Hello AzAADE members,
Are you interested in serving on our board in 2018? Expand your reach while making great connections!
Below is a brief description of each position on our board. Please feel free to reach out to any of our current board members for more details. In terms of commitment we meet virtually every other month for 1-2 hours with 1 in-person meeting during the year. Board members also assist with planning/coordinating our Annual Meeting.
Chair / Chair Elect:
- Lead the team; call for and preside at meetings
- Clarify the goals & roles for all leaders
- Steer the state overall to meet the members’ needs
- Serve as point person for correspondence from national office and share as appropriate with team and LNG leaders
- Represent the state to the Member Affiliates Council (MAC)
- Ensure national has updated list of new chair and admin
Technology Leader:
- Serve as Web Administrator, the “go to” person for the state network page online
- Keep front page updated & fresh
- Post items to calendar
- Oversee group announcements
- Serve as contact for LNGs to assist in developing their sections (calendar, discussions, etc.)
- Coordinate communication for state-wide events
- Works with the CB to ensure that ongoing activities and events, discussions & the like are captured on the state’s online community
Education Leader:
- Focus on building educational opportunities throughout the state largely by facilitating the activities of the LNG
- Reach out to LNGs to gather ideas and identify places to collaborate on events, replicate events across the state
- Encourage LNGs to have events
- Plan and execute (with team) state-wide events
- Be resource for LNGs
State Grassroots Coordinator
- Receive and communicate to state leaders and members the information regarding AADE legislative initiatives
- Serve as the Advocacy expert in their state*
- Coordinate “calls to action” on national and statewide legislative and reimbursement issues
- Identify and establish relationships with local state legislators and congressional representatives to acquaint them with the role of the diabetes educator as an essential member of the healthcare team and AADE’s legislative agenda.
- Work with the AADE Advocacy team on issues regarding reimbursement for diabetes education and protection of the profession and patient
- Coordinate state convening or participation in a local or regional diabetes coalition of associations sharing mutual legislative and public policy interests.
Membership Leader:
- Focus on building membership within the state
- Review new member report and may choose to contact the member
- Actively encourage formation of new LNGs
- Work to see that AADE membership messages and materials are present at all events around the state
- Be point person for questions about membership
- Use public state network page to reach out to non-members
Finance Leader
- Prepare, in conjunction with the Coordinating Body and input from LNGs, overall program annual budget to assure resources are allocated appropriately; should be prepared by June 1
- Review monthly financial statements
- Prepare and submit as needed project requests for state-wide events
- Review and handle project requests made by LNGs
- Be the point person with national for getting financial reports, handling money requests, deposits, vendor payments, etc. within the state
Coordinating Body for 2017 (click name to email)
Chair: Virginia Boomershine
Finance Leader: Lynn Lanza
Technology Leader: Omar Contreras
Grassroots Coordinator: Katrina Dryer
Education Leader/LNG Chair: Grace Akoh-Arrey