BAY AREA COMMUNITY COUNCIL
MAY 2020 NEWSLETTER
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The Bay Area Community Council is the leading organization in engaging community leaders in understanding and shaping the future of the greater Green Bay area.
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President's Message,
Dave Wegge
The Coronavirus pandemic will bring significant changes to the future of the greater Green Bay area. As a community, it is important to be thinking now about the short and the long-term effects that are likely to transpire. The short-term impacts and our responses to them may set the stage for how we as a community address the long-term effects. The long-term effects will produce significant opportunities and raise challenges for our community.
Foresight as a strategy to discern plausible futures is impacted by trends, events and choices. The COVID pandemic captures all three of these critical elements of foresight. The pandemic is an event of epic proportions and has significant power in changing the direction and/or accelerating current trends. Two trends that appear to be accelerating and have long-term potential effects on the greater Green Bay area are:
- significant expansion of the remote workforce
- increasing numbers of individuals, especially the Millennial and Gen Z generations, deciding to move away from large urban centers to smaller urban areas
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BACC welcomes Larry Connors to Board of Directors
Larry Connors is a values-driven servant leader with 35 years of executive healthcare experience, including positions as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer. Larry is distinguished as a highly intuitive leader skilled at developing leaders and transforming organizational culture into results.
Larry currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Jackie Nitschke Center, an alcohol and rudg treatment provider in Green Bay. Its mission is to provide affordable, superior alcohol and drug treatment in a home-like environment to improve the quality of life for clients and their families. Larry also is an Instructor in the Donald J. Schneider School of Business and Economics at St. Norbert College.
Larry earned a Masters of Health Administration degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Arts,
magna cum laude (psychology) from the University of Buffalo. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is actively involved in community service, including Board member of St. John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter, Brown County Drug and Alcohol Task Force, and the University of Wisconsin Green Bay Social Work Program Advisory Committee. Larry and his wife Mary reside in Allouez and have three grown children.
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STANDING WITH EACH OTHER DURING
THE CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY
- Contribute to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Emergency Response Fund and encourage others to do so.
- Nonprofit organizations in Brown, Oconto, and Kewaunee counties impacted by the Coronavirus emergency may apply for grant funding from the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Emergency Response Fund.
- Donate wipes,masks, and sanitizer to the Green Bay Metro Fire Department so emergency responders can maintain a safe environment while serving extreme victims of this crisis.
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SUMMARY OF MAY 14, 2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
President Dave Wegge announced the resignation of Brian Danzinger from the Board of Directors, particularly noting his media savy to benefit the BACC.
The BACC approved the selection of Larry Connor to the Board, completing the term of Tom Hinz.
The Board received an update on the discovery stage of the BACC rebranding process. Communications Consultant Lynn Gerlach has led a series of 1:1 interviews and focus group meetings of key community stakeholders. Still to come are focus group meetings of existing Board members and an email survey to hundreds of BACC supporters. The purpose of the data gathering is to help the BACC determine the public's perception of the organization and the Board's articulation of the purpose and mission of the BACC.
The Board was also updated on the migration of its Website onto the WordPress platform and successful submission of a capacity building grant application to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation.
Lee Bouche reminded committee chairs to submit any revisions to their committee's 2020 plan so that the Executive Committee could review the entire BACC plan later this month.
Tania Erdmann, Senior Manager, Wipfli LLP, described how she has applied her BACC foresight analysis training. Last fall, she led a strategic planning retreat for the company; as a result of this retreat, Wipfli has applied many of the tools of foresight analysis across its departments.
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FAVORITE RESOURCES AND NEWS YOU CAN USE
Recent news stories, articles, books, videos, Websites or venues of interest to the BACC supporters and newsletter readers, recommend by the BACC staff and directors. Also community events of interest to the BACC supporters
Brown County United Way
Brown County United Way has developed the
COVID-19 Impact Survey for Brown County Residents.
Please share the following link with your networks and encourage your colleagues and clients to take the survey. The results will help BCUW and others determine effective response strategies as the pandemic progresses.
Foundations Health & Wholeness
Foundations invites nominations for its 13th annual
Ethics in Action Award. Nominate a personal local model of healthy human behavior, selflessness, and courage. Nomination deadline is May 31.
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All articles are free during the crisis.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
Leadership in Turbulent Times. 2019.
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