NOFA 4/10 meeting

1) DATE:

4/10/17

2) MEETING TIME

(beginning and ending): 6:30-7:00

3) LOCATION:

Kalkin Hall

4) CAT MEMBERS PRESENT: (include CAT group selfie)

Shea, Niki, Tate, Bari

5) CAT MEMBER ROLES (W suggests switching these roles for each meeting):

A) FACILITATOR (1 person) - "steers" conversation and runs meeting → Niki

B) NOTE KEEPER/PUBLISHER (1 person) - records and publishes notes at CAT blog → Tate

C) TIME KEEPER (1 person) - sets meeting length of time and watches clock → Shea

D) AGENDA CREATOR (1 person) - writes out and shares agenda with CAT just prior to meeting → Bari

6) CAT WORK UPDATE:

A) What CAT tasks have you accomplished to date? (use previous minutes)

• Initial Interview with Kim
• Discussed possible projects
• Established 2 deliverables
• Reached out to our other four contacts for interviews - have only heard back from one person so far - but are going to continue to reach out
• Created our excellence checklist
• Heard back from all of our follow up interviews
• Planned out who is working on what for communications asset mapping report
• Completed our communications asset report

B) What immediate and long-term CAT tasks lie ahead for the week, and who will execute?

• For the week ahead well all need to continue working on and finalize our communications asset report
• Bari will be tackling NOFA's website and Instagram, Niki is taking on their Facebook and newsletter, Shea is working on their brochures and blog, and Tate is breaking down their advertisements and yearly reports
• We are waiting to hear back from Kim, and then will on to create NOFA's internship listing-- we emailed her again this morning in hopes to hear back from her ASAP.

C) What was the most CHALLENGING element re: the past week's CAT work?

• Hearing back from the members of NOFA who we reached out to for more interviews - but by the end of last week we have all heard back now, yay!
• Having a clear, concise dialogue

• Combining our skills and ideas with their goals
• Not hearing back from our main contact

D) What was the most REWARDING element re: about the past week's CAT work?

• Hearing back from all of the people on the NOFA team that we reached out to for interviews
• Deciding on who is doing what for the communications asset report
• Finalizing our second deliverable

E) What is your CAT doing really well right now?

• Communication among team members
• Working together
• Establishing common goals for the project
• Assigning roles
• Preparing for our projects due date

F) What is your CAT needing to work on right now?

• Cleaning up and finalizing our communications asset report
• Create our final internship listing