From The President
 

Dear colleagues,

It has been my pleasure and privilege to serve as the president of EACUBO this past year. In my last letter as president, I want to thank the many people that contributed to a successful year and give you a brief update of EACUBO initiatives since my last letter.

Many people were responsible for the various accomplishments during the past year. I want to extend my sincere gratitude to the many volunteers with whom I have had the privilege to work. As an all volunteer organization EACUBO is indebted to the Executive Committee members, Board members, Committee members, and other volunteers that put in countless hours in service to EACUBO and our membership. I also want to thank our sponsors and vendors for their financial support and our business partners for their efforts on EACUBO’s behalf.

A full annual report of all our association’s accomplishments during the past year will be posted on the web by the time of the Annual Meeting. I will highlight a few of the many achievements in the remainder of this letter.

Our professional development opportunities included very successful offerings at the Annual Workshop in Providence, RI; Senior Business Officer Roundtable, in Philadelphia; Administrative Management Institute, in Ithaca, NY; and numerous programs coordinated by our Area Program Committees. Working in partnership with the other regional associations and NACUBO the recently completed ACUBO competency survey, that identified key competencies and professional development needs of finance and business professionals will serve to strengthen our future professional development offerings.

I reported in my last letter that we devoted our two Board retreats to developing an updated strategic plan. The process validated our organization’s mission, vision and values, and established key goals in the areas of professional development; membership; partnerships; and association infrastructure. After some final editing and review, we are looking forward to sharing the updated strategic plan at our Annual Meeting in Boca Raton.

A task force led by John Palmucci led an effort to issue an RFP and evaluate responses to partner with a firm to handle many of the logistical and administrative tasks that can be outsourced by our association. The goal is to optimize the time of our volunteers. We want to protect our volunteers’ time from tasks that can be outsourced, and instead try to derive the greatest benefit from our volunteer resources by focusing their attention on programmatic content in their fields of expertise. The Board accepted a recommendation from the task force to partner with Association Resources out of Hartford Connecticut. We look forward to our future business partnership with Association Resources.

Again I want to repeat my thanks to many people for the accomplishments of the last year. I also owe a huge debt to the EACUBO executive committee for their great support in what has been a difficult and trying year for me personally and professionally. It has been my honor and pleasure to serve as your president this year. I look forward to seeing many of you at our Annual Meeting in Boca Raton.

— Don Aungst