Project Sanctuary Executive Director’s Report

Board of Director’s Meeting May 2, 2006

Fundraising:

• The Mendocino Wine Affair: The dates are June 23 and 24, 2006. Please save these dates. Staff, volunteers, and Board members are signing up to work a shift in support of these events. Please sign up as soon as possible, if you can and haven’t already.
• Donations received from newsletters resulted in the following:

January 2005 - $3,128

April 2005 - $1,590

October 2005 - $2,679

February 2006 - $1,510

Program Operations, Events, and Community Outreach:

● Denim Day: Staff made presentations to several community groups. Press releases, community briefs, and letters to the editor were submitted to coast and inland newspapers.

● Program Operations: Services to new clients in all offices and the shelter has been very busy and unusually challenging

● Grant Applications and Awards:

o The FESG re-application (shelter staffing) was submitted. We reduced our application request to $100,000. This amount is a 20% increase over the ‘04-06 award. In our final analysis we think this amount is more likely to be successful.

o Budgets and work-plan revisions for DHS are due on May 1^st.

o United Way did not fund our 2006/07 application for the “Community Impact Fund”. This would have covered motel vouchers and some shelter costs. This one was a long shot, but would have been nice.

o Christine is requesting funds from Mendocino Forest Products to pay for re-roofing the Coast office

o A proposal for Tobacco Settlement monies for 2 years of prevention education program expansion is still pending.

o The Rotary Club of Mendocino awarded $1,200 to the Fort Bragg office to replace a leaking door, purchase and install a ceiling fan, and pay labor for interior door “tune-ups”.

Staffing:

Recruitment for a bilingual, bicultural crisis counselor for the Fort Bragg office remains open. In the meantime, the wonderful Bonnie McCampbell is putting in additional hours.