Okay, so we are, again, Nathan, our chair will not be with us this morning, and we have a couple of things to discuss that are coming down the pike fairly quickly at the beginning of this quarter. I'll quickly give an update.
On what's happening for the corporate social purpose network, and then we can move over to some more priority items that are coming up for conference related items stay on the hill, which is a bit sooner. Corporate social purpose network. So we actually had our 1st core meeting yesterday for the 2026 year. As a reminder, the core is the leadership body for the network, and the major items that are being discussed right now are the upcoming events, which is the 1st purpose.
Change of the year, which is gonna happen in February, 26 February the focus of the conversation at Wade and our honorage here at Dollar general Deanine Tour, one of our other core members, Rebecca, I'm forgetting her last name at the predators, but they right now are working together on a project with National public schools, which is really cool. And from that Bert the idea of having the topic conversation be how businesses corporation.
In civic anchor constitutions, but really targeting business corporations can successfully come together with business, with state and local governments to partner and what that looks like. So we're building that conversation right now. If you all have any recommendations would welcome that for folks to potentially join a panel or to.
Discussion. And then of course the corporate social purpose track, which I don't know if Candice or conference director will be able to join us this morning, but we will be, we do have that on the agenda, so we can talk about that a little bit later, but that will be happening as well 9 March. We're still very much in the recruitment phase, of course we're still in the not pilot, but in our.
In our real year, we have gone six months now. I think fairly successfully have 35 members, 35 companies represented within the network, but still very heavy in the middle Tennessee area. So our recruitment officer is building up a plan we're working with Tasha Price, who's amazing on that. And I'll give two more many points. Wade Monday is going to move over to being our chair, so he is the vice chair right now. He's the director of social impact of atlantrophy at Bridgetown and.
He's moving over to being the chair in June. And so we're looking for a couple other positions vice chair, I have a couple of folks who are staying in their offices, and the last thing I will say going back to that regional representation, always looking for recommendations, you know, connects, particularly for those in west east Tennessee, so if you know of any businesses folks who are in that realm of work corporate social responsibility, so that could be like corporate communication.
And community engagement, community impact, philanthropy, volunteer, obviously employee volunteer programs, that would be very helpful if you pass that info over. All right, that is all I have for corporate social purpose right now. A lot of good is happening. Any questions or thoughts before we move over to our next agenda item?
The team, so what did you, you said Wade, what is his last name?
Monday spellt with the U instead of an O Monday. Thank you. Of course. It is awesome and we're really excited for him to be over to this position. Nikki Catron at Slavama has been great. She'll stay on the core team, but she's passing the baton. Very, very good. Thank you.
What what is the what what is the obligation for those who participate in the network?
Yeah obligation we don't like to use such strong language, but.
I know. What what are the, what are you looking for? Like, what kind of participant.
Oh, in the core, so the network member versus the core, so the core leadership body that would be like, you know, you're attending meetings there bi monthly so and then we also skip.
July for like a summer break, so they're only five meetings a year. There we do hope that the communications officer just shared this with the core yesterday that folks will be intentional about sharing posts and reaching out to like their community in some form once a month.
I would say on the volunteer tennessee end, if they're actively you know reposting something like once a quarter, reaching out, attending an event, like one event each quarter or even, you know, two events in the year. We have a document that states this and I'm trying to like remember remind myself of right now but not successfully. And then also they have the opportunity though it's not a requirement, but it's a hope.
And so not even an expectation. It's a hope that they would participate in some form of in kind donation or sponsorship to volunteer Tennessee or to a network event. But if they could just share their time and their energy and and be an advocate in the simplest.
Form cause these folks are, you know, very busy as we all are, and many times they're running regional teams, but yeah, that's, that would also be great.
Thank you.
Of course. All right. Thanks for those questions. I have not successfully gotten to where I needed to be as yet. I believe the next topic of discussion is on the state plan, the annual plan. This team has not as yet been able to actually.
