Educate:

Advance knowledge and expertise that bring the transformative power of architecture to the built environment.

• Youth Scholarships — Hellmann, Erskine, Licata cultivate applicants
• Career Fairs — Washoe County, Carson City, Incline, K-12
• TMCC Support — Open House Speakers Bureau – How can TMCC draw speakers and assistance from outside Reno?
• TMCC BArch Program Advocacy
• Kreg’s position will be open at TMCC
• Job Shadowing, Mentoring/Intern Program, Portfolio Review, Studio Critiques, Part Time Instruction at TMCC, High School Outreach, Architects in the Classroom, Black Rock Design, AIAS/AIA Joint Involvement/Student Design Build Project, Urban Redesign
• Alumni Assoc. engagement
• Government engagement support
• Architecture Week (April)

Advocate:

Advocate for the Profession by championing the architect’s role in designing a better community.

• Communicate what architects do, and the value of AIA membership
• Government — establish relationships with regional planners, citizen architects, outreach/educate community stakeholders, foster relationships, invite Council Members to events
• Housing — Member watchdogs to cities/counties, Affordable Housing Specialists in the membership (is a specialties directory allowed by national by-laws)
• Sustainability — USGBC, Allied Professionals, Climate Action
• Client Education — Identify audience (Government)
  Social Justice and Equity — Create a committee and tear down barriers if any. Page on the website?
• Historic Preservation
• WMR Dissolution Impacts

Engage:

Elevate public awareness of the value of architects and architecture to our community.

• Go back to basics
• Increase member engagement
• Quarterly luncheons use time for board sharing and CEU’s
• Build relationships with Allied and Allied Professional — Attendance, communication needs of architects to Allieds, committee engagement, technical resource to member architects
• Freely give out our Strategic Plan at events
• Pandemic/Economic support to members
• Lecture Series — Black Rock, Brain Food Series TMCC, what are members outreach for topics?
• Small Firm Exchange
• Networking — Parties, sports, meetings, EDAWN, NCET, YoDeNG
• Board and event outreach — email, Mailchimp
• Yearly publication
• Professional Resources — ARE Library, Document Bank
• Annual Golf Tournament
• CANstruction
• Awards — encourage applicants, revise the jury process and potential jurors
• Dues structures

Committees:

The teams that implement the strategic plan.

• Education Committee — Educating our future and keeping us up to date
• Membership Committee — Finding out what matters to you
• Sustainability — Keeping out environment clean and building a better future
• Advocacy — Being your voice in the community
• Publication — Spreading the word on what we do
• Events — Keeping us on par for social events