for the next few weeks
Two new books donated
“Homophobia” which includes ideas for workshops that could potentially be hosted by The Center
“Uncommon Heroes” which is a photo/biography book on role models for youth
Fundraising & Endowment Committee
WiTCoN
Most recent meetings have had over 30 attending
the large meeting room is actually becoming fairly large
Bowling night coming up
Volunteers
Old Business
Invitation to PFLAG meeting at CHUM was answered by Nolin, he attended
Wichita Eagle’s article on Trans group WiTCoN gave us FB traffic as well as visibility
Website/Social Media
Extremely high traffic on Facebook
The article and momentum generated by the trans group relationship to The Center initiated a discussion of sponsored group oversight
Motion: Any group operating under The Center is required to submit their sign-up lists to The Center Board. M: Tom, s: Nolin; Pass
Motion: Each sponsored group must have a liaison from The Center for administration. M: Sally, s: Tom; Pass
Motion: At least one officer on The Center’s Board of Directors must have administrative access to any social media pages related to sponsored groups and organizations. M: Tom, s: Nolin; Pass
Newsletter
Community Calendar
Nolin has requested direct links be added to The Center’s website so that we can avoid the issue of posts about drink specials and such
However, listings of fundraising for the various Wichita organizations are fair game and will be included on our Community Calendar
Tom has requested two logins, one for the Equality KS Central Chapter as well as Equality Statewide
Brochure
Secretary
N/A
Treasurer
Balance Report
Current Committees
LGBT Health Coalition
Four new people/service reps added to the Coalition
Highly productive meeting
Health Fair will be 24 Oct ‘15
The Center itself will get two booths on the main floor at PrideFest, one for The Center specifically and one for The Health Coalition
Coalition will submit to The Center, The Center will pay Pride
WASAC has been added to the Coalition list and may be at Pride as well
Library Committee
Card Catalog pending
Fundraising & Endowment Committee
Drag Fundraiser 6 Jul 15
Fairly successful
~$450 brought in
BLgT fundraiser sitrep is currently unknown
Haven’t heard from them at all
Get Connected
See Fundraising for Drag Show
Upcoming Events
16 Jul 15
Botanica
13:00
$3 cost / kid
1 Aug 15
Art Museum,
14:00
Free Day so no additional cost to The Center
Several new kids at Youth Group
Some question of Young Adult group getting started
Possibly Sundays
Will need to be revisited
WiTCoN
Seem to be doing well with their overall attendance and recent programming
Had an article in The Wichita Eagle’s online article list last week
Movie Night
2 Jul 15
Volunteers
Old Business
Meeting with WPD
23 Jul 15
18:30
All orgs have been invited, most have confirmed
New Business
Women’s Social Group contact
Woman who left VM on system
Met with Nolin
Already developed a plan
She was recently coming out but older so was looking for social outreach
Does not want to have to do it herself
She will instead be working with the people Nolin connected her with
Planning meeting on 22 Jul 15
As arises
An oddly worded invitation from Bryan Sutton to speak at his PFLAG group at College Hill United Methodist will be done by Nolin at the next PFLAG meeting
Emails coming in from adults now since our presence is now getting up there
More requests for our referral list as well as being added to the list
Answering voicemails as they come in and sending them to those necessary, not extremely high traffic but still coming in
Website/Social Media
Newsletter
N/A
Community Calendar
On Hold
Brochure
On Hold
Secretary
N/A
Treasurer
Balance Report
Center Operating Balance
Had to re-re-file the 501(c)(3) for both orgs as the state still had incorrect information for the rep names -$220
Pandora performance broke even
Current Committees
LGBT Health Coalition
Didn’t meet this month due to Kim K being sick
Dropped the Smoking Cessation Funds
Health Fair will be coming up in June which will be the primary preparations from this point forward
Library Committee
Sally has been doing a great deal of work in sorting the books as well as setting up a paper catalog and sort until we’re able to finalize the computerized system that Tom wished to implement
There has also been some communication from educators known to the board members who are worried about legal requirements to purge reading material from schools of now legally defined “harmful” which could be funneled to us
Fundraising & Endowment Committee
Get Connected
GSA get together / Movie Nite will be on the 24th, Derby and East High have been contacted particularly
Have returned several phone calls and have forwarded the information accordingly
Forward Treasurer and Secretary the email address and reminders for The Gayly
Mailing List
Secretary
Nothing to Report
Treasury
Balance report
Fundraiser
16 Mar 15
Update to poster artwork was re-emailed to be printed and distributed however possible
There has been several organizations expressing interest in renting space from The Center for either one-time events or ongoing meetings
Current committees
LGBT Health Coalition
Nolin attends the meetings
Prepping for a “Health Fair” 13 Jun 15
Included in this will be outreach to outlying medical providers
Sedgwick Co
The Health Department’s funding has been cut substantially
Library
Nolin reported on law changed with the state that is still up in the air
It will make how the Library is divided according to laws now passed in KS relating to “harmful” material will mean restricted access area is even more important
Ivy will be working on the sorting
The bulk of which will be worked during upcoming Spring Break (week of 13 Mar)
Fundraising & Endowment
Fundraisers
Vice Chair has contacted restaurant managers about the ‘Dine To Donate’ fundraisers
Get Connected
Elle Boatman with Faces of Trans will be speaking
Will be looking for horror movies for Friday the 13th that aren’t rated “R”
Stacy Mann has agreed to be speaker on 3 Apr
Have looked into moves for Apr only briefly
Old Business
Friendly Business Listing
New Business
EQKS
Will be taking over The Center on the 19 & 20 Jun, 19 in particular will be completely closed to the public
Youth Issues
Haven’t heard from the girl some of the group was having difficulty with
As Arises
Sally volunteering
Ash is seemingly attempting to get a trans group running at MCC