Talks through the annual plan. I think right now it would obviously just be like brainstorming and let me roll back. So this committee, Jim, is it going to be separated last time Nathan and I spoke, we were thinking that it would be soon.
I, I believe so and I I think Carrie can confirm that, but I think we are going to do our best to try and split the committees so that we have a separate communications and separately a strategic partnerships committee.
I had asked Rebecca Henderson to chair the strategic partnerships and Nathan is gonna help her with that transition and so it will happen.
Okay.
So I wonder how this discussion goes when thinking about that.
Do we. Yeah, and I'm sorry I'm trying to I'm looking through the notes from the around the retreat and I don't I know Jason, you I think you were in the strategic partnerships group, but I don't I don't see any notes from that committee.
So, so it was kind of a interesting circumstance. What we ended up doing, when we decided to work on that was we split.
The two between stree strategic partnerships and communications and so we worked independently on the two topics. Yeah. It was I think it was just me and Nester that worked on communications, which was a bit because we had never really looked specifically at that before so my apologies for whatever state that is. In terms of the strategic partnerships piece, I'm not, I'm not sure.
Yeah, that's ok. Yeah. That's ok cause I I well, I also don't have any notes from the communications.
Groups so.
Okay.
Okay, I, well, I I mean it's possible.
I'm just looking at, you know, these big.
Sorry, it's got yeah well this big. Yeah. No, I, I remember Nathan, taking, I think maybe he was gonna look at the notes cause we were gonna turn it in so.
Yeah, maybe he was gonna try and tidy them up a little bit yeah I'll follow up with him on that and see if he's got those. Yeah.
Oh boy.
That's ok. I mean, we'll we'll figure it out. I mean, I'm sure that somebody has the notes. I just don't have them. Yeah.
I'm also remembering I recorded the, I don't know how well that would have turned out, but I did record for the communicate for Nathan's group because we had two people online as well. And so I think that would have gone to you Jim cause I was trying to find, I totally forgot about this. I was trying.
Trying to find it so I don't know that that maybe helpful and if I can get that transcript, then I can try to create notes from that. So again, that maybe a little difficult considering the hybrid nature of that conversation. Amy, welcome. Happy New Year and Happy New Year I didn't say that to anyone.
Thank you. Happy to see everybody.
Well, Lettifa, if you if you'll remind me later after this call, if you'll connect with me and we'll try and figure out if we've got that recording. I don't remember right offhand seeing it in the, you know, cause teams send you a notification when the recordings are, have been processed. But that doesn't mean it wasn't. I I will just have to look.
Sounds good. Sounds good. So then for this conversation, is this communications annual planning or break it up? Do we wanna do both communications and strategic partnerships, maybe like tackle?
I, I think for the purposes of this meeting, I I think I think it's still kind of a combined group. So I I think probably just talking about generalities and things that kind of cross both groups, and so maybe the focus should be like maybe the day on the hill.
Because that's something that is, I I think it applies to both committees and then in future meetings when the two groups actually completely split, we can find out, we can figure out how to kinda collect and or or recreate if needed, the plans that, that the individual groups develop at the retreat.
Sounds like a plan. Sounds like a plan. I am pulling up the template to start us off. So Jim gave an excellent recommendation, which is on our agenda today, so thinking through items for the annual plan for day on the hill, which is in a little bit less than a month away on 6 February is what my brain is telling me right now. I hope I remember 4th.
Yeah, it's on 4 February, so a little less than a month away. I guess we could start with communications, the communications piece, and I'm looking at the old annual plan.
Which is frozen on me. I mean exit that, sorry team but maybe we could think through what goals would be reasonable within this less than a month period of time.
Is there a way. Have you sent an invite out for that? Because I don't.
I don't see it on my calendar.
The, the calendar, I haven't sent out the calendar appointment yet because.
We now I.
I, I sent out the list of meetings a week or so ago. I haven't sent out the actual calendar appointment yet because I need to create the Webex webinar, I think for this. I mean, technically it is public meeting, but.
