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geographically and looking at scheduling the conference to meet the needs of
membership. In addition the conference is moving away from an April
meeting date to one earlier in the year. What was impressive was to see all
the data that had been collected and examined in order to really examine our
organization and the willingness of the leadership team to begin to make
changes. Everyone in the room provided comments and feedback. Both of
us felt that our voices were heard.
The last sessions our team broke apart to ensure we received all
information. Tiffany Wild attended sessions that had to do with the business
of running an organization. We talked about budgets, legal paperwork
needed, insurance applications, and policies. As a result, she is currently
working on getting all paperwork in place for our organization moving forward
in accordance to new mandates.
Nicole Johnson attended the membership meeting. This meeting
focused on building and actively engaging membership. Ways to engage and
grow membership was discussed. Nicole was very encouraged and listened
to ideas from other groups. DVIDB would like to start engaging membership
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