JUNG SOCIETY OF ATLANTA BOARD MEETING (VIA ZOOM)
5/23/2021 TIME 2:10 PM – 5:03 PM
Deb Herberger: President, Incoming Communications, Treasury Committee
Nyambura Kihato: Vice President, Program Committee
Cathy Shepherd:Treasurer and President Emeritus
Roger Rudow: Treasury Committee
Peggy Sorrells: Incoming Communications and Library
Bruce Selvage: Writer’s Corner, Collaborative Events
Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee
Deborah Huntley: Program Committee
Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, and Volunteers
Bill Bridges: Website, Publicity, and Marketing, Books & Media
Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing
Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality
Kristine Rudow: Secretary
CJ Johnson – IT Administrator
Absent: Bill Bridges, Mahshid Irvani
OPENING REFLECTION – Deb comments on how well committees are working, and emphasized the need for communication within and between committees, staying with the image of working as a mandala and the need to continue with the flow of this concept. We will consider the idea of coming together to discuss in-person events and do something fun to celebrate our accomplishments.
OPENING REMARKS
The April lecture Jung Society Members participated in a poll for In-person meetings that had a positive result but will also require a re-poll to see where things stand in the summer.
Liam shared the positive response to his reaching out through social media and Bill will report on the results of FB efforts in our August board meeting.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM MEETING 3/23/21 – Kristine reported that changes were made to the original minutes by Deb, Deborah and Cathy. A motion for approval was made by Cathy and Van seconded the motion. The motion was passed by all the board members.
CEU’S – Deb presenting for Karen
Decision made that Deb, CJ and Karen will meet June 1 to discuss how to create a smoother process for post event evaluations by using a post lecture poll format. A possible idea is to form a breakout room for those who have requested CEU’s to meet up at the end of the lecture in order to complete the poll. Then CJ will email the results to Karen, which will create a more efficient way to complete the eval and certificate process. Another advantage for use of this time is to question non-ceu members on other matters such as responses to the presentation with invitation to blog on the Writer’s Corner to share their perceptions and images.
Do we want to request CEU’S from the 3 major entities and to make a request for each entity each time? Need be revisited after Cathy’s report for registered CEU’S in previous events to evaluate.
Deborah stated every speaker has committed to CEU’S until the end of 2021 and that all contracts have gone out except for Donald Kalshed.
The contract states we have 6 weeks to get out the information as per Karen. It was decided to send out information as soon as it is received from the speakers to Karen and to Bill.
Karen will attend the next board meeting to participate in a discussion about possibilities
for CE lectures and workshops in 2022 which will have to be reexamined for possible in-person, hybrid, and some continued virtual. She will also discuss other aspects of the CE application-through- delivery process and how it can continue to be made as efficient as possible.
TREASURY COMMITTEE
North Georgia Community Foundation (NGCF)
Cathy stated she worked 4 1/2 months to access our Vanguard account. Even though Vanguard offers non-profit accounts, the minimum requirement is $100,000. The most difficult drawbacks of continuing with Vanguard is transferring access to new board members every 2 years, having a regular contact individual, and having access to a physical location when needed. After much research she discovered from other Jung Societies about the existence of community foundations for nonprofits. Roger researched the North Georgia Community Foundation and its investment fund open to non-profits. This vehicle offered a less difficult transition for new board members, an office location and customer service for personal assistance to help with our account and a very strong and stable investing strategy. The cost for participation in the fund is 1% a year – considered to be quite attractive given the benefits. Also donations could be made directly to us and other possible benefits that may be of future interest to us as a non-profit organization. The Treasury Committee recommended that the board vote to make the change to NGCF.
Deborah made the motion to transfer investment funds from our Vanguard account into North Georgia Community Foundation and Deb Herberger– Jung Society President, Cathy Shepherd – Jung Society Treasurer and Roger Rudow – to be designated as authorized signers for the account. Nyambura seconded the motion. The motion was passed by all the board members.
TREASURER’S REPORT
Cathy hired a new CPA Jan Fishbeck who will work with Quickbooks at $50 per hour. She has worked as CFO for two previous companies. She has set up our Quickbooks account up to April.
Well Fargo Account $9,817.90
Vanguard Account $58,636.88
Assets (Accounting For Stored Items, Election, Library for Insurance Purposes)
Cathy and Deb have collected assets from the church including the wagon, the sign, The Red Book, art equipment, and the books and equipment. Bill has the ‘for sale’ books and CJ has received all the electronics of the Jung Societies along with the laptops and is checking their working order and has categorized them. Zee has the coffee maker and water urn. We will distribute other unneeded items to charity. Cathy has received help from 2 library sciences graduates and the 3 of them have gone through all books in the library and relabeled a lot of the books and CJ will be bringing this update online and a projected value for insurance purposes will be done. CJ is planning a short video of a visual of the library including instructions on how to check out books in the future.