But anyway, I haven't figured out yet how to, how to create the webinar, the Webex webinar or just the part that's gonna be at the very end of the day, because in previous years we would have the day on the hill and then come back together and convene and have like a mini commission meeting, but we're not doing that so anyway, it's it's a little bit complicated. I I haven't figured out yet how to how.
To do it. Jim sent that email on 5 January, so you can look for 5 January.
Yeah, and, and that's just that's just the list of dates it's not the actual actual calendar appointment. I'm gonna try and do the calendar appointments.
Today or tomorrow if I can figure out that Webex thing because, I I need to create the Webex webinars before I send the calendar. Well, I guess I could do just a save the hold the date thing and then later go back and put in the the Webex information. Maybe I'll do.
Yeah.
But it does include the registration information and volunteering.
Yeah, that's that's in there for the the for the conference in the GBSA and volunteering for those. And then also there's a a survey to respond for people who are going to participate in the day on the hill, so that I can get account on that and also have people tell me what their lunch prep preference is. Amy if you don't have that I can re forward, I can resend that to you.
Yeah, it's probably a few hundred emails ago. I can.
Sorry we had holiday lives on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll If you don't mind.
I'm sorry. No, NO NO.
That's NO problem at all. I'll do that right now.
Okay.
Is it, is it possible to bring up the old document? We have like a point of reference.
Absolutely, and you have paul's attention to my deep flow right now because that is what I am trying to do right now, Jason and unsuccess.
But.
Yes, I know that would be very important to this conversation. I was trying to get into our folder which I know it is in there, but I'm going to because it also I would be able to share the link with you all, which everyone has access to that folder, but I'm just gonna go and put it on our screen.
And Jim, could you actually remind me, is it in the committee folder Cause I was trying to access it via the general SharePoint folder.
I'm not I'm not sure what document you're trying to.
This would be I think the old communications annual plan.
Oh, the old one, let's see, I can probably pull that up really quickly. It's, it's in the planning folder under the previous, let's see.
I'm I'm.
I'm pulling up the combined one because it has both the.
Yeah. Communications and the strategic partnerships committee information in it. So, screen.
Thanks Jam.
Is that, is that working?
And we see that.
Okay, so, let's see, let me go to the communications committee part, and then we can, we can go down to the strategic partnerships.
Sorry, I'm looking for stuff that's specific to the day on the hill. Oh, here's something.
So this last one.
It's super tiny on my end. I mean it's a little hard to read. I don't know.
I don't know if did that help?
The if I.
That, that looks pretty good, yeah.
Yeah, I can't, I can't I can't get the full sheet on, but.
Well, I can kind of scroll back and forth left and right. But the the previous thing for the communications committee for the day on the hill, looks like it was related to year round communication.
Aligned DOH leave behind materials with goals, and then the the outcome, sorry let me make this a little bit bigger, relationships with elected officials. So it looks like it's more the goal or the activities were more related to.
Kind of materials and ongoing communications outside of the day on the hill. But then there was the support the day on the hill with 70 per 70 % commissioner attendance, which we did, we did not have 70 % participate last year, which is why there's a, it was a 27 %.
I was gonna say Jim, does 70 % seem really high, like in general for for this particular activity?
It is, it is higher than actual participation. Now in terms of where, where I think participation should be and where other folks have expressed where they think participation should be, it should be much higher than 27 %. Yeah.
So so 70 % is like a reasonable goal to grow towards.
I, I think so. I mean it's it it might make sense to drop it down a little bit because it is such so low right now and kind of build the, build their participation over the next couple years of this current three year state plan and and this, this.
Is the communications committee routine?
Planned not their state plan. So, but I mean the the two kind of align in some ways so anyway, about 70 % might be too high to go from 27 % to 70 % in one year, so maybe maybe it needs to get dialed back a bit.
Let's see. Let me let me go down to the.
Let's make sure there's not other stuff on the comm.
Locations committee. Yeah, ok, let me go down to the strategic partnerships committee section and see if if there was any specific day on the Hill stuff for that committee. I can't remember right offhand.
Not really, I don't remember that being, but there were a couple at the bottom for communications.
