July 2025 Board Meeting Minutes
SCCA Foundation Board of Directors
Thursday, 7-17-2025 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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PUBLISHED MINUTES
Directors: Jeff Jacobs (Chair); Arnie Coleman (Exec Dir.); Raleigh Boreen, Howard Duncan, Jim Weidenbaum, Tere Pulliam, Bob Eddy; Steve Strickland (SCCA Inc. Liaison); Peter Bollenbecker (SCCA Inc. Liaison)
Invited: Justin Hawkins (SCCA, Finance); Kristen Poole (SCCA, Comms); Velma Boreen (Minutes)
Meeting was called to order by Jeff at 7:01 PM Eastern Time.
A motion was made by Jim, seconded by Raleigh to approve the June meeting minutes. Motion passed. The minutes for June will be forwarded to Rachel to post on the SCCA Foundation website.
FINANCIAL REPORT - Justin Hawkins
$5,000 sweepstakes payment made in July
$25,000 LMS payment to be made in July
Discussion continues on the use of Charity Navigator. IRS does have a charity search also.
Sale of the Spec Boxster funds will be divided between the Women on Track program and Tire Rack Street Survival program
Motion was made by Bob, seconded by Tere to approve the financial report. Motion passed.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Tire Rack Street Survival - Melanie and Howard
Schedule for schools being worked on
25 schools are scheduled so far for 2025
11 schools have been completed
Raleigh, Arnie and Melanie are discussing a plan for Regions requesting financial help with their schools. Information will be sent directly to Melanie and Howard rather than the Foundation Grant Committee. Currently there is $4,000 in the budget for Street Survival and the recommendation is that a maximum of $500 be given to Regions requesting financial help. More financial information from the Regions will be needed for the $500 to be granted. More information will be on the Tuesday email and also the SCCA Foundation website.
Monthly call will take place the week of 7-21-25.
Executive Committee - Jeff and Arnie
Operations Manual
Jeff shared information for the Operations Manual regarding fundraising. This included five (5) companies to help with sweepstakes that occur during the year. Also included were key activities (how many sweepstakes per year) and key SCCA staff contacts.
Fundraising Committee - Jeff and Arnie
Donations report for July was reviewed. MAP continues to provide members an easy way to donate to the Foundation when memberships are renewed.
2026 Monaco sweepstakes package launch will be August 1st with an end date in January. Discussion took place regarding best time to end sweepstakes – either prior to the SCCA National Convention in 2026 so the winner can be announced during the Convention or use the Convention as one last push on sweepstakes sales. The drawing would take place 1 week after the sweepstakes sales ended to allow for any mail-in tickets to be received. The amount of funds given to the winner to help with travel costs and tax implications were also discussed.
Communications - Jim
Articles submitted to SCCA, Inc and published on the Foundation website
Sale of the Porsche Spec Boxster and the new owner, Bert Siebert.
VETMotorsports event calendar updated.
Initial steps with Charity Navigator to get Foundation rated, opening up opportunities for future donations.
Donations page updated.
Future/Pending:
FSAE page needs updating. Work continues on getting the SCCA Foundation and SCCA, Inc. on the FSAE website
Women in Motorsports North America highlights
Archives - Bob
Mark Steigerwald, Director with the IMRRC has resigned. A search committee has been formed to begin work on a replacement,
Four (4) boxes from Reno Region will be delivered to the IMRRC
Bob is working with two other Regions on getting archive material to Watkins Glen.
The Cameron Argetsinger Awards banquet will be in September. Bob and Jim will be attending. A table for 8 is available, with the SCCA Foundation paying for half. Bob is asking SCCA, Inc. to pick up the other half and also have representation from SCCA, Inc. at the banquet. Kristen will work on that request.
Women on Track - Tere
Committee met on July 9th.
Road Racing - Sydney
RunOffs block party plans are underway. Awards collaboration with Women in Motorsports North America being worked on. Andie is making sure SCCA, Inc. is okay with moving forward before plans are finalized. Summary of the proposal:
Lyn St. James Award for Driver Achievement: Performance-based award focusing on top 5-10 drivers by class in National points/RunOffs finish; focus on lap time compared to fastest lap; WoT executive/RR Committee to narrow down to 5 candidates; WIMNA to select winner
SCCA Women on Track Mentor of the Year: Nominated by membership; WoT Executive/RR Committee
Some concern was raised with the WIMNA involvement since Women on Track is an SCCA Foundation program. When would winners be announced? PRI or SCCA National Convention. Tere will get a call scheduled with Sydney, Andie, Kristen and Jeff to discuss the involvement of WIMNA in the WoT program.
RallyCross – Sam is working on monthly spotlights for RallyCross women.
Solo – Chelsea is finalizing the brunch at Solo Nationals and trying to get more women involved on the committee.
Road Rally – no report
Time Trials – continue to look for a chair replacement.
Region Development Grants - Arnie
Two (2) grant requests have been received that need additional work. BOD will continue to discuss the future of the program.
VETMotorsports / Formula SAE / Museum of American Speed, Lincoln – Raleigh
VETMotorsports
Continue to work with Pete Cline on how the SCCA Foundation can continue to help them financially. The budgeted funds for VETMotorsports for 2025 is $10,000. They have spent approximately $6,300. This has been used to help with sending veterans to events and also 3 memberships.
FSAE
FSAE is finalizing plans for the fall meeting for FSAE Teams to be held in Lincoln, Nebraska. They expect 100 teams with 3-4 people from each team attending.
The SCCA Foundation has committed $10,000 towards this meeting.
We are hosting the reception on Saturday evening.
We will also have a 30-minute presentation and a booth in the hallway of the convention area.
Help has been requested from the National office of SCCA with a couple of employees who are closer in age to the students. We will have a solid SCCA and SCCA Foundation presence at this meeting.
There will also be SCCA Foundation handouts available at this meeting for the students.
My presentation at the meeting will be on how the experience with FSAE will affect the students’ future endeavors in life and their careers. I will also talk about how SCCA can do the same thing for them as they begin their careers with these life lessons.
The Carroll Smith Mentors Cup from the SCCA Foundation was presented to Prof. John Fabijanic, Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Velma will be sending two photos to Jim to include with the article for the SCCA Foundation website.
Museum of American Speed in Lincoln
The SCCA display at the Museum of American Speed looks great. Good comments from visitors.
Currently the plan is to have Mike Cobb do a quarterly president’s report from MAS to show and talk about this display. No date has been finalized.
During Solo Nationals, there will be two evening banquets at the MAS. The ProSolo banquet and the ShootOut banquet will be taking place at the facility.
The Museum continues to express their intense desire to have the SCCA Hall of Fame at their facility. The kiosk that they currently have is well done and the SCCA Hall of Fame would be well represented.
Old Business
New Business
Charitable activities will be discussed when Kristen is in Topeka.
Meeting adjourned at 8:14 PM Eastern Time.
Next meeting is August 21, 2025 at 7 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
Velma