Date: March 15, 2021

Time: 1:30pm MST, 3:30pm CDT

Location: via Zoom 

Meeting Type: Regular Meeting

How Called: Standing meeting

Convened: 3:30 (CT)

Attendees: Barry, Maryanna, Katherine

1 Minutes

Approval of February minutes.

2 New Business

Elected Officers 2021-2022: Barry Glicklich as President and Treasurer, Maryanna Milton as VP, Katherine Lato as Secretary and VP-Communications.

Conflict of Interest paperwork has been turned in.

Sang Happy Birthday to Maryanna.

3 Action Plan

We will go through the action plan tool individually and share – https://www.theleadershipdeficit.org/defining-an-action  

Discussed how useful, or not, the tool was. It seemed to work better for a bigger, new goal rather than ongoing work that we’ve been doing.

Went through the items that we used it for:

1. specifically connect with 2-3 partners to identify their gaps that we could help with
2. create a working group that joins PBDD with NDIA or create a working group with a few NDIA partners
3. expand grant-giving program to give a grant in a competitive way like a video pitch with one winner, or provide a general grant asking for what is unique about their organization.
4. monitor NDIA mailing list to identify gaps that we can help fill
5. strengthen the voice of the national organization and smaller organizations so there is continuous attention to the important issues in digital inclusion
6. stretch develop a searchable tool for online classes

4 Information Sharing

1. Net Inclusion Soiree planning. Need ingredient list for both a margarita with alcohol and without.
2. Review partner description update status: Connected Nation follow-up: Web page updated. Sent descriptions to Digital Bridge & Ed Tech of WNY on Feb 16. Ed Tech approved it
3. Web page updates: Research, Low-cost Access options, Public Policy Initiatives, Conferences, New (added NDIA conference and our reception).
4. Updating Partner info — next two Free Geek & Helping Link. See Latest two updates to read through, make suggestions, then we can contact the organizations to run it past them. Doing next month.
5. Partner Status: Strive2Thrive Edu found us and contacted us. New partner.
6. Milwaukee- third/final capacity building webinar held 2/25
7. Net Inclusion housing in Portland. After some effort, Barry procured a refund for 2020. Working to reserve space for 2022

5 Action Item Status Updates (if time)

Walking through Action Item List and noting updates. In the minutes, this will record items closed during meeting. 

1. Closed 3/15/21 – Opened Jan 31, 2020 Go through Core vision tool – https://www.theleadershipdeficit.org/my-core-vision  and action plan tool – https://www.theleadershipdeficit.org/defining-an-action Good discussion on what success looks like, and how we measure it.
   1. Here’s some of what we came up with from the first tool:
      1. PBDD interacts regularly with 20-30 partner organizations sharing challenges, solutions and specifics.
      2. PBDD maintains a website with information useful to digital inclusion agencies.
      3. PBDD provides shared materials that are enhanced and reused.
      4. People ask to join PBDD as partners,
      5. PBDD partners answer our emails and provide input to research papers
      6. PBDD connects two or more partners who can learn from each other to solve a specific problem.
   2. Next step — discuss in person, including the action tool above and will incorporate the goals in our goal setting next month.

6 Time and Location for Next Meeting

Next meeting — April 9 1:30pm MST, 3:30pm CDT via  Zoom

7 Adjourn

Adjourned: 4:30