Through GlobalEyes

Greetings:

I hope this note finds everyone well.

There are a few changes that I felt you should be aware of regarding our projects with Tropical Focus:

• Caren has been reassigned to another school in the area. I do not know the details of the transfer but I have inquired with Caren and Tobias. I do know that the Obede feeding program is on hold at the moment and they are considering reinitiating the program at the new school.

• Janet Achieng, the young woman who was volunteering at CRM, has left and a woman named Agnes has replaced her.

• I’ve attached Tropical Focus’s financial statement for December 2006 through the beginning of January 2007 — it details all of the items that were purchased with funding from Jessica’s students.

Also, there are some new things going on with our organization:

Basecamp

Scott has so kindly set GlobalEyes up with a Basecamp account. Basecamp will be a great project management utility and I plan to use it regularly. I will post all important documents on this, including archived and updated financial statements, business plans and also communication archives. Basecamp has a chat capability and discussion forum (writeboard) that we will be using to conduct ongoing virtual communication.

In the “To-Dos” you will find tasks for the organization. Anything filed under a person’s name is assigned to them, tasks assigned to “anyone” are up for grabs and those assigned to “GlobalEyes” are group tasks that everyone should review and contribute to.

Right now, tasks are split between two main projects, one titled “operational” which has administrative and business development materials, the other is “GlobalEyes Actions” which has all the exciting fundraising and new ideas/projects stuff.

Everyone should have received an email in the past few days describing how to login to our Basecamp account. If anyone has problems, let Scott or I know.

Board Meeting

I’ve tentatively scheduled a board meeting for next Friday 2/9 to review (briefly) the 2007 plan and introduce the blog, micro fundraising and sponsorship program ideas. This meeting will be conducted using skype, iChat or traditional conference call...I’ll confirm which soon.

Could everyone please let me know if Friday works for them, and if so, what time(s) is/are convenient.
If Friday is not good, perhaps Saturday or Sunday? Please let me know.

In the event that all board members cannot attend (which I suspect will be the case more than once throughout the life of GlobalEyes!) Scott and I are working on setting us up so all of our board meeting are documented in audio and maybe even video.

Many thanks to all!

Veronica

Dec2006-Jan2007TropicalFocusFinStatement.xls Google Spreadsheets