Left to Right: Bonnie Mitchinson, Mary Hollister, Esther Joscelyn, Kimberly Thorndike, Kerry Reed, Pat Cameron, and Katherine Pennington.
Your CSNCN Board gave the following brief report at the Conference:
We would like to thank Betty Miller and Pam Roberts, again, for all their work for CSNCN. Soon after their retirement, we decided to expand our Board to seven people. Bonnie Mitchinson joined the Board in August of 2008, Kimberly Thorndike and Kerry Reed in March of this year, and Pat Cameron in April.
During our January 2009 Board meeting in San Diego, we decided to postpone the Conference. Our decision was based on the state of the economy and lack of a venue that was fiscally responsible. In March, after numerous phone inquiries and e-mails regarding possible conference locations, and after much prayer and a phone meeting with Warren Huff, we revisited the idea and started planning this Conference. We are very grateful to CedarS for hosting us. It is a wonderful and inspiring place!
Our usual Board work continues with conference call meetings via Skype, an annual in-person meeting in January, and the publication of Vision Now! Please keep us up to date with your email addresses. We don't want to see you bounce!
We continue to watch our expenses with the utmost care and are trying to be good stewards of the funds that come to us from our sponsors and grantors. Katherine, our Treasurer, was happy to share that our books were audited for the past year and were found to be in "excellent order". She is in the process of handing over the Treasurer duties to Kimberly so she can help in other ways to keep CSNCN running smoothly.
Esther, having enough to do with keeping our data files updated and maintained, and minutes written, passed the "fundraiser" hat to Kerry this year. It is a learning experience and a continuous exercise. We are especially grateful to announce that over $19,000.00 in benevolence was given to Conference attendees this year. This would not have been possible without the generosity of Principle Foundation, Isabel Foundation, Tenacre Foundation and the Albert Baker Fund. We would like to thank individual donors as well. Like the "widow's mite", no gift of gratitude is too small.
And finally, we would like to point out that this year heralded the first online issue of Vision Now! We hope you are enjoying its new format.
The CSNCN Board