Yeah.
Yeah, sorry. I'll.
Back in just a second.
At the bottom of.
The communications, there are a couple there.
E O H.
So the notify media public says.
Oh yeah the the activities yeah those those kind of fit in with the, the supporting the day on the hill, the elevator speech training, which we did, which we did a training last year if folks remember and I.
I think we recorded that.
So we've we've got that available.
Let me mute. Okay.
Yeah, so we've got that, we've got that recorded we can go back and take a look and make sure it still says what we needed to say. And then, the other one was notify media and publicized Downhill on social media.
Sure.
So, I I feel like I recall social media posts that came across my feed after the day on the hill with folks that visited with different legislators that kind of highlighted that. I think we actually, I think there may have even been a series of like, they met with.
With this person, they met with this as opposed to like an aggregate post, but but it stands out to me that I think that happened.
Yeah yeah there yeah and we we certainly encouraged commission members to take photos during their visits and then post those photos either that right after that meeting or that same day and a lot of people did.
So that, that I think worked really well. I I don't know cause I don't really remember the intent of this because it says publicized down the hill on social media I don't know if that meant before the day on the hill.
Or during/after the day on the hill. I think you're right though, I think we did have quite a few people who posted things from their visits last year. I don't know how much traction that got, but it it was out there.
For Day on the hill, if we were to do something that highlighted it before it happened, what would be.
What would be the desired outcome? I mean, sometimes I see when other organizations visit and do their day on the hill and sometimes they'll do it like, I mean it's not that dissimilar to what we do, but they'll be like, you know, the mcnab center is at, you know, in Nashville visiting with so and so and then later they might post some other photos, but.
I don't know if I I've ever seen like in a week we're gonna visit and do our day on the hill. It usually feels like a, in the moment or like a reflection kind of. Yeah.
Yeah oh yeah and and I'm not I'm not saying that we should do pre stuff on social media. I just, the way this is worded, it's not clear to me what, what the intent was of the committee, and I don't remember the discussions around it, so I I mean.
That's fair.
Yeah, I I don't think If someone has a good idea for how we could do social media prior to the downhill, I think we should absolutely do that, but I don't have any, anything in mind about how we would do that. Yeah.
And, I know what I've seen that it's not usually to get people to participate because we're not looking for unless we are about looking for community partners to join us on Dan the hill. It's more of like a, hey, we're doing this soon and this is what we did last year, and this is why we're doing it.
Kinda. Yeah, that's that's a good framing for it. Yeah, that's good.
Okay, so to and I wanna remind the team of something Nathan and this group talked about making sure that when developing the annual plan, it's things that as much as possible are relevant and realistic for this group to accomplish.
So for the upcoming day on the hill since that's where we are, what would make sense, do we want to carry this over this entire thing and then probably clarify that, I don't know about notify media that I would need clarification on as well but I guess publicize post day on the hill success potentially, but yeah, what what is what is the hope here that we can carry over to the annual plan?
Okay.
I, I don't know what was done with like notifying the media, but it seems like socials are something that our our group is able to effectively do. So I I think maintaining that.
I don't know about notifying the media and doing press releases. I mean, thing about it also is like, you know, during day on the Hill season, everybody's doing day on the Hill season, so it's kind of like yes, you know, volunteer Tennessee went and visited with legislators, but so did.
You know, the Tennessee nonprofit network and all these other folks. I don't know if that's gonna get you much traction in terms of like television or newspapers or things like that, but socials seems to be effective, I would carry I mean, I would be comfortable carrying that over especially with the.
The capacity we have and the fact that this committee is kind of in like a soon to be splitting kind of format. Yeah, just because there's gonna be some transition in it.
Jim, can you remind me of the column titles? I know there's the activity, but what happens prior to that? Okay.
Yeah, I agree about the social media piece, especially for this group to be able to like successfully support on interventions outputs. Sorry, I was.
I was on mute and answering your.
