Minutes of the Board of Directors, The Special Hope Foundation

After receiving proper notice via e-mail, a quorum of the Directors named either by the Incorporator or listed in the Articles of Incorporation, constituting the Board of Directors of this Corporation, held their meeting at this time, on the day, and at the place set forth as follows:

TIME: 4:26 pm
DATE: September 23, 2014
PLACE:

The Office of the Special Hope Foundation

2225 E Bayshore Road

Palo Alto, California

AGENDA

Call to Order

The following Directors, constituting a quorum of the full Board, were present at the meeting:

  • Lynne O’Hara, President
  • John O’Hara, Vice-President
  • Laura Shumaker, Secretary, Communications
  • Phil Shemanski, Treasurer
  • Lucy Crain, MD
  • Stacey Milbern
  • Laura Shumaker
  • (Alice Wong)

Minutes Approved and Reelection of Officer

The first order of business involved the review of the minutes from the previous Board Meeting from May 20 , 2014. All reviewed and accepted the minutes.

Election of Director: Alice Wong – we unanimously voted to elect Alice Wong to the board!

New Director of Programs

We welcomed new Director of programs, Michelle Manzo. She is replacing Shannon, who has gracefully agreed to stay on to ensure a smooth transition.

Strategic Update

Champion the growth of local support networks to empower self-advocates

Our grantees are collaborating with one another and we could not be happier.

Encourage specialists to raise awareness and spur action among their peers

Make research accessible

Create sustained learning opportunities for donors

  • Co-funding with Autism Speaks(?)
  • Alice Wong

Convene cross-sector audiences for increased communications and collaborations

  • DREDF National Health Agenda conference
  • Formation of Conference Committee

Report from the Communication Committee

  • Update on Social Media Campaign
  • Funder Education Materials
  • Stacey suggested we move our resource page so that it is more prominent on our website. Laura is going to write a blog post about the resource guide.

Report on Self-Advocacy Advisory Board

  • Orientation update
  • Alice Wong suggested that we do profiles of our self-advocate board for our blog.

Report from the Finance Committee

 

Grant Review

AUCD-Voted not to fund. They need to provide more specifics about the “blueprint” they envision.

ASAN-Voted to fully fund

Autism Health Insurance Project-Voted not to fund. We’ll invite them to come back with something that will expand the scope of work. We agreed that their projects is an important undertaking. We’d like to see a plan for sustainability, infrastructure and staff/capacity.

Kaiser Permanente-Voted to table our vote until we hear from Autism Speaks about their participation in funding this project. We agreed to fund the project regardless.

Lurie Institute for Disability Policy-Voted not to fund.

Office of Developmental Primary Care-Voted to fully fund

The Arc of San Francisco-Voted to fully fund

New Business

  • Exponent Philanthropy 2014 National Conference (formerly ASF)
    • October 2014, Washington DC
  • 2014-2015 Meetings
    • January 30-31, 2015
    • May 19, 2015

 

 

Adjournment

There being no further business to come before the meeting, upon motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, the meeting was adjourned at 7:04pm PST.

 

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Lynne O’Hara, President

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Laura Shumaker , Secretary