September 20, 2021 Hello everyone! Happy, happy Monday. We’re moments away from the kickoff of the Creative Vitality Summit! I am so proud that WESTAF is hosting this and has attracted such super partners and panelists, and I hope you are, too! This is a busy week for many, so let’s just dive in: CREATIVE VITALITY SUMMIT OPENS TODAY – OVER 440 PEOPLE HAVE REGISTERED (DH) Thanks to Leah Horn, Samantha Ortega, Natalie Scherlong, Moana Palelei HoChing, Kelly Ernst, Justine Chapel, Natalie Villa, Ashanti McGee, Paul Barrow, and Brandon Jay, for all of your efforts on the Creative Vitality Summit….

September 7, 2021   Hello WESTAF community! Hoping that everyone reading this had a fun and restful holiday weekend! Before we dive into this biweekly update, I just wanted to offer huge thanks to trustee Susan Garbett, who has arranged for the WESTAF staff to attend a special friends-and-family preview of the new Meow Wolf experience in Denver — Convergence Station. Thanks Susan — we’re really looking forward to it! Let’s just jump right in: CREATIVE VITALITY SUMMIT REGISTRATIONS TOP 300 AND 40 SPEAKERS CONFIRMED (DH) As of 9/1, over 300 people had registered to participate in the Creative Vitality…

August 23, 2021 Greetings WESTAF community: It’s Sunday evening and I’m vanning back to Denver, having just emerged from the woods (glorious weekend camping near Cottonwood Lake in Colorado’s San Isabel National Forest). That adventure was the perfect end to this past week’s energizing and inspiring retreat with the leadership team in Colorado Springs. The retreat gave us much to process, and generated some potent ideas and concepts to bring into our upcoming RAO retreat, September BOT executive committee meeting and October staff and trustees meeting — more to come there. As we barrel towards the end of FY21 WESTAF…

August 9, 2021 Greetings WESTAF community: So much activity in all corners of the organization these past few weeks! A warm welcome to Ashanti McGee…the registration launch of WESTAF’s Creative Vitality Summit has already attracted over 120 registrants in just the early days of registration…the herculean launch of the new CaFE admin User Interface…panelists getting lined up for the ARP Fund for Organizations…a busy executive committee meeting…planning for several key in-person meetings happening in the coming months…settling in over at the Alliance Center…read on below for updates on those items and a whole lot of other important stuff, too! WESTAF…