Bi-Weekly Update: November 15, 2021

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November 15, 2021   Greetings WESTAF trustees and staff:   Some really significant advances in all corners of WESTAF World over the past few weeks! Look immediately below for some great news about a confirmed new partnership with The Wallace Foundation. This is a huge step forward for WESTAF and our RAO partners and we’re all extremely excited about this project! This week, we also responded to an RFP issued by the state of Washington—more on this below, as well. Fingers crossed! Also, check out Creative Vitality Suite’s new DataEd project—a really crisp and elegant way to make some complex…

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Bi-Weekly Update: November 1, 2021

By Board of Trustees Bi-Weekly Recap

November 1, 2021   Greetings WESTAF colleagues:   Feels funny to send you this biweekly after we have shared so much together this past week! So full of pride and gratitude for our WESTAF community — I hope you are, too. Thank you again to the many who played such an important role in making this past week such a huge success. For those who traveled to Denver, hope you made it home without too much of a hassle! Lots of good information is below in this (briefer than usual) biweekly, so thanks as well to all of our contributors!…

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Bi-Weekly Update: October 18, 2021

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October 18, 2021 Dear WESTAF Community: The first fortnight of our new fiscal year concluded this Friday with a fabulous virtual “Meet the SRI Team” confab that was both hilarious and informative! Thank you, Anika, Ashanti and Jade Elyssa for the fun times, and we can’t wait to meet you in person in a few weeks! In other news, I’m so excited about the WESTAF Women’s Suffrage Mural. There’s more information about this project below, but check out this awesome PAA site that Lori Goldstein put together to map its progress. A reminder that this Wednesday, 10/20, is International Pronouns…

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Bi-Weekly Update: October 4, 2021

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October 4, 2021   Dear WESTAF community:   This is always a very busy time of the year. The last few weeks seem to have especially borne that out, so I am ecstatic to be coming to you from the early October of our newly minted fiscal year — FY22! Wow. Huge thanks to all of the WESTAFers who have been building budgets, plans, goals and OKRs on top of all of the regular work. First off, I wanted to extend hearty congratulations to our colleagues Kelly Ernst, promoted to CVSuite manager, and to Trevor McElhaney, who has the new…

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