Friends in Action Advisory Board

We met as Friends in Action Clubhouse instead of the BJC office starting this month. When Project Clubhouse and the Advisory board combined we needed more space, so what better place than our clubhouse. That also makes it much easier for “Cooking with Friends” to cater the meeting. Last night we had a lovely Caeser Chicken salad and banana strawberry punch bowl dessert.
The Advisory board is made up of BJC staff, clubhouse members and representatives from the community. It is facilitated by Helen Micken and staff assisted by Karen Miller. The board oversees fundraiser for the clubhouse and projects like Friendship House apartments.
The art show is a sub-committee. It raised $4000 this last year. The wall calendars are up for sale, see a board member or clubhouse to get yours early. Trivia night is our other big fundraiser it’s coming up in November. Details and workers were set up tonight. Anna gave an update on clubhouse, the new mission statement and introduced Mike Gehrke from clubhouse to speak about the work he has done on our web design and spread sheet. He has become quite an asset to us and his work is greatly appreciated.
Cindy from Clubhouse sat in on the meeting and was voted in to head the Art Show Committee, assisted by Maggie and Betty. Cindy also takes a group from Clubhouse Outreach to the Friendship House apartments community room. They take snacks and invite residents to visit and get to know each other. It helps our members to give back to the community.
We discussed trivia night and making a basket from the board for the raffle. We decided to do a basket for guys including tools, car stuff, fishing supplies, or sports supplies.
We got to see the new clubhouse logo and graphic design for our new sign.
The board discussed people from different businesses in the surrounding communities that might like the support Friends in Action Clubhouse or other projects from BJC.
Our next meeting will be January 26th, although sub-committee will be meeting before then.
Thank for reading our blog.
Maggie P, Clubhouse/Board Member