January 2025

President’s Message

January seems to be a time of planning, evaluating, setting goals for the year ahead and deciding on what pathways to take to reach one’s goals. Our many groups and committees have been doing just that. As I have attended meetings and read reports it is easy to see we have so many groups of people withing our chapter on the same pathway: Investment and financial committees revising our monetary information, technology committee updating and teaching members how to access the information, bylaws being updated, fundraising committee planning our future events, Thrift Shop holding a focus group to look at leadership rolls, Philanthropic meetings with chairpersons to discuss success and changes for the future and the board of directors working to finetune everything.

As I thought about all the work happening one word came to mind, Collaboration, which is “a shared knowledge of skills and resources used to create something greater than one could do alone and work toward a common goal.”

You are an amazing group of skillful, knowledgeable people who have joined as a team with joint effort, working together in partnership to complete our mission of providing a positive starting point for students of Carlsbad, Oceanside and Vista for academic success.

Last year you volunteered 23,024 hours valued at $771,074!

I am looking forward to working with you in the New Year and getting to be part of your incredible visions for our future.

Cheryl McGlocklin
President

Posted: January 21, 2025