Hello, 44net!
I'm thrilled to introduce y'all to ARDC employee #2: Chelsea Párraga! Chelsea comes from a family full of hams, as well as a background in both fundraising and grantmaking - most recently at History Colorado. In addition to being well-versed in all things grantmaking, she also loves learning and has even done some experimenting with a Raspberry Pi.
She's been with us for a couple of weeks now and has definitely hit the ground running!
If you have any questions related to grantmaking, feel free to give her a buzz at giving@ampr.org.
It feels wonderful to start growing the team. Please give her a warm welcome!
Many thanks and 73, Rosy
On Tue, 18 May 2021, Rosy Wolfe via 44Net wrote:
I'm thrilled to introduce y'all to ARDC employee #2: Chelsea Párraga!
Congratulations!
with us for a couple of weeks now
Which brings us to that elephant in the room. On:
https://www.ampr.org/about/who-we-are/
one role ... a primary point of contact ... now has no callsign.
Perhaps it could be made a strong recommendataion (again?) that hirings are conditional (or not announced) until an exam pass can be reported. We can read that there is a family of amateur radio support available, but then there's some words missing.
Various organisations, like the MIT Radio Society, hold regular (remote) exams at the moment because of Corona (eg. 1 exam today, 2 exam dates next week):
http://w1mx.mit.edu/ham-exams/
ARDC recently gave a grant to MIT Radio Society, but it's also missing from the list:
Something else is also missing: 2021-05-15 (last week) was the deadline for filing AMPR's charitable accounts. Was this done?
* * *
Once again, warm congraulations, and welcome to the AMPRNet, or ARDC, or 44net... a somewhat confusing arrangement of pieces to explain to others, so if a history lesson is helpful, some of it is collated on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
-Paul Sladen
It is a nice goal to have all ham for all the ardc position.
But I dont think it need to be mandatory for every position. Director general, Yup, in the GAC (grant advisory commity) totally, In the TAC (technical advisory commity) essential. But let be frank, do Chelsea NEED to be a ham, no, Should she become a ham, I am pretty sure she will just because of all the nice thing this activity can give.
If we would hire only ham at front we would limit our access to a lot of nice and competent person and it could potentialy hurt ARDC/ampr on the long and short run.
Chelsea Bring a nice expertise that was needed. I was not in the know of who had asked for the job, how many proposition and what was the ham status/experience of all of those porposal. But what I am sure of is that the main direction did choose the best proposal from all of them.
I do prefer to have a non ham doing a very good job for the group, than a ham that do an average job. ( not pointing the finger at anyone, it is a figure of speach)
And Paul, did you applied for the job? Do you know someone that could have applied? If so did you told that someone that the job was open? And that someone, is it a ham?
Pierre VE2PF
________________________________________ De : 44Net 44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com@mailman.ampr.org de la part de Paul Sladen via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org Envoyé : 19 mai 2021 08:24 À : Rosy Wolfe via 44Net Cc : Paul Sladen; AMPRNet/ARDC/44net Giving Objet : Re: [44net] Introducing Chelsea Párraga, our new Grants Manager
On Tue, 18 May 2021, Rosy Wolfe via 44Net wrote:
I'm thrilled to introduce y'all to ARDC employee #2: Chelsea Párraga!
Congratulations!
with us for a couple of weeks now
Which brings us to that elephant in the room. On:
https://www.ampr.org/about/who-we-are/
one role ... a primary point of contact ... now has no callsign.
Perhaps it could be made a strong recommendataion (again?) that hirings are conditional (or not announced) until an exam pass can be reported. We can read that there is a family of amateur radio support available, but then there's some words missing.
Various organisations, like the MIT Radio Society, hold regular (remote) exams at the moment because of Corona (eg. 1 exam today, 2 exam dates next week):
http://w1mx.mit.edu/ham-exams/
ARDC recently gave a grant to MIT Radio Society, but it's also missing from the list:
Something else is also missing: 2021-05-15 (last week) was the deadline for filing AMPR's charitable accounts. Was this done?
* * *
Once again, warm congraulations, and welcome to the AMPRNet, or ARDC, or 44net... a somewhat confusing arrangement of pieces to explain to others, so if a history lesson is helpful, some of it is collated on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
-Paul Sladen
_________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net@mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net
Hi all,
It's great to be joining the group!
