CFDC Board Meeting 6/25/26

AGENDA

June 25th, 2026

City of Menomonie Council Chambers – 800 Wilson Ave Menomonie, WI 54751

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I. 7:30am     Call to Order/Additions to Agenda 

II. 7:35am    Consent Agenda 

May 2026 Minutes
May 2026 Grants
May 2026 Donations

III. 7:35am    Executive Director Update 

** Meet Staff Member Chelsea Danner **
Every quarter a different staff member will attend a board meeting and share who they are and what they do.

  • Legacy stewardship and donor development: Continuing to steward legacy gift opportunities and deepen donor/fundholder relationships while maintaining strong current-year development activity. From April 1 through June 30, 2026, the Foundation received $1,059,489.56 in donations across 386 gifts from 245 donors.
  • Community leadership and data: Advancing the Community Indicators/Data Project as a potential tool for local decision-making, nonprofit support, donor education, and civic health. This includes research into local data sources, dashboard models, and ways the Foundation can support nonprofits, donors, and community leaders with better shared information.
  • Donor, nonprofit, and community relationships: Continuing to steward key relationships with donors, fundholders, nonprofits, committee members, and community partners. Examples are our recent donor tour and our impact reports, e.g Dr James M. Ulesich Memorial Scholarship Fund and Ellen Carlson’s Fund for the Boyceville Library.
  • Events and donor engagement: Continuing a busy season of donor and community engagement, including recent Flag Day activities, speaking at community gatherings, planning for a Legacy Lunch for legacy society members, and development of a co-hosted event with WMG focused on bringing philanthropy into focus for their clients.
  • Giving circle support and development: Supporting the Women’s Giving Circle through its current leadership transition and strategic planning.
  • Grant data and reporting project: Continuing work on grant data cleanup and categorization to strengthen future reporting, improve internal consistency, and better communicate the Foundation’s grantmaking impact by program area and community need.

IV. 7.45am     Committee Reports

Executive – Brad Waznik

June 2026 Minutes

Investment – Brad Waznik

Finance – Dana Brunstrom

Events & Marketing – Kevin Noland

Jeans and Jewels Sponsorship Packet

Grants – Paul Horvath (Not in attendance)

Community Indicators/Data Project Overview – Bryce Borowicz

V. 8.15am Board Business

OLD BUSINESS

1st item every month will be a list and review of follow up items from the last meeting:

  1. Flag Day, CFDC event or not?  Estimated staff time?
  2. Meeting minutes – Liz, Stacy, AI, back-up plan?
  3. Agenda/Minutes format changes, feedback loop, posting on portal.
  4. Helping Executive Director “tell our story”, to more people. Board challenge.
  5. MHS Complex-was action confirmed by Joe Z from our last meeting?
  6. NDA, Privacy, Information handling, disclosures.
  7. Board Calendar 2026
  8. Re-organization of the board packet. Most current first, groups, date, and labels. More concise.
  9. Create an archive folder
  10. Hyperlink all documents

NEW BUSINESS

  1. AI Policy to adopt.
  2. Dianna Fiergola – J&J
  3. Women’s Giving Circle Liaison – importance, relationship management, meeting with leadership from both CFDC and WGC.
  4. Men’s Giving Circle-great initial start (DF,JH,BW) initial phase of development
  5. Board Expectations – Basics Revisited BW/GT/ BB
  6. Staff Expectations – Clear, concise, measurable, communicated and impactful
  7. Process and Procedure – start at the beginning (KN,BW, GT, CD)
  8. Fund Development Re-ignite the process and committee
  9. Board cycle 1st 90 days
  10. Health Insurance for ED, Staff? 2027 to 2030.
  11. Emergency/Urgent text chain for BOD and Staff?
  12. Board of Director Grid

9am     Adjourn

News, Resources, & Happenings

Check out our Facebook Feed if you haven’t for a while – it’s full of wonderful news! https://www.facebook.com/cfdunncounty

2026 Events Calendar – Put these in your date book!

2026 Board Member Listing – please email or call Amber with changes at alenz@cfdunncounty.org and 715-232-8019.

Take a look at our Jeans and Jewels website as well as our August Grant Cycle.