IMIYA BOARD MEETING
Sunday September 20, 2020
ATTENDING
President: Josh Warren
Marketing: Dana Hanizeski
Vice-President: Brad Denning
Secretary: Sage Harrington
Treasurer: Darren Christensen
Membership Chair: Mandy Coates
ABSENT
Regional Rep: Paige Noon
MINUTES
- Budget
- Darren presentation budget 2-16-2019
- pre-covid, our yearly income mostly comes from member dues around $6300/ year
- Expenses each year (t shirts and scholarships) come out to around $6750 annually
- Scholarship funding has fluctuated from 2016-2019
- come 2022, what do we want our normal expenses and normal income to be? Make decisions on what to spend in the remainder of 2020 and 2021
- Currently around $22,000 in bank account at this time
- Mandy: membership has held relatively steady from 2019-2020
- Decisions to make
- make t shirts every other year rather than annually
- Darren made a motion to allow Scholarship Committee to allocate funds to any of the 5 Scholarship/Grant Categories from within the larger umbrella Scholarship fund. Dana seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.
- Scholarships and grants awarded: Dana made a motion to disburse funds to the following applicants (Deanna, YCD, Deb B., Avery K.). Sage seconded the motion. All voted in favor.
- Class Pack: Deanna ($100)
- Community Outreach Grants
- YCD – yoga in Spanish, Korean programs ($1250)
- Deb B. – Yoga for Cancer class ($625)
- Avery K. – Queer/Trans Yoga and Reparations yoga programs ($1250)
- Sage will get in touch with grant/scholarship recipients about receiving their funds and share their stories on the website
- Darren made a motion to allow the scholarship committee to send out class Pack funds up to the limit of what we’ve allocated ($1000 in $100 increments) Josh seconded the motion. All voted in favor.
- New Grant: Building Bridges Grant to build bridges between Iyengar Yoga and wider Yoga Alliance community: funds go to exclusively BIPOC teachers (proposal: $1200 set to grant fund with 4, $300 grants)
- Darren presentation budget 2-16-2019
- Antiracism Education
- Check out the website! It is looking great! imiya.org
- Let’s commit as a Board to attend IYNAUS’s DEIJ trainings: Next one October 24, 2020
- Paige says of IYNAUS: We are making progress on the organizational assessment for DEIJ…we have a tentative goal to get something out by the end of October. We have a team of people designing questions as well as a professional who has a set of questions and a structure that she has used.
- direct funds locally through scholarships/grants rather than to trainer? (which would be approximately $5000 investment annually)
- Paige and Sage are working together to get a resource list of BIPOC Iyengar Teachers on the website
- Expiring Board Member Roles
- Regional Rep: Paige’s term is over Nov 1!
- President: Josh: complete term through this year
- Vice President: Brad is in his third year and will complete his term soon as well
- Secretary: Sage’s two year term will end at the end of this year
- Treasurer: Darren is happy to stick around for another year or so to do financials and reports
- Dana will reach out to Paige about expiring board member roles
- Sage will connect with folks individually through membership email list about filling Board Member roles
For future meetings:
- Mission Statement
- Dana’s proposal
- Monthly antiracism study groups: begin with board members and invite general membership later on
- Create Social Media Plan
Next Meeting:
Sunday, November 1