Present: Cathy Martyniak, Kelley Cunningham, Peter McKay, Jim Cusick, Jane Anne Carey, Jan Swanbeck
Announcements: October minutes were approved.
Development:Part One. Lane Jimison, the new Library Development Officer, joined our meeting to discuss fund raising. She stated that she is working on a boiler plate template for fund raising proposals.
Development:Part Two. Lane stated that the Libraries need to develop what their priorities of needs are. Jim Cusick stated that the Department Heads should be involved in this needs seeking process. The GMC discussed a template for a fundable ideas registry. Perhaps this could be placed in the Public Folder in Outlook. The template idea will be processed through the usual approval process.
Development: Part Three. The GMC decided that Lane will be included in all email correspondence with in the group as well as minutes, agendas, etc. We also stated that she may contribute content to the next Grant Notes newsletter that we will be producing soon. She may have as much space as she needs. This arrangement shall be open ended. [NOTE: we might need to rename newsletter to indicate new and broader scope.]
Mini Grant Update: Members discussed feedback that was received in regards to the MGP as well as the calls made to unsuccessfull applicants. One comment was that a lot of work was put into each proposal and still some of them were not funded. The group discussed perhaps having the directors put some money in the budget for operational projects for the library. We discussed an idea of maybe having two different categories for the MGP applications next time. We will continue to discuss more improvements to this program. Cathy stated that the first Mini grant report will be due at six months followed by the final report due at 12 months. Grace was not present to update us on budget changes we had requested in the 4 mini grants that were funded.
Membership: Cathy stated that we will use the membership guidelines that Peter McKay developed back in November 2005. The Chair elect is Jim Cusick.
Works in progress: Chelsea and Cathy are working on an NEH proposal. Jan Swanbeck is working on an LSTA proposal.
Next Meeting: Monday December 18, 2006 from 10:00-11:30 am in LE Conference Room.
Grants Management Committee 