President: Kandy LeMoine, CVA
Past President:  Yolanda Prince
President Elect:  Open
Secretary:  Lisa Miller
Treasurer/Finance Committee Chair:  Tibby Larson
Members at Large:  Jody Cook, Kari Middleton, Christine Stansfield

Committees Chairs:
Membership Chair:  Mollie Tobias
Awards Chair: Leigh Kottwitz, CVA
Education Chair:  Jeri Bush
Marketing and Technology Chair: Roxanne Flores-Achmad
E-Newsletter Chair:  Mary Lynn Perry
Social Media Chair: Kim Yonda
Board Nomination Committee Chair:  Corina Sadler, CVA
NACo Liaison: Open

Committee Members:
Education Committee:  Deirdre Araujo
Marketing and Technology Committee:  Kathy Halstead, CVA

Open Positions:

President Elect
This position serves 1 year as elect and 1 year as president. Candidate must be paid member, demonstrate interest in the goals and objectives of the association and make a commitment to participate in all board meetings, serve on a committee and participate in activities whenever possible. Job description can be found here: https://www.navplg.org/docs/President%20Elect%20job%20description.pdf

 

NACo Representative
Position serves 1 year to provide linkage between NACo and NAVPLG, holding memberships to both. Representative would liaise with NAVPLG president and NACo (staff) affiliate support in regards to ongoing activities, future plans and strategic opportunities. Also includes attending and/or supporting NACo conferences, trainings and other activities on behalf of NAVPLG when/where feasible and strategic.

If a member is interested in serving on the board please contact Corina Sadler, CVA:

CorinaS@plano.gov

At Points of Light’s 2018 annual conference, Service Unites, NAVPLG hosted almost 200 volunteer management professionals from across the country for our annual meeting and to hear speakers Charlotte Norville and Lindsey Rehder discuss the difficult questions: Should I measure one-time volunteers or only ongoing? Active volunteers or contributing? The number of volunteer hours or the number of volunteers?   Join Charlotte and Lindsey for their webinar on best practices in volunteer benchmarking, where they'll be reviewing the results of the questions above as well as covering the following: Which metrics to use as benchmarks against other organizations Which volunteer engagement questions to ask How to keep track of volunteer program metrics   Making Metrics Matter: Best Practices in Volunteer Program Benchmarking Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. (MST) Hosted by Lindsey Rehder of Offero and Charlotte Norville of the City of Fort Collins   This is one webinar you won’t want to miss! Register now to reserve your spot. Feel free to send any questions that you’d like answered during the webinar to Lindsey at lindsey@offero.com.

Congratulations to our 2018 award winners:  Roxanne Flores-Achmad, City of Killeen, Texas; Mary Lou Randolph and Brittany Ingraham from Kettering, Ohio and Jorg Hruschka with the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.


One of the highlights of our session during Service Unites in Atlanta was the presentation of our awards. Better yet, all three recipients were in attendance to receive their awards. The NAVPLG Awards Program is one way that we can highlight excellence in our profession.
Outstanding New Volunteer Administrator Award - Roxanne Flores-Achmad, City of Killeen, Texas:  Roxanne was nominated by Bonita Henderson with Keep Killeen Beautiful and has worked in volunteer management for two years. Roxanne also serves on the NAVPLG board of directors. Here’s part of what Bonita shared about Roxanne:  She is always willing to give 110% at each event. She never asks her volunteers to complete a task that she is not willing to do herself. Ms. Flores-Achmad works with all ages of volunteers. She however excels when she works with the volunteer who may not have a voice. Ms. Flores-Achmad noticed there were no City Wide Adaptive Events in her community and decided to create and offer them in the community. She began in April 2016 offering an Adaptive Easter Egg Hunt that was run with volunteers and no budget. Ms. Flores-Achmad led a group of volunteers who never solicited sponsorships to ask for donations. Volunteers who did not feel comfortable speaking in front of an audience she gave them the tools and encouragement they needed to step outside of their comfort zone and speak. The Adaptive Easter Egg Hunt was a success. Next she created Special Needs Dances for the youth. Two Special Needs Dances are held annually and with the popularity of the Adaptive Easter Egg Hunt she can offer Special Needs Dances to the community free of charge. During the past couple of years, she has exhibited commitment, loyalty, honesty and dedication as a Director and a volunteer.

Innovative Program Award – City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida:  Spanning a full city block, the former Fort Lauderdale One Stop Shop office complex was seriously water damaged during hurricane Wilma. It continued to deteriorate, becoming a blight and public nuisance to the surrounding neighborhoods. Vagrants took over the site as a homeless camp, while vandals continuously broke into the property and defaced it with trash and graffiti. City Officials and community leaders came together to address the problem. One idea floated at City Hall was to have local artists creatively reimagine the property and create a place making, community building service project. The City’s Chief Service Officer approached ArtServe, an award-winning service non-profit, to evaluate the feasibility of artist intervention.

Two key goals were to ensure the project was all inclusive and community driven. Now the once-dilapidated site has quickly turned into a place of pride, a destination for the culturally curious and a perfect complement to the new energy and development happening in the area. New opportunities for future collaborations opened up.

The collaborative spirit came “alive” with the Open Canvas Project. Art was used to re-imagine a blighted building and showcase the vital role art and culture play in building community. Art as a universal language also transcends cultural and ethnic boundaries and can unite diverse neighborhoods.

Award of Merit – City of Kettering, Ohio: The City of Kettering was recognized for their Kettering Leadership Academy (KLA).  The mission of KLA is to create an active network of informed and concerned citizen volunteers that will influence the direction of our city while serving on our boards and commissions at the city of Kettering and area non-profit organizations. A maximum of 14 people are accepted each year to participate in this 9-month program consisting of an overnight retreat and seven all day sessions (one per month). Class members are required to identify a need in our city and design and implement a project to address the need. Many of these projects have been sustained for several years. Most notably, is the Kettering Backpack Program which supplies children on the free/reduced lunch program with shelf stable food for the weekend.

In May, the fifteenth KLA class graduated; now over 200 people will have graduated from this program. Nearly 75% of our graduates are currently volunteering on boards/commissions and at area non-profits. These graduates are serving in these capacities equipped with a solid knowledge of our city, enhanced leadership skills, and a strong desire to improve the quality of life in our community. The reputation of this program is so favorable that area non-profits and city boards/commissions seek out KLA graduates to fill open positions.

Congratulations to our 2018 awards winners!  Nominations for 2019 will be open early next year.