National Office Blog

Nourish's National Board met on 1/14. Here's some of the important happenings:

New Board Members:

• Lee Buck, an Entrepreneur in the Raleigh Durham area joined the National Board. He will be serving a two year term.
• Pallavi Garg, from the University of Texas at Austin joined the Board as Nourish's first student-board member. She will be serving a one year term.

Committees and Task Forces

• The Board Recruitment Committee, led by Joel Thomas, is preparing "job descriptions" for new potential board members, as well as a Board Rotation Plan.
• The Metrics Task Force, led by Marcia Angle, is working with the staff to make headway towards providing preliminary metrics for Chapters and Project leaders.
• Pallavi Garg will be launching a Nourish Alumni Committee for the purpose of collecting and organizing our alumni's information and beginning a discussion on ways to keep them involved with Nourish's mission.

For the Budget

• The Give the Gift of Nourish Campaign was a huge success, raising over $6,000.
• In December, the Park Foundation chose to support the National Office with a grant — exciting!