Paul, it's true that I don't have my license yet, and I agree that it's an important part of working at ARDC. I'm three days into a seven day class and will be taking the exam soon. :)
My experience is in grant management, administration, and writing. I got my start at a national nonprofit in Chicago that gives out grants to small farmers. I now volunteer as a HFDK City Commissioner for Denver, where we give away over $10,000,000 in grants each year to make sure families with children have access to healthy food.
I've also worked on the other side of things as a grant writer, and last year wrote 25 grants for the History Colorado museum, winning them over 1.5 million for public education projects.
All of this is to say, I hope to combine my knowledge of grant management with this group's knowledge of amateur radio so that we can fund some really cool projects. My contact information is out now because if you want help putting together a proposal, or have questions about ARDC grants, I'm here to help now.
Warmly,
Chelsea
On 5/19/21 9:03 AM, pete M wrote:
It is a nice goal to have all ham for all the ardc position.
But I dont think it need to be mandatory for every position. Director general, Yup, in the GAC (grant advisory commity) totally, In the TAC (technical advisory commity) essential. But let be frank, do Chelsea NEED to be a ham, no, Should she become a ham, I am pretty sure she will just because of all the nice thing this activity can give.
If we would hire only ham at front we would limit our access to a lot of nice and competent person and it could potentialy hurt ARDC/ampr on the long and short run.
Chelsea Bring a nice expertise that was needed. I was not in the know of who had asked for the job, how many proposition and what was the ham status/experience of all of those porposal. But what I am sure of is that the main direction did choose the best proposal from all of them.
I do prefer to have a non ham doing a very good job for the group, than a ham that do an average job. ( not pointing the finger at anyone, it is a figure of speach)
And Paul, did you applied for the job? Do you know someone that could have applied? If so did you told that someone that the job was open? And that someone, is it a ham?
Pierre VE2PF
De : 44Net 44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com@mailman.ampr.org de la part de Paul Sladen via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org Envoyé : 19 mai 2021 08:24 À : Rosy Wolfe via 44Net Cc : Paul Sladen; AMPRNet/ARDC/44net Giving Objet : Re: [44net] Introducing Chelsea Párraga, our new Grants Manager
On Tue, 18 May 2021, Rosy Wolfe via 44Net wrote:
I'm thrilled to introduce y'all to ARDC employee #2: Chelsea Párraga!
Congratulations!
with us for a couple of weeks now
Which brings us to that elephant in the room. On:
https://www.ampr.org/about/who-we-are/
one role ... a primary point of contact ... now has no callsign.
Perhaps it could be made a strong recommendataion (again?) that hirings are conditional (or not announced) until an exam pass can be reported. We can read that there is a family of amateur radio support available, but then there's some words missing.
Various organisations, like the MIT Radio Society, hold regular (remote) exams at the moment because of Corona (eg. 1 exam today, 2 exam dates next week):
http://w1mx.mit.edu/ham-exams/
ARDC recently gave a grant to MIT Radio Society, but it's also missing from the list:
Something else is also missing: 2021-05-15 (last week) was the deadline for filing AMPR's charitable accounts. Was this done?
Once again, warm congraulations, and welcome to the AMPRNet, or ARDC, or 44net... a somewhat confusing arrangement of pieces to explain to others, so if a history lesson is helpful, some of it is collated on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
-Paul Sladen
44Net mailing list 44Net@mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net
Welcome Chelsea (again)
I am sure you will have some really interesting proposal for grants.
I really like the fact that you were into the education grants application before. It will give you a really good edge on those request.
And your the fact that you volunteer to help kids and family show that you already have a lot of the ham spirit in you!
Have a great time with us!
Pierre VE2PF
________________________________________ De : 44Net 44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com@mailman.ampr.org de la part de Chelsea Parraga via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org Envoyé : 19 mai 2021 13:08 À : 44net@mailman.ampr.org Cc : Chelsea Parraga Objet : Re: [44net] Introducing Chelsea Párraga, our new Grants Manager
Hi all,
It's great to be joining the group!
Paul, it's true that I don't have my license yet, and I agree that it's an important part of working at ARDC. I'm three days into a seven day class and will be taking the exam soon. :)
My experience is in grant management, administration, and writing. I got my start at a national nonprofit in Chicago that gives out grants to small farmers. I now volunteer as a HFDK City Commissioner for Denver, where we give away over $10,000,000 in grants each year to make sure families with children have access to healthy food.
