Minutes

1. Call to Order

The meeting started at 6 pm PST on December 3, 2024.

2. Roll Call
1. Attendees:

Alexander Abdulla

Patricia Burletoff

Chan Oh

Soyeon Kim (Recorder)

Vi Ly (Chair)

Quan Ngo (Jessica)
3. Approval of Agenda

The House approved the agenda.

4. New Business
1. Review on grant applications

Between July and August 2024, three grant applications had been submitted with the results below.

2. Roger Youth Grants ($10,000) - unaccepted
3. Level BIPOC Grants ($50,000/y) - waiting
4. BCIT ISSP (200h of work) - accepted

Also free or affordable access to several nonprofit tools has been granted including, Google, techsoup, Canva, slack, Asana, Notion, AWS.

The Chair will include a summary of grant application as part of this year’s main activities in the annual report for the BC Government. Separately, a financial statement needs to be submitted to CRA, which needs more information on external audit requirements.

b. Review on product development with BCIT

Since BCIT ISSP was accepted, a team consisting of Bang Dao (Tech Lead), Alex Abdulla (PM) and Vi Ly (PO and UI/UX designer) worked on an app product development. Work mainly consisted of three areas: (1) creating account and login for users; (2) Mood Journal where users can log daily moods using emojis or a simple scale; and (3) mini courses. The course was designed in a simple way . On December 5th, a product will be presented to the BCIT students

c. Finance

The Chair presented a summary of YTD financial statement.



d. 2025 Board of Directors

The Chair said that an email will be sent out to the Board of Directors for their interest in continuing to serve as a Board of Directors and the role they wish to be involved.

Chan Oh - Congratulated on lots of success since the last meeting. Also commented that marketing and sales aspect would be the next important consideration following product development and schools could be our good target audience.

The Chair responded that once the course is fully developed, a group of youth would be trained to design courses that are meaningful to them and their peers; cascading model of reaching large youth population.

Jessica - Asked how 200 hrs of work was calculated for BCIT ISSP.

The Chair responded that this was based on a paper record, but in real, the work involved more voluntary hours.

5. Set Meeting Dates

Early 2025 (TBC)

6. Adjournment

The meeting ended at 6:50 pm PST.