2023 Annual Report

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Monthly newsletter: Nicole Grillo has served as the newsletter editor for one year
now. She accepted the role with great enthusiasm, which you can see in each
newsletter. We asked what you want to see in the newsletters and we hope we have
been providing that. Members are opening the newsletters at an average rate of 79%
for 2022, as opposed to 69.1% for the year prior. Nicole currently resides in
California, and was associated with the AIWC Frankfurt.
Social Media: Jennifer Padfield has served as our social media coordinator for more
than a year. She does a fantastic job of keeping members informed of FAUSA
happenings via Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. She uses Canva to create our
Santa Fe Getaway images, and to create fun graphics for our social media outlets.
Jen currently resides in Florida, and was associated with AWC Berlin.
Website: Debbie Hastings has been our webmaster and guru for many years. Her
support as the new board gained understanding of our roles and the needed web
updates has been fantastic and much appreciated. Her knowledge of the inner
workings of the web is indispensable. Debbie shares her time in Scottsdale, AZ and
Maine. She was associated with CAWC - Chilterns American Women’s Club in
England.
Archives: Louise Greeley-Copley leads the archives team. She has been uploading
photos and minutes from previous years to archive them in a central location. Louise
currently resides in California, and was associated with American Women of Surrey
and American Women of the Eastern Province (AWEP) in Saudi Arabia.
Constant Contact is used to produce our monthly newsletters, as well as surveys,
polls, and announcements.
FAUSA has a corporate Zoom account that is used for board meetings, regional and
metro meetings, book clubs, virtual social events, club reunions, and more.
The FAUSA board continues to work with Google Workspace to maintain a
collaborative work space. Google Workspace allows the board to communicate
efficiently and securely while providing the ability to organize tasks by our role and/or
as a team.
Annual Report: I shadowed Jennifer Padfield in organizing the 2022 annual report.
Highlights: Jane Indreland Edited the 2021 Highlights magazine, and Rick Chizmadia
published the magazine in both virtual and printed format.
Although many locations have been dropping mandates regarding Covid-19 and
thereby allowing in-person meetings, FAUSA’s Zoom remains highly used. It has
been a great tool to communicate with our sisters and brothers across the globe both
locally and internationally.
FAUSA Presentations: (for FAWCO meetings)
Participated on FAWCO’s Public Relation and Media (PRM) team as the FAUSA
representative. Ellie Bandanes, a FAUSA member, is the team lead. The team
coordinates messaging and public relations within FAWCO, The FAWCO Foundation,
and FAUSA. Privacy and Security of our members is very important to the FAUSA
organization.
We are compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). This is
a requirement for FAUSA as we have members who live part-time in the EU, as well
as many contacts with organizations with a presence in the EU