National of Jewish Women
Sacramento Section
Board minutes
2/8/2011

Attending:  Lydia Inghram, Carole Jacoby, Debbie Gordon, Cheryl Weiner, Betty Reuben, Irene Jenkins, Joan Bories, Maureen Sipes, Iris Bachman, Doris Gray, Janet Ehrlich, Bonnie Penix and Sharon Cohen

Carole called the meeting to order at 10:00

  Minutes

Correction:  Membership meeting was Jan 14, not Feb. 14

Cheryl moved and Maureen seconded the minutes be accepted as corrected.  Motion approved

  Financial Development:  Cheryl Weiner

Chico's event will be Sunday, Feb. 13.  Shoppers can come in any day during the week and purchases will be kept for pick up on Sunday or after.  They will be included in the 10% donation to NCJW.

Mah Jongg will be May 12 at the Arden-Dimmick Library. This will be an evening event.

  Membership:  Joan Bories

The Membership brunch was held on Feb. 6 and two perspective members and one new member attended.  Four women joined at Founder's Day.

  Community Service

171 blankets have been donated since Sept.

Training for the Crisis Nursery staff will be done by Dr. Arnett.  He has agreed to reduce his fee so that our donation will cover the cost of the training.

  Family Shalom:  Betty Reuben

The two young women who do the healthy relationship training for teens in the Jewish community have expanded the program to their high school as their senior project.

A woman who was a victim of domestic violence would like to work with Family Shalom and area synagogues to provide a support group for victims.

  Elder Abuse:  Irene Jenkins

The next event will be Feb. 27 at Mosaic Law.  Betty and Irene are reviewing documentation to determine the appropriateness of  including a fourth panel member who has been a victim of a financial scam.

Debra Braver will present a program at AERC on March 7th.

The next panel will be on internet security.

  Public Affairs:  Beryl Michaels (e mail report)

A flyer has been prepared  for the March 3 event being co-sponsored with Hadassah on Reproductive Rights. This program is for our members and their guests. We are encouraging all members of each organization to attend. It is an opportunity to see each other and to work together on an issue important to all of us. We will have to pay $50 to KOH library as they must hire their custodian for the evening. We will also be purchasing cookies, water and coffee/tea. We expect the $50 from each organization should cover the costs of the library, the refreshments and printing of flyers.

The event is free, but we are going to have a donations box. Jessica Birch, Hadassah’s American Affairs chair, and I are thinking the money should go to either the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Freedom or the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom. Obviously, this decision has to be made prior to the event so we can have a sign on the donation box. We are also going to have an action plan. Jess and I will be figuring that out in the near future. We want to talk with our speakers about this and about hand-outs, if any.

We have not yet finalized who will welcome and facilitate the program.

Gay has sent electronic flyers to all the synagogues and the federation. Iris has sent the flyer to our membership. Hadassah has sent the flyer to its membership via an e-letter. Deni Marshall sent the flyer to the Bnai Israel Rosh Chodesh list. I handed out flyers for both the Elder Abuse panel on 2/27 and this program at the Women of Distinction luncheon, We want to keep the program  within the Jewish community with emphasis on our memberships, their friends and families. Any suggestions on how to encourage attendance is most welcome.

We will have a table for materials from both groups.

We will need volunteers to help with:

1.       Greeting people

2.       Sign-in,  name tags and handing out programs

3.       Helping with refreshments

4.       Helping with clean-up

5.       Someone to bring NCJW materials for the ”organizations table”

If anyone can help us line up 3 or 4 volunteers, that would be great. We are also recruiting three or four Hadassah volunteers.

Please invite anyone to call me (486-4926) or email me (beryl.miochaels@comcast.net) with suggestions.

Lydia expressed disappointment  that the event was scheduled for March 3 when the Co-Presidents and VP of Financial Development would be at the National Convention in Dallas.  She reminded the board it is their responsibility to attend all events when possible.  The board will need to decide which organization should get donation.  Iris will research the organizations and e mail the board.  Doris will bring the NCJW banner.

  Treasures:  Maureen Sipes

Income: $23,874.57

Expenses:  $17,705.19

  Financial Secretary:  Debbie Gordon

Two new Life Members and two making payments

  Corresponding Secretary:  Bonnie Penix

No report

  Program:  Doris Gray

Founder's Day was very successful with 83 attending and earned a profit.

Ten women have signed up for the 4/3 Crocker Art Museum event.

Paid-up Membership / Installation will be June 26 and a location is needed.  Rex Babin and Rick Kushman were suggested for program

  Bulletin / Website:  Iris Bachman

April 15 is the deadline

  Tributes:  Janet Ehrlich

$180 for the month and $939 to date.

She received thank you notes for Barbara Goldberg  and Jean Halfant.

  Old Business

National Convention:  If anyone has suggestions or comments call Lydia or Carole

Council Shabbat will be March 26.  Please let Renee or Joan know if you can bring food.  Call Cary Cohn to participate in the service.

  New Business

Carole, Lydia, and will report on the convention.  Bring a dairly lunch and we will ask Les if we can use the dinning room.

Cheryl suggested a community service project that would reach out to families of deployed servicemen and women

Getting young women should be a number one goal.

April 3 will be the Emancipation Shower at Beth Shalom.

The next meeting will be March 8th.  Goldie will host and Iris will take minutes.

Meeting adjourned at 11:40

Respectfully submitted,

Sharon Cohen

Recording Secretary

National Council of Jewish Women