Major Projects Underway:
- GSA/Roll of Honor open for nominations and online.
- Looking for GSA committee to help with selecting winners for this coming year.
- Recruitment for community organizations interested in service learning training, funded by the MOTT Foundation. We have 5 organizations signed up.
- Finished training on Service Enterprise train the trainer. Scheduling out dates for a spring cohort – gave the orientation this month and training will begin end of January.
- VGF report turned in.
- CMV course has some issues with links and downloading. We may need to skip a session to give Kelsey time to fix issues.
- Maine Service Fellows advisory committee met, Kelsey’s first step is to compile requirements of host sites.
Upcoming Project Focus:
- Certification in Volunteer Administration has a testing window in April. Kelsey will be leading a study group to start in February.
- Need to get training for CERT programs, and recruiting youth organizations for CERT, Kelsey will be creating an RFP to contract with someone to help with this effort.
- Volunteer Generation Fund’s ARP funding has not been announced yet – however we are beginning to strategize how we would apply these funds and which organizations to partner with.
Ongoing:
- E&E Task Force
- Maine Volunteer Mangers Network: Michael gave a presentation on risk management and background checking. Next session will have Hawley Carlson of Volunteer West Virginia going over a rural volunteerism curriculum that was developed with Tobi Johnson of Volunteer Pro.