I've also worked on the other side of things as a grant writer, and last year wrote 25 grants for the History Colorado museum, winning them over 1.5 million for public education projects.
All of this is to say, I hope to combine my knowledge of grant management with this group's knowledge of amateur radio so that we can fund some really cool projects. My contact information is out now because if you want help putting together a proposal, or have questions about ARDC grants, I'm here to help now.
Warmly,
Chelsea
On 5/19/21 9:03 AM, pete M wrote:
It is a nice goal to have all ham for all the ardc position.
But I dont think it need to be mandatory for every position. Director general, Yup, in the GAC (grant advisory commity) totally, In the TAC (technical advisory commity) essential. But let be frank, do Chelsea NEED to be a ham, no, Should she become a ham, I am pretty sure she will just because of all the nice thing this activity can give.
If we would hire only ham at front we would limit our access to a lot of nice and competent person and it could potentialy hurt ARDC/ampr on the long and short run.
Chelsea Bring a nice expertise that was needed. I was not in the know of who had asked for the job, how many proposition and what was the ham status/experience of all of those porposal. But what I am sure of is that the main direction did choose the best proposal from all of them.
I do prefer to have a non ham doing a very good job for the group, than a ham that do an average job. ( not pointing the finger at anyone, it is a figure of speach)
And Paul, did you applied for the job? Do you know someone that could have applied? If so did you told that someone that the job was open? And that someone, is it a ham?
Pierre VE2PF
De : 44Net 44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com@mailman.ampr.org de la part de Paul Sladen via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org Envoyé : 19 mai 2021 08:24 À : Rosy Wolfe via 44Net Cc : Paul Sladen; AMPRNet/ARDC/44net Giving Objet : Re: [44net] Introducing Chelsea Párraga, our new Grants Manager
On Tue, 18 May 2021, Rosy Wolfe via 44Net wrote:
I'm thrilled to introduce y'all to ARDC employee #2: Chelsea Párraga!
Congratulations!
with us for a couple of weeks now
Which brings us to that elephant in the room. On:
https://www.ampr.org/about/who-we-are/
one role ... a primary point of contact ... now has no callsign.
Perhaps it could be made a strong recommendataion (again?) that hirings are conditional (or not announced) until an exam pass can be reported. We can read that there is a family of amateur radio support available, but then there's some words missing.
Various organisations, like the MIT Radio Society, hold regular (remote) exams at the moment because of Corona (eg. 1 exam today, 2 exam dates next week):
http://w1mx.mit.edu/ham-exams/
ARDC recently gave a grant to MIT Radio Society, but it's also missing from the list:
Something else is also missing: 2021-05-15 (last week) was the deadline for filing AMPR's charitable accounts. Was this done?
Once again, warm congraulations, and welcome to the AMPRNet, or ARDC, or 44net... a somewhat confusing arrangement of pieces to explain to others, so if a history lesson is helpful, some of it is collated on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
-Paul Sladen
44Net mailing list 44Net@mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net
-- Chelsea Párraga Grants Manager C: 520-471-6903 Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) ampr.org
_________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net@mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net
Paul Sladen via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org writes:
Perhaps it could be made a strong recommendataion (again?) that hirings are conditional (or not announced) until an exam pass can be reported.
I really don't think it makes sense for a ham license to be a requirement for working at ARDC.
Yes, of course, we'll continue to strongly encourage anyone working with us who isn't licensed to consider acquiring one. But over time, it may be important to have skills and experiences on staff that are completely orthogonal to an interest in ham radio.
Something else is also missing: 2021-05-15 (last week) was the deadline for filing AMPR's charitable accounts. Was this done?
No. But, it's all "ok".
I'd hoped we'd be able to file ahead of the 2021-05-15 deadline this year, but the pandemic continues to complicate and slow things down. In particular, the decision by the IRS to push out the the personal tax return filing deadline from 15 April to 15 May this year apparently really messed up many accounting firm plans and schedules.
Our accountants filed for a deadline extension on our behalf, which is a pretty "normal" thing to do (we had one last year, too). Regardless, we're nearly done and expect "final" documents from them shortly which will then need to be reviewed, possibly tweaked, and approved by the board's audit committee before we can sign off and submit the various filings.
Stay tuned!
Bdale
-
Bdale Garbee -
Chelsea Parraga -
Paul Sladen -
pete M -
Rosy Wolfe