NDHRC Moving Forward...
Greetings from the NDHRC Board of Directors! Several new NDHRC board members joined existing board members for an active and spirited Strategic Planning session recently held April 30th and May 1st at the Dakota Medical Foundation offices in Fargo. The planning session was funded by the Impact Foundation and facilitated by Rose Stoller of the Consensus Council. We set out our plan to move the NDHRC forward in the wake of the economic realities of no new grant funding sources. This had resulted in the elimination of paid NDHRC staff in late 2009. We have returned to our roots as a true volunteer organization with all of its opportunities and challenges. We encourage each of you to “jump in.” The draft Strategic Plan crafted by the NDHRC Board sets out six goals with activities and strategies under each of our goals. The goals are: 1. To speak out consistently, both proactively about human rights issues as they occur, and in a timely manner. 2. To obtain the services of an intern to design, develop and implement the E-newsletter. 3. To establish and maintain the routine public presence on human rights issues. 4. To increase the NDHRC membership. 5. To establish an annual plan of work and programs. 6. To assure a sound organizational structure for the NDHRC. As you can see we continue to have much work to do together in North Dakota as the NDHRC. The NDHRC board is also working to update and keep current our website and Facebook page to stay connected with members. We need your input and ideas and encourage your voice. The NDHRC board meets the third Thursday of the month. You may have noticed the recent Op/ed piece written by board members Amy Phillips and Jeannie Camarillo that spoke out against the discriminatory Arizona law on immigration and that appeared in newspapers around the state. We continue to encourage members to be advocates for human rights and speak out when they see or hear about actions that do not respect the rights of all individuals. We will be in contact again soon. We look forward to a fall workshop, dinner and speaker and the presentation of the NDHRC Arc of Justice Award. Martin Luther King, Jr. said “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” Tom Fiebiger NDHRC Board Chair
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