Minutes

ACBL Educational Foundation

Board of Trustees

Houston, TX

March 9, 2002

 

President Dudley Brown called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 9, 2002.

 

Present:                     Dudley Brown, President, Barbara Nist, Vice-President; Eugene Kales,  Secretary/Treasurer; Geoffrey Cross, Bruce Reeve, Chris Shaw, Jonathan Steinberg and Barbara Vann.

 

Absent:                       Peg Cundiff

 

Also Present:            Joan Gerard, Barbara Nudelman, Jack Zdancewicz, ACBL CFO, Charlottee Blaiss, Kelley McGuire.   Nadine Wood, Charity Sack, Beth Maloney-Refaie and David Idleman of Bridge at School program.

                                                                                   

 

Results of Fall Election

 

At the Fall 2001 Membership meeting in Las Vegas, Barbara Nist and Barbara Vann were re-elected. We welcome Christopher Shaw to the Board of Trustees of the Educational Foundation. We thank Arlette Schutte for her service on the Board.

 

 

Approval of Minutes

 

The minutes of the November 26, 2001 Las Vegas, NV meeting are approved as amended.  Carried unanimously.

 

Approval of Minutes (Las Vegas):

 

Moved that the Youth Underground Committee be placed on the agenda for the Las Vegas meeting. Carried unanimously

 

Under New Business (Las Vegas):

 

B. Aileen Osofsky Guidelines for YUC: Aileen asked the Educational Foundation for guidelines her approving the expenditures for the Youth Underground Committee. It was discussed at length and Geoffrey Cross volunteered to speak with the Committee and set up a budget for the $80,000 granted by the Foundation and report back to the Foundation at its Houston meeting. The budget will be used by Aileen Osofsky to monitor expenditures.

 

C. Bruce Reeve motion on Juniors:  moved that the Foundation help fund the out of pocket expense for the Junior department of the Junior funds collected. The Foundation shall pay the expenses of a team Captain/Chaperone for the Juniors to accompany the team to Salt Lake City. This is for the attraction arranged by the WBF to promote the entrance of bridge as a sport in the Turin Olympics in 2006.

 

Moved that the Foundation would fund up to $2,000 for the Junior Teams trip to Salt Lake City.

 

Motion failed due to lack of second.

 

Bridge At School

 

Beth Refaie, Executive Director of Bridge at School (BaS) gave a brief update on the past 60 days of the program.  She reported that they have received additional funding from other sources. She thanked the Foundation for assistance on allowing the BaS to use financial information for their grant application. She informed that they have applied for their 501(c)(3) but have not heard from the IRS at this time application is pending.  Additional funding is being sought from districts, units and grants.

 

It was moved and seconded that Geoffrey Cross will work with the BaS to provide financial advice and direction on future funding of the Project. Recommendations on future funding will be brought to the Foundation at its Summer NABC meeting in Washington, DC.

 

Carried.

 

Treasurer’s Report

 

Eugene Kales, Secretary/Treasurer of the Educational Foundation presented the treasurer’s report. (Exhibit A)                                         

 

Grants

 

a.            Communication Across Restrictive Disabilities is awarded $5,100 for the Hearing Impaired classes.

 

Carried unanimously.

 

a.                  The Pizza Party for Caddies and Youth Bridge Students at the Washington, DC NABC is awarded $150.

 

Carried unanimously.

a.                  Scholarship awards for School Bridge Lesson Series Instant Matchpoint Game is awarded $2,000.

 

Carried unanimously.

                                                           

Old Business

 

a.             Corporate Congress funds: It was moved and seconded that the funds would continue to be retained in a Corporate Congress fund category.

 

Carried unanimously.

 

b.             Guidelines for the Youth Underground Committee: Cross noted that he worked with Nadine Wood to have a budget in place up to May 31, 2002. 

 

c.         Library program:  Moved and seconded that subject to review at our Summer NABC meeting in Washington the library book program shall dispense books at a price of cost plus $5.00.

 

Carried unanimously.

 

 New Business

 

Discussion was held on setting fundamentals for grant proposals. Three principles  would be: 

 

1.         What the Foundation would and would not fund

 

2.             Person requesting grants would need to submit a letter specifying credentials and also provide three references

 

3.         It will be an irrevocable condition of any Foundation grant that the Foundation receive a report on the success of the project and an accounting of monies spent.

 

Moved and seconded that the above three principles be adopted for any proposal submitted over the amount of $3,000.

 

Carried unanimously.

 

Moved and seconded that a committee of Eugene Kales, Geoffrey Cross and Bruce Reeve will draft guidelines for grant applications and bring to the Summer NABC meeting in Washington.

 

Carried unanimously.

 

Contributions for Goodwill Committee: Moved and seconded that the Educational Foundation discussed this matter and choose to take no action.                                                                       

Carried unanimously.

 

Election of Officers

 

Moved and seconded that Dudley Brown, is nominated for President.

 

Moved and seconded that Barbara Nist, is nominated for Vice-President.

 

Moved and seconded that Eugene Kales, is nominated for Secretary.

 

Moved and seconded that Geoffrey Cross,  is nominated for Treasurer.

 

There being no opposing candidates, all officers nominated are elected for one year terms.

 

The meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m.