Cathy reported on event attendance and CEU purchases. She questioned re CEU’S: do we apply for all 3? It was group consensus ( without a vote) that when we offer CEUs for an event , that we offer for all 3 licensing boards.
Karen is on the agenda for the next board meeting to discuss the process of deciding which events to offer CE in 2022,and in what format (lecture, workshop, collaborative)?
Stats for past meetings:
Susan Olson 101 registered 61 members 12 CEUs
Kathleen Wiley 80 registered 54 members 13 CEUs
Lionel Corbet 93 registered 45 members 21 CEUs
Cathy to investigate direct payment by the bank for sending out payments to the speakers due to mail issues. Cathy also mentioned that with all the changes to the treasury and its committee, we might be able to look at the possibility of going back to the treasurer as an elected board member in the future.
INTERREGIONAL COLLABORATIVE EVENTS
*Sarasota Jung Society
A proposal has been made to do a joint venture with Sarasota Jung Society for a 70/30 % cut of the profits minus expenses. We would place the advertisement on our Constant Contact list and post on our website. For each registration that comes through our website or our Constant Contact list, we would get 30% of the $45 fee for the 2 night event (7/27/21 and 7/29/21). If Jean Raffa generates the referrals, the split is 15% Atlanta & 15% Sarasota Jung Societies – minus the expenses.
Motion made by Deborah to promote the Sarasota collaborative event and to advertise it on our website and Constant Contact for a 70/30 cut of fees and Cathy seconded the motion. The motion was passed by all the board members.
* “The Philosophy of Myth and Archetypes” – (A 7- week on-demand course for possible collaborative event)
(See ‘Zee’s attachments) for the details of the course and the contract involved if we co-sponsor and advertise it. Atlanta Jung Society is being offered 40% cut of the profits
The Board agreed that we would explore this more closely, as well as other opportunities of this kind, for promotional benefits as well as generating more revenue for the society. Discussion on all probabilities including advertising for other programs, recognizing what our limits and goals would be, how we want to post upcoming advertising programs and guidelines within which we choose to collaborate. We will revisit this at a future meeting.
Bruce and Deb talked of working together on the incoming opportunities for collaborative advertising through our website.
Deb made a motion to accept Zee’s proposal to investigate the details of co-sponsoring “The Philosophy of Myth and Archetypes” and to bring it back to the board via email for approval.
Nyambura seconded the motion. The motion was passed by all board members.
PROGRAMS COMMITTEE
Changes made 2021 Schedule Introducing
6/19/21 Jutta von Buchholtz Susan
7/17/21 Steve Buser Pete or Deb?
8/ 21/21 Jeanne Lacourt Deb?
9/18/21 Jerry Wright Cathy
10/17/21 Jerry Ruhl
11/6/21 James Hollis
12/4/21 Donald Kalshed
*Poll For In-Person Meeting In September Will Be Conducted Before June
Lecture
PUBLICITY Social Media Liam
Liam’s Instagram postings of Red Book and other Jung quotes are attracting a lot of attention and interest. He is posting our lectures the week of the event and seeing progress with people connecting to this platform.
With FB the ad revenue spent $40 and reached 4004 people and 73 responses to the event. No way to track what has led to direct sales but $40 investment for the amount of people reached seems very positive. More monitoring needs to be done and Bill will have more information about the publicity for FB at the next Board meeting.
Liam plans to do more collaboration with Bill to help when needed Liam has been working with speakers to assist with promotional videos and will send the information to Bill, who will determine if it is ready to put on the website. Liam communicates how he produces online images to bring speaker topics into fruition.
WRITERS CORNER – Van, Bruce, Deb
Van has posted a written review of James Hollis’ new book “Prisms”.
Need Ideas on how to generate more blogging to Writers Corner as well as reflecting on and determining what direction the Writers Corner might take?
INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS – Peggy, Deb
Peggy found the multiple Zoom Links CJ is sending for our lectures to be very helpful.
UPCOMING AGENDA
CJ and IT Issues
CEU’S – Karen
Programs – Preparations for Hybrid Events
(Bill) Website; also discuss what do With Old Tapes and Movies
Library – Website Video?
Zoho- Cathy
Other Collaboration Opportunities?
NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING
August 8 1:30 – 4:30
Social Board Dinner
July 11 5:00 at Rumi’s Kitchen in Alpharetta
Meeting Adjourned – 5:03 PM
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