CUPA-HR MEETING MINUTES

September 4, 2001

Present: Karen Emptage, John Mueller, Matt Garland, Mary Fisher, Larry Hamilton, Jill Ukeilly, Stephanie Flatt, Debra Olson, Robin Freestone, Judy Sambrano, Michele Meador, and Marlies Steele.

This was the first meeting of fiscal year 2001-2002. The meeting was called to order by Karen Emptage, President.

WELCOME

Karen welcomed everyone to the meeting and is looking forward to a great year of membership and participation. As chapter president this year, she welcomes any ideas regarding program development and topics of interest, or anything else the members feel important. One goal she would like to concentrate on this year is professional development for our members and for the chapter. Stay tuned for more on this later on in the minutes.

The 2002 CUPA-HR National Conference will be held next year in Toronto, Canada from September 29th through October 2nd. Karen thinks it would be great to send as many interested members to Canada for this conference as possible. This is a great opportunity for professional development of our members. In light of this, Karen invited a guest speaker to our first meeting of this year to speak on fundraising.

Guest speaker, Russ Kost, UNLV Director, Major and Planned Giving, Foundation, gave a 15-minute presentation on fundraising basics. Karen arranged for this presentation in an effort to allow our chapter to brainstorm ways to increase our budget and increase professional development opportunities for our members.

Here is a summary of Russ’ presentation:

There are three reasons why people give

    1. To save a life or change a life
    2. Someone has directly asked for a donation
    3. There is a belief in the nature of the organization requesting the donation

The effectiveness of a fundraiser is measured by the amount of monetary donations collected.

As an entity interested in conducting fundraising, look for organizations that you have built relationships and partnerships with.

 

 

 

 

 

The five I’s of fundraising are listed below:

Identification – identifying partnerships

Intervention – how to raise money

Interest – convince donors why it’s important to give

Involvement – make donors part of the solution (put them on program committee)

Investment – who are you going to prospect? What is their capability?

Russ will give Karen samples of sponsorship proposals.

 

TREASURER’S REPORT

The balance in the account is currently $727. 03. Marlies originally reported that the balance was $708.58 after all expenditures were deducted. The amount from the one outstanding bill was reduced from $313.50 to $295.05, thus increasing the balance.

All dues, with the exception of DRI, were received for fiscal year 2000-2001. Invoices for dues will be sent in the next few weeks for fiscal year 2001-2002. It was decided at the meeting to re-invoice DRI for last year’s dues.

There was a discussion to increase the dues from $50 per year to $75 per year. The last increase in dues occurred in 1992. Attending members from UNLV, BCN, System Administration and UNR voted to increase dues from $50 per year to $75 per year. Matt made the motion and was seconded by Stephanie.

MINI-GRANTS

Karen did some research on mini-grants offered by CUPA-HR. Up to a $400 mini-grant is available and application must be made by June 1, 2002. The mini-grant could be used by a chapter to send an additional member to a conference. Look for more information on this in the future.

Robin asked whether there were only five mini-grants given out due to the number of applications received or due to the limitation of national funds. Karen will research the answer to this.

ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP REPORT

President Elect Jill Ukeilly attended the Association Leadership Program in Tempe, Arizona. She reports that this was her first CUPA-HR experience and she learned a lot as well as meeting representatives from other chapters around the country.

She is working on her first assignment – updating our chapter’s roster of members.

 

 

ON-LINE CALENDAR PLANNING

Karen let members know that she is updating the on-line planning chapter calendar. Please view our chapter’s webpages through http://hr.unlv.edu and click on the NV Chapter link at the bottom of the page.

PROGRAMMING IDEAS

Program Coordinator Stephanie Flatt led a discussion on programming ideas for the upcoming year. It was decided that a one-day conference with a dynamic guest speaker was a great idea for a fund raising effort. The audience would include UCCSN employees and also other public entity and private company employees who may be interested in attending. This conference would probably be held sometime in February.

A sub-committee was established to meet and discuss ideas. These ideas will be brought to our next meeting in October. Sub-committee members include Stephanie, Marlies, Matt, and Karen.

MEETING ADJOURNMENT

The next meeting will be held in mid October. Stephanie will notify us of the date, time and place.

There being no further business, Judy motioned to adjourn the meeting. Robin seconded.