Hello NEOA Board, I will be co-chairing membership with Jessica Coronel this year. This is a friendly reminder that all voting board members must have their memberships paid for the year. If you have any questions regarding your membership status, please reach out to Jessica or me. Taryn Tomkins MassEdCO Director of Professional Development and Staff Support for GEAR UP MA 18 Chestnut Street, Suite 210 Worcester, MA 01608 (508)826-8567 [cid:d2c870dd-0271-4f00-951a-7f1b1a443a33] ________________________________ From: Lindsay Carpenter via Neoaboard <neoaboard@lists.neoaonline.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 12:40 PM To: NEOA Board 2023-2024 <neoaboard@lists.neoaonline.org> Cc: Lindsay Carpenter <lindsay.carpenter@lyndoninstitute.org> Subject: [Neoaboard] Welcome to the 2023-2024 NEOA Board!! CAUTION: This email was sent from an external source. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello to the NEOA board for 2023-2024 year, Welcome and thank you for volunteering to serve in your role on the NEOA board. I will be submitting a more 'formal' welcome for the NEOA membership in the Fall Newsletter, but wanted to reach out to the board and welcome new and returning members; you can find the current list of members here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pNIv70uS1L9ojawm5HvmE0un1ZcpF-ZvwIimzuqlgSs/edit?usp=sharing>. It will also be updated on our website, which you can find here. <https://www.neoaonline.org/index.php> If you have not visited the NEOA website, I would encourage you to do so before our first meeting. I would particularly encourage you to read and familiarize yourself with the following: -Mission & Vision<https://www.neoaonline.org/n_mission_vision.php> -Strategic Plan<https://www.neoaonline.org/n_strategic.php> -By-Laws<https://www.neoaonline.org/n_bylaws.php> These are all important documents that will help guide our work in the coming year. A couple other important pieces: -If I am missing anyone on the board member/committee list, please let me know ASAP so I can get them this information. -Chairs of committees: if you have a co-chair please let me know who that is so I can add them to the listserv. I'd like each committee to have a co-chair so that if one person can't attend in-person, the other person can (hopefully). -If you are traveling to the COE conference coming up and able to volunteer some of your time, please let me know so I can connect you with a member of the committee. I will be in DC starting this Thurs., and excited to see all of my EOP colleagues. Lastly (for now), our first board meeting of the year is September 21-22 at Ashworth By the Sea in Hampton, NH. I need to give the hotel a count for rooms and meals. Thursday we will eat dinner offsite, but breakfast and a boxed lunch will be served at the hotel. Please complete this form<https://forms.gle/VXmkSxDu5wWdcie48> by Friday, Sept 8. I will have an agenda out next week, if you have anything you'd like to add, please let me know. Thank you for reading this lengthy email! Be in touch with any questions you may have. Best, Lindsay -- Lindsay Carpenter (she/her) Director of Upward Bound | Lyndon Institute 168 Institute Circle, P.O. Box 127, Lyndon Center, VT 05850 Ph 802-535-3636 | www.lyndoninstitute.org<http://www.lyndoninstitute.org> STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may include privileged or otherwise confidential information. Any unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying, use, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you received this message in error, or have reason to believe you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.