2009 Annual Meeting

It was a pleasure to see all of our board members at our annual meeting on June 10th. We welcomed many new faces to the table and celebrated the contributions of departing board members. This meeting was also the launch of our strategic planning process. Our wonderful consultant, Jim Lefevre took us through a "visioning" exercise for the whole board and staff. We wrote "achievements" on one side of an index card and "impact" on the other. Then we all shared our hopes and dreams for the impact and achievements of the Campaign as if we were waking up on the morning of January 1, 2015. I spread all the cards out on my desk after the meeting to take it all in. The common threads among the cards are quite remarkable, my favorite being Vermont becomes a leader and model for ending hunger.

Many thanks to the wonderful people at Allscripts who let us use their conference space! The whole board won't convene again until October, but we have board orientation to look forward to this summer!