Annual Meeting Well Received!

Thirty-nine, or possibly more, people attended the May 16 Annual Meeting including 14 via Zoom!  Most were members, though as usual, non-members were also very welcome. We hope all enjoyed the program and the 2024 – 2025 brainstorm, pictured in the photo below.

NCRA Annual Meeting Brainstorm, 5/16/2024. Photo by Freddy Coronado.

Thank you to all that were involved in the planning – especially the Board Members – current and past, that led the meeting, worked to make the dinner, program and Green Drinks a success, plus the staff working behind the scenes.

Cheers to StopWaste for again being our host, and Angelina Vergara and Jeanine Sidran of StopWaste for collaborating with us!

The presentation was well received – it can be viewed at the end of this post.

Below, Bailey Hall, Co-Chair of the Zero Waste Advocacy Committee and Legislative lead presents with Gwynn Mackellen her co-organizer for the NCRA Goes To Sacramento Day.

NCRA Annual Meeting, ZWAC Leaders Bailey Hall and Gwynn Mackellen, 5/16/2024.
Photo by Freddy Coronado.

Volunteer with NCRA!: NCRA is mostly a volunteer group. Want to help out – for an afternoon or more? Some tasks are quick and easy, while others are complex with steep but satisfying learning curves. Committees usually meet monthly via Zoom. Each is detailed in depth in the presentation below and generally on the website. The meeting schedules are in each newsletter.

Save The Date: This meeting is held every May, generally on the third Thursday. An interesting, interactive event, it is where we start settings the course for the coming year. For some of us, it is as much fun as Recycling Update.

Questions welcome via the Contact Page.

Join us! NCRA & Zero Waste Youth Career Fair – 3/22 at 5:30pm

Zero Waste Youth USA and the Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA) would like to invite you to table at our upcoming career fair!
March 22nd, 5:30 – 7 PM PT, via Airmeet. 
If you have an employment, internship, volunteer opportunity to promote,  as well as tips and hacks for aspiring young professionals navigating the resource management and conservation field, we would love to have you!
Please fill out this tabling form and follow the confirmation page to WildApricot to finish registration. Let me know if you have any questions!

If you would like to join as a non-tabling participant please register with WildApricot. Late registrants should register and then go to Airmeet  to join the session.

 

Ten Steps To A Much Better Zoom Experience

BEFORE EVENT

___  Use an Ethernet cable/DSL instead of wifi
___  If possible, use a laptop or desktop computer
___  Download/Update Zoom Client for Meetings
___  Test your audio and video via a Zoom
___  Need help? Before 3/15, contact the Office with Zoom as the subject and we can arrange a test session.

BEFORE LOGGING ON

___  Exit all applications – including web browsers, and turn your computer off and on again
___  Limit the number of files and browsers open
___  Limit virtual backgrounds. Avoid animations.
___ To see the slides and a speaker simultaneously, select Speaker View versus Gallery.
___ Using multiple screens may make it hard for Zoom to display slides and a speaker simultaneously. It may have something to do with your account type. We don’t know the answer but hope someone will figure it out.
___  Having problems? Use the Private Chat function to contact the session or Zoom Manager.