PLEASE READ:   The Work Program, 2008-09

FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND OTHER BRODS CONCERNED,
 
As provided for in our Constitution, the Board of Directors is to submit a Work Program to the body "within 2 months". We've lost 2 months, so it is only proper to come up with such Work Program very soon.
 
Following work program is submitted FOR YOUR COMMENTS, please?
 
Rest assured that consultations have been made with MOST (but not with all) of the Brods who will be involved in the execution of this program.

1)     Membership Campaign – 75 New Members by the end of July 2009 (from a current base of 125 Active members)

a)     Board of Directors Recruitment Program – Each BOD member to recruit at least one New Member; up to end of March 2008

b)     New Member Recruitment Contest – Open to everybody; up to end of December 2008. Prize: A timeshare weekend in Cancun, Mexico (Thank you, Ike!)

2)     Constitutional Amendments/Ratification – Timetable below

a)     Consultation with the general membership – up to end of November

b)     Ratification of New Constitution – January 26, 2008

c)     Registration with US Government – April 30, 2008

3)     Directory of UP Beta Sigmans in North America – Timetable below

a)     Research by Brandy Ancheta, Dutch Aragones, and all Area/Country Directors – up to end of December 2007

b)     Layouting by Ago Romero – 1st week of Jan 2008

c)     Printing by Ago Romero – 2nd and 3rd week of Jan 2008

d)     Distribution of New Directory – January 26, 2008

4)     Collection Target – Average of 80% all Members for the period 2008 – 2009 (up from 53% in 2006-2007)

5)     Fund-Raising Campaign – International Golf Tournament jointly sponsored by UPBSFI and Makati Chapter (specific proposal to be submitted in a separate document)

6)     Sports & Health Programs/Projects

a)     Tetada Kalimasada – Continuing

b)     Betan Nerve Treatment – Continuing

c)     Pismo Golf Tournament – January 27, 2008

d)     International Bowling Tournament – Manila  (tentative)

7)     Environmentalism (This will be UPBSFI’s social involvement)

a)     Awareness Programs (2008) – Monthly Advisory on Environmental Concerns, c/o Resource Persons (Manuel Gaspay, Ph.D., Gerry Abenes, Ph.D., Victor O. Ramos, former Secretary of Environment & Natural Resources)

b)     Beyond Awareness Environmental Program (2009) – for approval of the BOD before the end of 2008.

8)     Intellectual/Cultural/Aesthetic Activities

a)     Ikebana – scheduled on January 27 a.m., Pismo Beach, c/o Lleva Abenes

b)     Seminar on Six Sigma management systems – c/o Danny Lachica, Ph.D., Six Sigma Black Belter

c)      Photographic Seminar (plus linkages in our website; example would  the photographs of Anna Moraleda)

9)      New Betan Immigrant Handbook (c/o Tatang in consulation with volunteers)

a)      Outline and Table of Contents – April 2008

b)      Inside pages, first draft -  September 2008

c)      Final copy and printing – March 2009

10) Meetings/Conferences

a)     Pismo Beach – January 26-27, 2008

b)     Labor Day weekend 2008 (one-two hours only) – Southern California

c)     Veteran’s Day weekend 2009 – (one-two hours only) Northern California

d)     Pismo Beach – sometime after July 2009 (turnover to new BOD)

11)  Resident Membership Targets (Double our Membership in 2009) – As stated in our statement of vision, the residents will be at the forefront. UPBSFI will serve merely as Secretariat (specifically, records-keeping and orchestrating) efforts of all partners in mission and vision, specifically JC-SOMA, OBBF, BBB, UP Beta Sigma Northern California, UP Beta Sigma Southern California, our concerned Working Committees e.g. Scholarship Committee, and other groups that may be organized/revived e.g. Fine Arts Revival Group (or equivalent); Padre Faura chapter revival program

 

NOTES:

·        Our current balance is $2,768. 58. Details of sources and uses will be shown during our Pismo Conference on January 26, 2008.

·        Except for donations from individual members to the UPBSFI fund, we are simply relying on $25.00 annual membership fees.

·        Given our meager funds, we have to “hold our horses” when it comes to helping brods in need. If at all, we shall conduct separate projects similar to that ones we did for our Beloved Brod Mel Gulfin and family and for the family of Rico Sanchez.

·        Lending to Brods in need will be purely an individual decision, as in the past. The UPBSFI as an institution does not have a lending program and will refrain from either endorsing or coordinating such efforts.

·        Donations from outside of the Philippines (including US, Canada, and Australia) meant to strengthen our recruitment efforts e.g. scholarship funds, resident membership training programs, concerts, etc. shall be directly mailed/hand-carried to our Philippines Treasurer Raffy Hidalgo in the case of Diliman/Padre Faura programs and to a BBB-designated brod in the case of UPLB.

·        As mentioned in another previous email, only donations to UPBSFI funds, whether from the Philippines or the US and elsewhere, shall be subject to audit by Auditor Dan Lachica.

 

 

As ever your servant,

 

Tatang