Board Meeting Update
We had our last board meeting on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 in Titusville in the new Upper Mohawk, Inc. (UMI) building conference room. We had a good turn-out as many of our board members were also attending the annual UMI holiday party weekend. 7th Gen board members and staff appreciate being included in UMI family and corporate celebrations and as always, a good time was had by all.
At our board meeting the focus was on identifying programs that would best utilize our resources to fulfill 7th Gen’s mission to “collaborative ventures that assist Native Americans to achieve their self-determined goals for economic and community growth.” Our commitment to Kim L., our Veterinary Technology scholarship student was fulfilled in December 2009. Kim completed two years of study in the Veterinary Technology Program at Brevard Community College and is expected to graduate in the spring. We have donated computers for student labs to two Tribal schools; Denehotso Indian Boarding School, in Arizona on the Navajo Reservation and to the Loneman Day School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. So, where do we go next? Suggestions included expanding our assistance to Tribal schools by providing infrastructure support; exploring new programs relating to Nuclear Energy and Agricultural Technology for sponsoring college students; looking into a training/intern program with Haskell University to provide researchers for the record repository at Lenexa; and issuing a Request for Proposals available for Tribally-operated schools to submit plans for partnering with 7th Gen on specific information technology related projects. The board is meeting again in April so we will keep you posted.