Question about what came before. So there's inputs and then activities and under activities, there's what, who, when, and date completed, and then there's outputs and outcomes. I mean, I I think for the for the purposes of notes for this call, I think.
If you can just kind of focus on capturing the activities, which is kind of like the stuff that's here from last year but updating it for, to capture what, what the group's talking about right now. And I think just for clarity, I think instead of saying publicized day on the hill on social media I would say maybe.
Promote or promote a.
Or or post post day on the hill visits on social media or something like that to make it clear that we're, we're talking about not something that's happening beforehand, but that's something that's happening to capture, you know, the live visits, so to speak, even if it's posted later on that day.
So what would be a reasonable number for the group to agree upon? Is it based on committee member or just like total the committee will post this number because again hoping to based off of conversation, remove as much as staff as possible because we have our plans, of course, and then make this as commission specific committee members specific as possible.
I mean, I, I feel like a minimum of three posts, I don't know. That's just a number I grabbed, but I feel like I I saw at least three different variations of, you know, a day on the hill content last year. So that seems like it's a real viable, like among the groups that are there, at least three of those groups are gonna take some pictures and post them on socials and they can get shared around.
Okay. And this committee would be weird, so this would be like, oh, members from this committee are going to post on their social camels, three posts.
Well, so, I, I appreciate the effort of removing staff from the equation, but in terms of like being present, well, I guess members could post and then volunteer tendencees socials could share it, but there might be some value in the volunteer tennessee social instead of having.
And like all these kind of disparate like, oh, I went to Nashville and I met with the legislator for this volunteer Tennessee thing. Volunteer Tennessee could have like a collective, maybe it could be like the aggregation of that content where like our commissioners did the visits and, so like, you know, between the, say, three commission posts, it would, that would generate the imagery and the content necessary for volunteer Tennessee to do like an aggregate post or something like that.
Yeah, and we'll definitely have, we have our plan and what we'll be posting. I think that the what you all talked about last time is like the goal of like what the commission will be able to like actually realistically do, which I feel like when I say post, when we say post, it could actually be, oh, you plan on reposting what volunteer Tennessee is already posted or posting your own.
Phone but whatever it is, this certain amount that.
This committee will be responsible for.
If if reposting counts, I I'd say a higher number than three probably because I mean, I feel like three people generating content is like, that seems like a safe bet. I feel like at least several more would be sharing it, right? Is there, is there a number attributed to that already?
I don't think it had it didn't have any kind of output.
Yeah NO.
I mean, well, the, the out, the output was related to the attendance.
And I just that as a note kind of related to all of this, I think it would be helpful if one or two members of this committee would be willing to review the recording from last year.
To see if they think we need to redo it or if we just need to post it and have people who are gonna be participating, just watch it again or or if we need to completely revise it, including it's been a year, so I don't really remember.
If there are instructions in that video for, for taking pictures and posting, I think there is there. I think we talked about that during that recorded session, but I don't remember a hundred percent. But if it's not in there, then we should we should certainly revise that training.
To include a little bit about taking a photo and then posting it and tagging specifically volunteer Tennessee so that so that we can build on it and and not just have to rely on the official volunteer Tennessee account to post things for that, for the down the hill.
We talked about it briefly, but it was more of a send all of the photos to staff and then we did it. So it wasn't necessarily like a lane of what the actual commissioner is re like posting or reposting. It was just send it off.
That's yeah well yeah so yeah so we might wanna reconsider that. I so anyway, I I think it still would be valuable to have one or two of this group to review that recording but one just to make sure that it makes sense, like if.
Yeah, if it doesn't make sense to you all, then it's probably not gonna make sense to, to other commission members. And if we do need to revise the bit about the social media, we can just redo it. But that, that would have to happen pretty quickly.
Because the day on the hill is on the 4th and I think last year what we did is we, we did that virtual training a week beforehand and we recorded it and then made that recording available for folks who weren't available during the live session.
So if we need to, if we need to re record it and do another live session, it would probably need to happen on the 20 you know on or slightly before the 28th of this month.
Is, is it on base camp?
