Engagement at the Annual Meeting

Members proudly show their cards at the annual membership meeting on April 25.

On Monday, April 25, the SAG-AFTRA Michigan Local Board held our annual membership meeting at the Forgotten Harvest headquarters in Oak Park, Michigan. Forgotten Harvest is a perishable food rescue operation that delivers viable and healthy food throughout southeastern Michigan. 

The theme for this year’s meeting was Education, Outreach and Engagement. With a crowd of nearly 40 SAG-AFTRA members, the meeting was bursting with creative energy and helpful commentary. Members gathered together for the 5:45 p.m. registration time. Next up was the 6 p.m. dinner meeting, followed by a 7 p.m. community volunteer activity. The events concluded around 8 p.m.

Our special guest speaker was Rebecca Damon from New York City. Rebecca is the executive vice president of SAG-AFTRA, and is also a member of the President’s Task Force on Education, Outreach and Engagement. Several of the Local Board members, as well as the general membership, shared a healthy Q&A session with Rebecca regarding some of the topics that have come up recently for our union.

Executive Vice President Rebecca Damon joined members to pack food.

For our community volunteer activity, the event attendees helped to bag and prepare Cheese-Its that were to soon be delivered to a local soup kitchen or other similar organization. By the end of the evening, the membership had bagged over 800 pounds of usable food. Way to go!

The event was such a success that the Local Board is considering making the community volunteer activity a regular theme for future membership meetings.

Our thanks go out to all who participated and helped make this event such an enjoyable and memorable evening!

This item was originally featured in the June 2016 local newsletter.