November 2024 Meeting Minutes

BOARD
Status of potential new members (Scholarship, Communications, and Treasurer)

SCHOLARSHIP (Mandy Coates)  
The current scholarship opportunity ends on Dec 31, 2024. 
The board should start thinking about scholarships for the 2026 convention.

MEMBERSHIP (Alyssa Sikora)
Please send any upcoming events and workshops to Alyssa for the newsletter. She sends it out the first of the month.
IYNAUS is holding several Geetaji celebration events and continuing to showcase Level 3 teachers through Saturday classes. We can add this to the newsletter as a reminder for members.

TREASURER (Cecilia Huisman)
 
YOGA AND EQUITY ( Joanne Pearson) 

WEBSITE (Charlotte Hardwicke)  
Charlotte shared the draft website from Third Angle. The site is nearing completion and the tentative launch date is in mid-December.
Please send board member headshots to Charlotte for site.
Charlotte will reach out to Mandy about scholarship testimonials to add to site.
IMIYA Constant Contact account has a picture of Abhijata. Charlotte will investigate for site.

OUTREACH/COMMUNICATION (Alyssa Sikora (Newsletter), Kyoung Suk Kim (Instagram) 
T-shirts. Will we have different IMIYA shirts in the future? Could we do it in a different way similar to IYNAUS at the 2023 Convention where they had a separate vendor? Promo code so members do not have to pay or they could pay and donate the amount to IMIYA.
Bring remaining IMIYA T-shirts to upcoming workshops.
What could we do for the community in 2025?

By Laws – Rebecca Wallace
IYNAUS  REP UPDATE
IYNAUS held a board meeting on Nov. 4. The board covered timing of board meetings and held brainstorming sessions on increasing membership and revenue. One idea was to have teachers mention IMIYA in class and increase awareness to the general public..
Rebecca will review the brainstorming list and send out an email with possible items for IMIYA to consider at the next meeting.
Adjust December meeting time. We could have it a week earlier on Dec 11.

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