Overflow Cafe Board of Directors

Oct. 28, 2024

10 a.m.

Board members:

Amanda Humphrey, President

Lise Meinhardt, secretary

Brian Young

Courtney Faughnan

Kathy Haas

Mary Caldwell

Rosh Foskey

Sarah Gerichten

Topic 1: Intro to Overflow

• Board introductions
• Where we began
• Where we are now
• Where we are going for 2024

Topic 2: Recent accomplishments

• The Blessing Shed has had more than 4,000 guests this year.

• Jan 345 guests / 1902 items
• Feb 294 / 2070
• March 330 / 1398
• April 352 / 1486
• May 403 / 6015
• June 399 / 8416
• July 518 / 8327
• August  580 / 7242
• September 627 / 8000 estimate

• We received our first non-corporate grants! Onslow Caring Communities approved us for $2790 for the Blessing Shed and United Way approved us for a $2500 sponsorship.

• Accountability report will be due in April
• Spoke at the foundation dinner on Thursday and folks were amazingly supportive in our efforts

• We provided 54 area students with spring break food to cover the cafeteria closure. We do not have a count of the number of items yet.
• We provided 33 area students with breakfast, lunch and snacks to cover the cafeteria closure for summer. This was more than 7900 food items.
• We have set up on Bonfire to design shirts and sell them as a consistent fundraiser. We have not yet designed any.
• ReStore Church helping day
• How did Trunk or Treat go
• Catalyst Church Richlands took us on as a mission partner

• What does this mean?

Topic 3: Operation Christmas Stocking

• 20 students = $10,000
• 15 Richlands schools (3 each school)
• 3 Southwest HS
• 2 Chinquapin Elementary
• More if funds become available
• We need sponsors.
• So far we have 2 covered financially, and one local business committed to wiping out one kid’s list. 17 to go.
• Seven local businesses will host collection boxes in November for breakfast, lunch and snacks
• How you can help: Bring the fliers / program to your churches, friends and social clubs. We will need their support.

Topic 4: Upcoming fundraisers / community engagement

• Online silent auction Nov 1-15
• Giving Tuesday  - Dec 3 - collection drive at the Shed
• Breathe and Feed - Dec 4
• Burrito Shak - Dec 9
• Dec 14 - Breakfast with Santa
• Dec 14 - gift wrapping fundraiser - we’ve got a lot of wrapping paper stashed in storage already thanks to donors.
• MAYBE: December - hot chocolate and snacks during Christmas parade
• END OF YEAR GIVING: last year we brought in $5K from black Friday - Dec. 31

Topic 5: Financials

• Facebook giving currently disabled due to paperwork issue
• How do the accounts look currently

• General Fund: 578.16 Storage unit rent paid through December for blessing shed, Nov 7 for yard sales.
• Blessing Shed: 4573.99
• Sustaining students / Operation Christmas Stocking: 1132.42

Topic 6: Grant updates

• The Lawrence Foundation turned us down.
• On the radar:

• Target (asking for $500)
• Aldi (asking for $500)
• Walmart (asking two remaining stores for $5000 each)
• Food Lion (asked for 7500)
• Civic Local Foundation,
• Looking Out Foundation,
• Louise Oriele Burevitch Endowment (asked for 50K over two years),
• NC Food Council,
• Phil Van Every Foundation

Topic 7: Future updates

• We need a sustainment plan to include:

• Someone to have access to all our things and ability to keep things running should I be incapacitated or no longer available.

• Suggestions welcome. I’ve compiled a list of all our passwords and added Shayna as an editor to our Facebook page in the short term.

• Board terms.

• Indefinitely? One year? Two years?

• GOAL: Kick start healthy cooking education in 2025

• Pick one recipe per month from the cooperative extension’s cooking program to shop, prepare and enjoy on social media.
• Put 10 pre-shopped bags of this recipe in the shed each week of the month.

• Blessing Shed:

• By 2025 open five days a week 10 - 6 at City Harvest.
• By 2025 have a second Blessing Shed: Southwest Onslow.
• By 2026 have a third Blessing Shed: Chinquapin area.

Topic 8: Nonprofit vs Small business

Nonprofits and small businesses differ in several ways, including their purpose, ownership, and funding:

• Nonprofits are organized to promote a social cause or advocate for a particular standpoint, while small businesses are organized to generate profit. Nonprofits use any surplus money to benefit the community, while small businesses use it for the benefit of their owners and executives.
• Nonprofits are not owned by individuals and are instead led by a board of directors, trustees, or committee members. Small businesses, on the other hand, are defined as businesses that are organized for profit and meet the criteria in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 13 part 121 for their primary industry classification.
• Nonprofits typically receive funding from donations, grants, and sponsorships, while small businesses may receive funding from loans, investors, and revenue from sales

Topic 9: Building a Donor Community

• Regular Overflow update letters so folks can trust their money is being used as it's supposed to. The most recent one went out mid October.
• Free cell phone wallpaper quarterly if you donate $250
• One annual event for everyone to gather and hear about what we’ve accomplished and just enjoy time together.

• Annual Overflow anniversary gathering seems like a good time for this

Next meeting: Jan. 3, 10 am, Google meets but email update in November and December.