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Foundation moves to recruit corporate donors and add Scott Parsons to board; plans website revamp and photos
Summary
The board reviewed recruitment strategies to bring high-capacity corporate leaders onto the foundation board, moved to add Scott Parsons as a member, and approved a plan to decouple the foundation web page from the district site and collect professional headshots of members.
Board members discussed expanding the foundation’s board to include more high-capacity corporate donors and officers who could commit sponsorship dollars. Speakers described outreach plans to local CFOs and executives to secure long-term fundraising commitments and said such members could be asked to support committees and delegate operational tasks to staff or other volunteers.
The board reviewed bylaws to confirm membership limits: at no time should the board have more than 30 members and no fewer than 10. A motion was made to accept Scott Parsons as a new foundation board member; the transcript records the motion and subsequent supportive comments, but a formal roll-call or vote tally is not recorded in the provided segments.
Separately, the board proposed adding headshots alongside board member names on the foundation website and to separate the foundation page from the school district site so the foundation can better showcase events and fundraising. Members discussed logistics for photos (Julie Hess offered to take pictures) and scheduled a school-picture day for members without a photo (noted in the transcript as November 5). The group agreed outreach should include clear messaging that the foundation is a separate nonprofit that supports but does not govern the school district.
Next steps include follow-up outreach to prospective board candidates, completing the board photo collection and updating the foundation’s standalone web presence.