I, I I don't remember where it is honestly. I think it's probably on our YouTube account. Well staff will have to do some research to figure out where it is. I think we posted it on YouTube so that, again, so that folks who weren't able to be at the live training could go and view it before the day on the hill.
Yeah.
I was gonna say if y'all have a link and want to send it to me, I can take a look at it.
I'm happy to do that too.
Awesome. Yep. Okay, cool. And also be cognizant of time, so it's 1041. Do we want to continue with the annual plan or And I mean we are talking about something else that's on the agenda which is day on the hell. Do we want us to continue in this arena or move over to the other items are the conference, which of course can help with the annual plan building. So maybe we could just like kind of build all of that into the annual plan conversation, but up to you all.
Well, what, what I would.
Sorry Jason, what what I would suggest is that we stay on day on the Hill just for a little bit longer to talk about the actual materials that we handed out and whether or not folks want to, take another run at those. I mean we we kind of revised the way we did it last year.
And I'd have to go back and look at the the evaluations from, from the commission members who participated, but you know, do, do we want to take another crack at revising the lead behind materials?
But we're happy with what we used last year. So what what I will say is that, I think the materials last year were good materials and I think all the materials that have ever been done have been meaningful and have helped facilitate the conversations and are educational.
I think, I think this year is last year. I mean, there has been a lot of change lately, so it might be worth considering. I don't know like how deep of a dive we can do on the content considering the time frame building up to it, but like there might be certain priorities that are worth highlighting.
That are unique to this moment in history versus others that maybe less relevant to the legislators that we would talk to. It's just just a thought.
Well, I I do think that paring it down into more bullets rather than paragraphs and stuff was really helpful cause we, you know, it's really hard to weed through. I mean, we can do the leave behind with more detail or as a reference, but that helped having it a little more concise.
Last year.
Yeah, you know.
Just a thought, you know, I I think things that are maybe like on people's minds, you know, anything kind of updating people on like Helene response, public safety and security seems to be a emphasis.
At the moment, which might be of interest to some legislators, I don't know what programs are gonna be the best highlight around it, but there maybe some like themes or like adjacent themes that kind of speak towards you know community work that emphasizes creating safe environments for people.
But I can do, cause I'm also thinking of course, we need to talk about this today, but maybe you all saw Jim was able to put out the position for the community engagement outreach officer, which is really awesome manager. And of course, so I say that to say that's exciting, but also we are down a person still who would typically have that role. I agree, and I think that staff would agree that this is a time for looking at the materials, so it would, so I'm saying multiple things there, so I don't know what our capacity actually looks.
But I can put together a survey.
And put it out with this next, with the meeting follow up email to get feedback on what should be included. If that makes sense, maybe that's a little bit much maybe we can have the conversation here and figure out if it's possible.
Yeah, I mean, it might even be just like, you know, I'm all about consensus, but for the purpose of like mitigates for the purposes of balancing having that content versus like creating a, a process that has to be managed and kind of.
Expands the amount of time that's spent on it. Maybe, I mean maybe there's just like, not to be like Lutifa, you know, you know what who to highlight, so you just tell us who to highlight and we'll just be like, that sounds like a great idea. Cause you I mean, not, I also don't want to put it all.
On you, but just just like something that creates a more concise process where maybe all the materials don't need to be updated, but maybe we can just identify like, hey, maybe it would be interesting to talk about like an update on the Helene response because that seems to be something that people broadly agree that is like, oh, that was a really bad thing.
We want to highlight and be a part of like the recovery efforts related to that and if there was some kind of, programming again, and I it's such a tough thing to frame because I feel like the theme of public safety is, can be contentious, but I think if there there's ways that like programs are addressing public safety.
That can be really kind of consensus building in terms of like, well, you know, what we see on the news is evoking like really strong polarizing feelings, but maybe there's an example of like an Americap program, or volunteers that are doing some like really meaningful public safety work, maybe even attached to Helene or like the recovery building safe neighborhoods, that kind of thing.
We'll certainly mentioning the cert program and all those training.
