Meeting Minutes

Attending: Rick Durham, Tom Underwood, Debbie Hamrick, Margaret Pooler, Pam Bennett, Suzi McCoy, Clint Albin, Ellen Bauske, Shannon Spurlock, Julie Weisenhorn, Casey Sclar Grant Report It was submitted on the 11.14.16. Abstract and listed of letter writers will be posted. Committee Reports. Debbie, Pam and Julie met via conference call Nov. 7. Discussed individual committee work/focuses and building efficiencies across the three committees. Economic (Debbie reported). Group meet every two weeks. {Planning work for 2017). They are planning work for 2017 and focusing on a project … [Read more...] about November 15th Conference Call

Attending: Pam Bennett, Debbie Hamrick, Clint Albin, Rick Durham, Casey Sclar, Suzi McCoy, Julie Weisenhorn, Shannon, Ellen, Tom Underwood, Penny, Margaret SCRI pre-proposal update Status of pre-proposal: need list of committee members from the community committee and the environmental committee. We already have committee members from the economic committee. Gail has sent out to NICH Executive Committee, this morning. Will send to David Close, after conference call. Feedback ~ economic ## from Bruce Butterfield’s research are based on DIY gardener, and not services for hire. Casey … [Read more...] about November 1st Conference Call

Attending: Ellen, Debbie Hamrick, Penny, Margaret, Tom U., Clint, Pam, Gail, Julie, Suzi, Rick, Casey, Shannon 1. Discuss role of NICH councils to overall NICH strategic efforts (Rick & Margaret) a. Rick and Margaret are co-chairing government/university council b. What should they be asking potential council members for, and what is the role of the councils? Should it be to make sure that the goals of NICH reflect what folks are seeing in their own university or government lab? c. Shannon and Tom (co-chairs of the non-profit council) have discussed this and came up with 4 points i. … [Read more...] about October 18th Conference Call

Attending: Margaret, Cyndi, Clint, Casey, Tom U, Rick, Debbie, Ellen, Pam, Shannon, Suzi (others???? ~ I didn’t hear everyone who logged in) 1. NIFA Strategic Planning Grant Readiness (Casey) a. Call for SCRI proposals is out (RFPA, Request for Pre-Applications). b. 4th quarter high level deadline: get relevancy review nominations to Tom B. by end of October. c. Grant Preparation Task Force (Gail, Casey) i. Call for Pre-Proposals Open 1. https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/rfa/FY%202017%20SCRI%20RFPA.pdf 2. Proposals are due November 15th ii. Immediate next steps for proposal submission … [Read more...] about October 4th Conference Call

Attending: Gail Langellotto, Casey Sclar, Pam Bennett, Debbie Hamrick, Ellen Bauske, Clint Albin, Cynthia Haynes, Tom Underwood, Dave Close, Suzi McCoy, Julie Weisenhorn, Penny McBride, Rick Durham, Shannon Spurlock, Margaret Pooler 1. NIFA Strategic Planning Grant Readiness: a.    Status of nominations to pre-application relevance review panel for Tom B.: Tom B. not able to be on call, today. Mentioned that he has received ~10 names, thus far. • this is a critical next step to the success of the initiative, • Nominations/Contact lists: Tom and Suzi have put together a one-pager that folks … [Read more...] about September 6th Conference Call

Attending: Cindy, Suzi, Clint, Gail, Casey, Rick, Penny, Tom, Dave, Ellen, Julie, Tom, Penny Communication and Recruitment Final Update on Recruitment of Chairs (All): Updating the Google Sheet for our Executive Committee to add Suzi as lead of the marketing team and Tom Bewick as our USDA Liaison. Decision was made to call the different sectors (commercial, NGO, land grant) sectors councils. Decision made to call goals (social, environmental, economic) committees. Steering Key Members to the Right Committees (Casey) We discussed a potential honorary chair for this … [Read more...] about August 23rd Conference Call