Meetings

Action Items of WG-USA Board Meetings

Board Teleconference, April 15, 2010

1. Approved the Program Committee’s use of rapporteurs as short term researchers for the Program Priorities:  education of girls, trafficking, and passing CEDAW.
2. Agreed to appoint a task force to develop a process to vet issues on which we wish to take a position.
3. Extended membership at half the regular dues to full time undergraduate students giving them all privileges except serving on the Board and IFUW membership.
4. Agreed to apply for membership in the Civil Society Network, a United Nations affiliate available to NFA groups around the world.
5. Set up a task force to develop policies for social networking in the name of the organization.
6. Approved a Vision Statement:  WG-USA believes that the cornerstone for a peaceful world will be women and girls empowered by universal education and economic security to advocate for themselves and their communities.
7. Revised the Mission Statement to read:  Women Graduates-USA empowers women to secure a better world through education, advocacy, friendship, and mutual support.
8. Developed the following Core Values:  communicate transparently, maintain high standards of performance, include and  respect diverse views, be ethical and honest.
9. Agreed to the following Operational Criteria:  operate virtually, think flexibly and resourcefully, focus on international women's connections and issues.
10. Appointed Pamela Pommerenke to the Membership Committee.

11. Appointed Bonnie Lincoln as our candidate to the International Special Projects Committee.

Board Teleconference, March 15, 2010

1. Decided to select a delegate to represent WG-USA at the IFUW Training Program “Towards a Sustainable Multigenerational Approach” at the IFUW Conference.
2. Learned that our resolution entitled “Human Trafficking Violates Human Rights” will be voted upon at the IFUW Business Meeting.
3. Adopted the policy that an Audit Committee Report be conducted annually and reported at the following Annual General Meeting.
4. Accepted the Audit Report finding our finances in order since the founding of WG-USA.
5. Launched Members Meeting Place on www.WG-USA.org.
6. Planned individual notes to members who have not continued to pay their dues.
7. Updated the Policies and Procedures Manual and the Job Descriptions Manual.
8. Set September 17-24, 2010 as the dates to vote on candidates for office for WG-USA.

Board Teleconference, January 19, 2010

1. The 2010 WG-USA Budget was approved.
2. The mission statement of WG-USA will become the direction for program activities and criteria for selecting program emphasis were approved.
3. The president was given permission to sign on to those documents stating our established policies.
4. Joan Thompson was appointed to the Membership Committee.
5. Janet Heinicke was nominated for the IFUW Fellowships Committee; Louise McLeod was nominated for the IFUW Status of Women Committee; Kathleen Laurila was nominated for the IFUW Resolutions Committee.
6. Florine Swanson will contact AAUW for possible promotion of the IFUW Conference with AAUW.
7. The University of Iowa Archives for Women has been chosen as the site for the archival records of WG-USA.
8. The WG-USA credit card has been approved with Bank of America.