Things, definitely. It's a good one. It's always a good yeah what.
So one Candace just put something in the chat about the and so I'm sorry, somehow or another Webex is still new to us and some, somehow or another I have managed to disappear the actual video so I can't see any of you or or or anything that's going on in the webinar but I I think Terry had her hand up and I, I wanted to make sure that I.
Yeah, Terry wanted to say something about.
All of this that.
I did. I agreed. I was gonna say something but it was already said.
No, ok, ok. I'm sorry. No, that's, that's completely ok because I one of the things I was trying to do is figure out how to raise my hand, but I couldn't I lost all I can't see anything now. So one thing I would say let's not send out a survey, instead what I would recommend as follow up to this meeting if everybody's ok with it because obviously we've got folks who aren't on the call, who we would like to engage, that we.
We send out, we'll we'll find the, the recording because we have it somewhere. We just need to locate it. We'll send a link to the recording and then also the leave behind that we used last year.
And I'd just ask folks from this committee to give us input on, if they want us to change anything, add, like include different highlights I mean, we've already talked about a couple with this group, like the cert stuff I think is a great idea.
And and I think if we just do that and just have the committee members give us some input and feedback on last year's, we can maybe make the changes quickly because as we've already discussed, I mean, we're gonna have to do any changes that we need to do to the actual leave behind materials. We'll have to have folks who aren't necessarily, you know, communications people do that. Yeah.
I did send because I don't know where the chat is, but I, I responded to your 5 January email to everybody with what I I wasn't there, but I, it was a 9 January YouTube video of a commission meeting and I assume that might be it. So.
I sent the link, so. 9 January, the maybe the the day on the hill last year was in March, if I remember correctly, and I don't remember when we did the training we'll we'll we'll figure it out though. We'll, we'll I'm I'm almost sure that we recorded that because we did have people who weren't available for the live training and we provided them with a link so that they could view it later.
Okay, I just did a YouTube search January volunteered tennessee Commission meeting January and that's what came up. So if you did March, what whenever it was, That's like.
Yeah, well, we'll we'll find it and if it's not on YouTube, we'll, we'll put it on YouTube and, make that link available as follow up to this, this meeting.
Indeed checking time again, it says 1051I have on here review materials for down the Hill 2026I also have added here review materials for down the Hill of 2027, but for the sake of the.
Very fast approaching Dan the Hill. All committee members will be responsible for reviewing these materials is what was just decided? Maybe not all committee members, but are there folks on this call who are saying they will be responsible for reviewing these materials? Obviously volunteer Tennessee will be reviewing them as well.
Yeah, I'll look at them. Yeah.
Yeah, I thought I maybe I misunderstood Jim, but I thought he said that if we send it to the committee, then, then let hopefully more than just two of us will look at him and give us some, you know, good feedback.
I think of the plan.
I was just trying to put names on there or put committee members.
I think we had two people commit to reviewing last year's.
Yes.
But then I think we we ask the entire committee, including those that aren't on the call to review the materials and give us feedback, and we'll, we'll have to, we'll have to put a fairly quick turnaround on that feedback because we are getting close to the date. So we'll probably have to ask people to review and give us feedback within a week of.
When we get the follow up email out. Yeah. But I think that is the Well, we will ask all of the committee members to take a look.
Okay, then my hope is to get that out today along with the survey, and then everyone would have until the 16th to review. Okay. Any other items for day on the Hill 2026? Again I have 2027 review materials for day on the Hill, but anything else for 2026? Post reposts five to ten day on the Hill visits on social media for three to five committee members.
So last year it seemed like we had a good number of, you know, of Americaps program folks who attended with us. How, how is that being organized this year or are we doing that?
Yeah team sent out a survey maybe two days ago, I think. I'm looking, and if you sent out a survey to assess if anyone would be able to join us from the program in and I'm pulling up right now to see, if we have anyone who's responded I know Jason on the call this morning, our our committee member, commission member has already shared that maybe someone from his team will be able to join but I'll pull that up right now.
