18 May
2021
18 May
'21
6:05 p.m.
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(a)ampr.org.
It feels wonderful to start growing the team. Please give her a warm
welcome!
Many thanks and 73,
Rosy
--
Rosy Wolfe - KJ7RYV
Executive Director
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
ampr.org
19 May
19 May
8:24 a.m.
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:
https://www.ampr.org/grants/
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
11:03 a.m.
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
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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:
https://www.ampr.org/grants/
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(a)mailman.ampr.org
https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net
1:08 p.m.
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
________________________________________
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Sladen via 44Net <44net(a)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:
--
Chelsea Párraga
Grants Manager
C: 520-471-6903
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
ampr.org
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:
https://www.ampr.org/grants/
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(a)mailman.ampr.org
https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net
2:41 p.m.
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
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Envoyé : 19 mai 2021 13:08
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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(a)mailman.ampr.org> de la part de Paul
Sladen via 44Net <44net(a)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:
--
Chelsea Párraga
Grants Manager
C: 520-471-6903
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
ampr.org
_________________________________________
44Net mailing list
44Net(a)mailman.ampr.org
https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net
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:
https://www.ampr.org/grants/
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(a)mailman.ampr.org
https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net 
2:52 p.m.
Paul Sladen via 44Net <44net(a)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
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