The one absolute promise I made about serving on the PASS Board is that I would let you know what I was doing there. Well, we’re two weeks in and I figured now was a good time for a report.

Next week is my first board meeting (and I will report back on how that goes). I’ll be presenting the goals I’ve worked up for the Chapters and see how many of them we can get approved and then how many of them we can deliver.

In the time I’ve had on the board so far, a big part of what I’ve been doing is learning about what has gone before. What kind of goals did we have for last year. Which of them were delivered. Which weren’t. Why. What’s our budget. That sort of thing. It’s been very interesting and enlightening. I’ll say this right here, send Wendy Pastrick (b|t) a note thanking her for her hard work for the PASS Chapters. She’s done some good stuff.

Another thing I’ve been doing is getting hooked into all the communications with the Chapter Leaders and the Regional Mentors. So far, most of that has just been along the lines of welcoming new Chapter Leaders, “Welcome to your new job, sucker, uh, I mean valued volunteer…” Kidding. I ran a chapter for four years. It’s tough, but rewarding. We’re setting up calls with the Chapter Leaders and with the Regional Mentors so that I can talk to them directly to get a good sense of what the heck PASS is doing for them or needs to do for them.

I’ve also been getting connected with my cohorts at the management company. I won’t betray who they are because they haven’t said I could (although, pretty sure a certain “Wonder Woman” is going to be upset that I didn’t drop her name, you figure it out). These are the people that are doing most of the work managing the relationships between PASS and the Chapters and the Regional Mentors. I wouldn’t say I’m just a figurehead, but I don’t get paid to do what they get paid to do. We’ve had several calls in order to keep things going on the goals already set and to get going on the new goals. I even got to approve a thing. WHOOP!

I’ll post again after the board meeting, especially once I see which of the goals I’m trying to get going I manage to get into the plan.

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And no, I still haven’t changed everything.

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