I think it's such an interesting time to do day on the hill cause sometimes I feel like volunteerism and service feels like kind of a background thing, but I think there's a unique opportunity to show how volunteerism and service kind of fills gaps that people might be noticing. So so that like regardless of like where you're coming from, you can.
Can look at that and be like, ok, America or volunteers are stepping up to do, you know, rebuilding after, you know, disasters or if there's some kind of like sudden urgent need for food, you know, this is the ways that like different organizations are stepping up to support that.
Those are good I.
I think those are good stories to tell, you know, to kind of personal or whoops, I keep cutting myself in and out to make it, you know, you wanna connect a story rather than just facts, you know, so they can connect with it.
Like nobody wants to be told like, oh, because of current policies, food and security has gone up and this is how bad it is instead, it would be better to be like, you know, to address the, you know, food and security needs in our community, this is how, you know, America is like coming together and organizing these unique feeding operations or how volunteers are.
You know, really showing up at their church to come together and make sure people are taken care of, yeah.
Always hear what the stories are and the impact is what matters. We have five programs that I was trying to talk and read at the same time, we have five programs who've expressed interest three who have committed Yes, but five who've expressed interests.
Which is really good. Yeah, so I and will again share what we have for the annual plan, which is the post repost five to ten day on hill visits for social media. This is three to five committee members that I've put on here for the annual plan.
Correct me if that doesn't feel right, and then review recording to assess if it needs to be revised. Jason and Terry have wonderfully offered to do that and that would be I'm gonna say probably by the 16th as well and then review materials for down the Hill 2026, that's all.
Committee members the 16th, and then review materials review on the Hill 2020 7th I guess that's the date that can be decided at a later time. Are there any other items that we wanna talk about in this 4 min period for day on the Hill that's coming up?
Just real quickly, I just posted in the chat. I found that the YouTube unfortunately someone had unpublished it and listed it as archived. So it it is, you should be able to access it with that link. And we'll, we'll send the link out as follow up as well so folks can, can take a look at that.
I feel like I'm wearing the same clothes on that video or at least this jacket. I haven't looked at it, but maybe, maybe I am. I clicked it and I went to it and I'm definitely wearing this.
You have you have a slightly different hairdue, so.
Oh, we totally get it. That's how the hair fell that day. It's basically the same.
I don't think you can say that guys have a hairdo though.
I think.
I'm sorry it didn't mean to offend you. You look amazing. Thanks.
Okay hairdies and whatnot. All of these things will go out to you all by today. Candice, do you want to give a quick, have any requests of the committee regarding the conference? We have a couple of minutes.
Not right now. I'm not prepared especially not with two, 2 min. I talk longer than that. But yeah, not right now.
So anyone else have anything to share?
I, I know Candidate said she wasn't prepared, and I'm not gonna put you on the spot, but I'm just.
Since I just don't have a a formal presentation.
Yeah, that's fine. Sponsorships, how are we at with that? And would it be helpful to be like drumming up more of that?
That is a great question and a great segue Jason. I'm always going to say yes. Always, always, always. Right now we have a couple that are just kind of lingering that we're here from last year. A lot of them are just like now that it's 2026, now it's the time to reapply for it.
So if you have any sponsorships, I'll just yes. Yes yes and yes. Yeah, send sponsors, we could always use more more more money. But if you do like please just let me know because I am extremely busy and I would love to collaborate on the submission of the sponsorship instead of yeah yeah just to make sure. Yeah, thanks Jason.
I will reattach that in this follow up email. I know we sent that. Oh, thank you before, of course, I will attach the sponsorship package for the team.
All right. Anything else for Candace, any other questions? I know we do not have a lot of time, so I'm sure Candace wouldn't mind if we save those questions. And we do need of course monthly, at least at this point. I'm sorry just before we're out.
Out of time. Just for the record, we did not receive any request for public comment.
Yeah.
Okay, and enjoy your Friday y'all and please look out for that email coming to you sometime today.
Thanks everybody.
Happy New Year.
Happy new year indeed.
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