We have formed an initial Board to get things moving. It is composed of myself, my wife (Judy Jones) and Charlotte Bradsher, a nurse from the Memphis area. Our next move is to have our second Board meeting and elected additional board members to round out our "Working Board." We then plan on establishing an Advisory Board. If you have interest in either Board just know that our Board positions are for working and advising, and neither come with pay or perks. We want all donations we receive to go to the work and not to management or administrative costs.
We are also tracking the establishment of organizations in Zambia who will carry out the in-country hands-on work for ZP as well as investing time in forming relationships with existing organizations.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Website (finally) Complete
We have finally completed the first of our website. We have posted some information about the programs and a few of the partnerships we have established as well as a little bit more about us. We encourage you you visit the site, www.ZambiaProject.org and read some of the stories (click the word STORIES on the left hand side). We also have many photos and a few videos linked to the site. We will continue to add content as we have time.
We are excited to see the paperwork slowly working its way through. As most know, it's always tough getting started. We have assigned our initial Board members and will be having our first meeting in a couple days to discuss progress, direction and expanding the working Board by 3-5 people. We will then launch out to make more contacts with organizations already involved in various aspects of what we do, but in other areas/countries. We polan to learn from them and work with them to bring more aid and support to Zambia.
We are excited to see the paperwork slowly working its way through. As most know, it's always tough getting started. We have assigned our initial Board members and will be having our first meeting in a couple days to discuss progress, direction and expanding the working Board by 3-5 people. We will then launch out to make more contacts with organizations already involved in various aspects of what we do, but in other areas/countries. We polan to learn from them and work with them to bring more aid and support to Zambia.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Zambia Project Website...
The homepage of our new site is now up. You can visit www.ZambiaProject.org to see what's available right now. You'll notice the links down the left side; including the Blog (this one), the Photos (on Flickr) and Videos (on YouTube, more to come) and Stories (which we haven't established yet). You will also notice toward the bottom of the left side, the Goals we have for 2009. You can open and view this PDF and get an idea of what we have planned for this year.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Corporation Documents Filed
Last week we completed and mailed out the Articles of Incorporation for The Zambia Project. We hope that returns this week or next and we'll move straight into the 501(c)(3) application. We are busy drafting our organizational documents including mission statement, vision statement, foundational principles as well as descriptions of the various divisions. We will post more as we have it completed. -ty
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