December Board Meeting
Finances Update
FRA Update
 Hana: Kyle stepped down from the ED of FRA, what do we want to do with
 that organization/what are the implications for our finances?
 Rhonda: What happens if we just absorb FRA into BFR?
Hana: Nothing, potentially. Maybe some more of my time.
Budget 2015
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We’ve added an expense for a small storage space because we moved BFR out of Hana’s closet. It will cost ~$1,000/ year.
Michael: I’d be with volunteering my garage for storage space. It’s ~1 car’s worth of space, and people are welcome to come in and out.
Hana: Okay, I’m going to leave the $1,000 in the budget, and we’ll look to
 move everything out into your garage ASAP.
Co-working spaces: Hana will ask with BHP if they know about spaces,
Michael will put Hana in touch with Eli who owns warehouse space that’s being converted into a coworking space.
 Hana: I was playing around with the idea of hiring another part-time person because it would be great to have someone that is doing donor-relationship work. 10hrs/week is about $5000 worth of payroll
 Allison also notified me of the possibility of her leaving in August for grad school. We would have plenty of notice, but bringing in another part-timer
 would also help replace Allison if/when she left.
 Michael: Would this allow you to work less?
Hana: No. It would just allow us to get done what we need to get done.
 Hana: Do we have any reservations about hiring someone in general?
 Board: Generally, no. People are concerned about fundraising capacity
(We’re approaching a $100,000 budget).
FUNDRAISING PLAN
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 Individual contributions are at $27,000.
 Hana: Advertising didn’t happen. I did all of the preparation work, and didn’t
 have the time to pursue businesses.
It’s a reasonable goal to set our individual contributions goal for 2015 at
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$35,000.
Businesses contributed $10,000 this year. (this is a number we might want to lower).
Feast of Fermentation netted $6,000 and planning started in July.
Barbara: If that is going to be our big annual event, we should start planning
 that before July.
Rhonda: I think that $18,000 (Up $5,000 from last year) for events looks too big.
 Hana: We’re building upon events that are established in the community, we should be able to grow these. I’m doing research on community bike rides

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 that we could partner with. Income from FFS should grow substantially this year. I’d rather put more expectations on fundraising events because it’s
 something that we can actively pursue.
Rhonda: I think grants could go up, and we’
 Michael: I motion to approve the budget as it exists, with the ability to amend it in the future.
Rhonda: I second the budget.
All approved.
Food Rescue Alliance
 Kyle left. FRA has no money and no employees. Active Board Members left are Hana, Caleb, and Wendy.
 Hana: To me, it makes little sense to let FRA run the way it is (with Kyle’s 4 hours/week).
 Legally, FRA is a chapter of BFR, as is DFR and CSFR. Both other organizations are doing really well.
 There definitely is a need for an FRA-type organization. We have groups contact us all the time about starting their own food rescue.
 o We could ask DFR/CSFR to take on mentorship roles of new groups.
Xavier: I think that we should go back to where FRA is a project of BFR, and
BFR gives a very limited amount of time to interested groups.
What we’re seeing is that groups that are thriving are those we had personal  connections with. So simply handing over The Packaged Deal to groups has not worked.
 A que stion that we’ll have to answer in the near future is: What does it mean to be a part of the Alliance? This will, in some ways, define our relationship
 with other groups
Can we build a structure for people to get 501(c)3
Things Kyle Promised us:
1) [Document] Contacts and connections...
2) How to start a Food Rescue- Step by Step with different stages and research questions.
3) Lessons Learned and Insights.
4) 3 different scopes of work with different hours per week- what we can accomplish, what would it cost to pay someone for it
5) Michael: Recommendation on what to do with our 9 incubator applicants
6) Where all the organizations are at that contacted us for programming (pilot and incubator)
Board Recruitment, Bylaw Change?
End of Year Evaluation for Hana

 ACTION: Every board member will fill out an evaluation for Hana, and send the eval to Rhonda. Rhonda will compile the evals, and send to Hana by the
January meeting.
Self Eval: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DKRjcHO4GPh2Zuphch9bwdXD8GX34vsRQIdUs_qCfc/edit
Employment Contract: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YLQCmGHoU5LsnkprOHB40ElpI4qKG q3akh9iZm-bzq0/edit?usp=drive_web
Renewal of Hana’s Contract
 Tabled until January
Board Accountability (P.D.)
Board Giving