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NYSAPLS’ 2022 STRATEGIC RETREAT REPORT

By Amber Carpenter, Managing Director

NYSAPLS held a Strategic Planning
Retreat on May 12-14, 2022 at the
Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs, NY.
A total of 38 members came together
representing 13 Regionals and 10
Committees, along with our staff and
counsel in attendance.

The retreat kicked-off with an “ice
breaker” luncheon on Thursday, May
12th allowing everyone an opportunity to
learn a little more about each other. From
there, we held planning sessions Thursday
afternoon and all day Friday, followed by
a Board of Directors meeting on Saturday
morning. We didn’t skimp out on the fun,
however. On Thursday evening, we held a
game night and pizza party.

During the game night, several Survey Says! Family Feud
members were chosen to contestants “Team Dixon”
anxiously await their turn
participate as a contestant in our to take back control of
version of “family feud”. The the board.
contestants formed two teams,
the “Mason” family and the
“Dixon” family. You may recall, a
couple weeks ago we sent a poll Family Feud “Team Mason”
Family Feud “host” Greg to the members asking everyone (left to right): Ashley Metz,
de Bruin (middle) with to help us craft the answers to Keith Burley, Nicole Kalicicki,
contestants Keith Burley Dave Bardoun, Matthew
(left) and Bill Eggers (right) our questions. We were surprised Constance, Rob Snyder
by some of the answers... you
can find a copy of the tabulated answers on our website.
Congratulations to team “Dixon” on their win!
The planning sessions were facilitated by Susan Weinrich, Senior
Vice President of Nonprofit Capacity Building from the New Family Feud winners
“Team Dixon” (left to right):
York Council of Non-Profits (NYCON). Susan has over 25 years Brie Strom, Caegen Burnett,
of experience working with nonprofits as an advisor, teacher and Adam Hopkinson, Joshua Graf,
Bill Eggers, Ian Garland
consultant and has been at NYCON since 2003. In addition,
Susan was involved with NYSAPLS’ last two strategic plans
and has been instrumental in assisting the NYSAPLS Strategic
Planning Committee in our pre-planning and execution of our
strategic sessions.

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