SCCA Foundation Board of Directors
Thursday, 5-17-24 8:00 PM Eastern Time
Zoom

PUBLISHED MINUTES

Directors: Arnie Coleman (Exec. Dir.); Raleigh Boreen, Jim Weidenbaum, Tere Pulliam, Howard Duncan, Bob Eddy

Invited: Kristen Poole (SCCA Marketing); Jeff Dahnert (SCCA, Finance); Peter Schneider (BOD Liaison); Velma Boreen (Minutes)

Meeting was called to order by Arnie at 8:01 PM Eastern Time.

A motion was made by Jim, seconded by Howard to approve the April meeting minutes. Motion passed. The minutes for March will be forwarded to Rachel to post on the SCCA Foundation website.

FINANCIAL REPORT

Financially, the Foundation is in good shape.

Check requests for 1st quarter Region Development Grants will go out tomorrow

Funds from BMW – has the Foundation been receiving them?

Jeff will do some checking

Discussed the ALMA fund raising that Cheryl Babbe set up for funds to go to the IMRRC and SCCA Archives. Still waiting on $500 from Glen Region

A motion was made by Raleigh, seconded to Bob to approve the financial report. Motion passed.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Tire Rack Street Survival - Howard

Nine schools have been completed so far in 2024
Twenty-three schools are scheduled for later this year
Work continues on getting funding to the Regions more quickly

Matt Edmonds retired from Tire Rack in April.

Foundation would like to acknowledge Matt’s involvement with Tire Rack Street Survival, SCCA Solo and many other programs
Kristen will keep us apprised of plans to thank Matt.
Currently there is no replacement for Matt. John Rogers is our main contact with Tire Rack. Relationship is strong so status quo for now.
How will BMW view this change in relationship to Street Survival?

Executive Committee

Weekly calls with Kristen Poole continue

Plans for a once-a month mailer to donors is in process. Andie Albin will share the draft for that mailer.

Fundraising Committee

Donations to the Foundation continue to be good

Jeff Dahnert has started a year-to-year comparison tracker

The Women on Track committee raffle for an SCCA silver wheel pendant has started and will end Memorial Day

Kristen will ask Andie to push this on FB.

Arnie, Jeff and Kristen had a meeting with Mark Steigerwald with the IMRRC on April 24th to learn more about their marketing plan and budget involved in regards to the Corvette that was their most recent sweepstakes. Decision was made to use the in-house email tool we are currently using for the donor newsletter to have a sweepstakes donor database and do email campaigns without impacting subscriptions to regular SCCA email communications.

The page for the next sweepstakes has been created for proof reading.

Recommended to draw winner by December to allow for travel plans for May race.
Sweepstakes will end November 30th.
Minimum amount raised is proposed to be $30,000. Anything less than that and the winner gets 25% of total raised.
Proposed a cash prize of $2,000 for travel expenses if $30,000 is met.

Communications

Article on Tere and Larry Pulliam’s donation of the gold and silver pendants has been posted in the SCCA Foundation website.

Continue to hold pursuing the Generative AI story teller solution.

Foundation will participate and have representation with Inc’s Gen AI development.

Working on a solution to library legacy story articles, along with links to related resources – Inside SCCA podcasts and YouTube Videos

Need to align with ALMA project/fundraising effort.

Added attention to IMRRC archives, however having an independent avenue for donations can be problematic.
Jeff Jacobs should take the lead on this subject with Cheryl Babbe.

Women on Track

There are two open positions on the Executive Committee for Women On Track.

Kelsey will get the information to Jim W to be added to the SCCA Foundation website and also the SCCA website.

Cooler bags have been a huge hit.

Velma and Linda Duncan have been working to get them to as many events as possible.

Developing small scale mentoring programs with individual Regions

Region Development Grants

Three applications for the second quarter have been received

Lakes Superior Region, Central Florida Region and New England Region.

VETMotorsports / Formula SAE / Museum of American Speed, Lincoln

VETMotorsports has been involved with Track Night in America but has not asked for any help with funding.

The SCCA trailer was at Michigan in May for the Internal Combustion competition.

The Carroll Smith Award was presented to Todd Nelson from Purdue.
- Raleigh met with Peter Jones on Wednesday and the decision was made to ask Michael Royce, Detroit Region, to make the Carroll Smith presentation.
- The check and 1099 for Todd were brought to Michigan.

The current Solo display at the Museum of American Speed in Lincoln is scheduled to be there through the middle of September, 2024.

The next display will run from September/October 2024 for 24 months.
Bob is working on getting cars and information
- New display cars will be delivered in October/November
Howard and Mark Weber will be working on the history of the Runoffs
Raleigh and Clay Turner will be working on how Road Racing began in America
Information will be sent to Kristen and her group to do their wordsmithing
- Info will then be sent to MAS so they can get started on the story boards that will be with the display.
Raleigh and Howard will meet with the curators at MAS during Spring Nationals to finalize time line and what they need from us.
Jack Burrows has had to resign from the committee.

Old Business

Info given about the IMRRC Corvette raffle

New Business

The Green Beret Project

Support for youth
Lemons car and race in June
Does it fit our model?
- Safety equipment – suit, belt, fire extinguishers

Meeting adjourned at 9:25 PM Eastern Time.

Next meeting will be June 20, 2024 at 8 PM ET.

Velma

May 2024 Board Meeting Minutes