Fuerzas Unidas Progress Report
May-December 2022
By Vicky Estrada-Bustillo
Our Treasurer, Felice Garcia, has ensured that our organization remains in good financial standing, with up-to-date monthly financial reports and state campaign finance reports. Tracking our dues and contributions is an ongoing task. Christina Serna, our secretary has diligently worked to keep our membership list current, as well as summarizing meeting minutes for both our leadership and membership meetings. Our Vice-Chairs, Ben Salazar and Melissa Ontiveros, have worked to engage and support the regional representatives.
We have developed and distributed outreach materials (business and organizational cards), in both English and Spanish, that outline our mission statement and underlying objectives. A survey was created and sent to our membership to identify membership priority issues. We used this information to prioritize our activities and presenters for meetings.
Building our membership and improving communication within the caucus remains a priority. Various avenues to reach out to our membership were established including the monthly membership meetings, the monthly newsletter, website and facebook page, which we are updating over this holiday period.
In addition to our leadership, we are building a communications team that includes our Newsletter Editor Carlos Tenorio, Marketing specialist Lori Remillard, Website Manager Dennis Montoya, and Social Media Manager Valeria Ojeda-Avitia. Organizational outreach, based on highest priority issues identified by our membership, were initiated with various organizations as well as Democratic Party County Chairs.
Community outreach is also key to ensuring we inform and engage Hispanos throughout the state and identify and address community needs. We participated in the True Progress Real Promise community event in the South Valley of Albuquerque as well as the Sunland Park Community event. Our entire leadership team, especially our regional representatives, were active in addressing the number one issue for our membership: voter registration and Get Out the Vote efforts.
As we look to the future and our priorities for the next six months, we are
planning: Leadership Team strategic planning session; Activities that focus on priority issues identified by our membership; Outreach efforts that continue to build membership and increase the number of members involved in caucus activities; and Activities that reach out to our communities and identify and address community priority issues.
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