(Community Matters) yummy dinner club last night and great catching up with Sandi Aitken (our hostess), Marianne Rochelle, Joene Grissom, Mark Salamanson and Gary Greenblum. We missed Cookie Ruiz and Christopher Kennedy.
Excellent board retreat for PeopleFund yesterday. Jack McDonald has taken over as board chair, following Cloteal Davis Haynes. Jack & Margo Weisz (ED), planned and executed an on-point, concise and specific retreat which generated the right strategic conversations among fellow trustees and senior staff. Carol Kallendorf & Jack Spears reported on our strategic & environmental assessment and staff 360 reviews. Trustee Debbie Ramirez reporting on our new building on the MLK Featherlight tract which should break ground in a few months (has everyone seen the new rail transit stop on the site – quite cool). PeopleTrust board chair Mike Cook joined us and we’ve elected their board members to our board and vice versa. PT is a support organization of PF; nevertheless, we’ve decided to mirror the boards. Kelly Wiess and staff have done a terrific job managing the affordable housing for Robert Mueller. Many opportunities in this space given real estate values.
Lots of good stuff underway.