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As an HI member, you have access to HI hostels around the world.  Join now at HI-USA Membership Online.  Then make your reservation at www.hiusa.org.  And you'll find, not just open doors, a safe sleep, and friendships with fellow travelers, but open windows into local community cultures.  The hostel will suggest the most interesting places to sample the food and experience the local ways of life...on a shoestring budget.  And lots of venues close to hostels offer discounts for hostellers.  Just show your card and ask! 
 

Friday-Saturday

November 19-20, 2011

Austin, Texas

 

Join us via computer no matter where you are!

HI-USA National Council Meeting

Live-Video Streaming from Austin, November 19-20

 

The National Organization is changing...some say transforming. Join NCM from your computer no matter where you're traveling!   From Blaine Franz, Director of Organizational Development, we've just learned that HI-USA will be live-video streaming some Friday morning workshops on Adventure Travel, five trends that are reshaping nonprofits and Saturday's plenary sessions. Submit questions online or by phone.  Archives will also be available after NCM.  Here's the agenda.  The connecting link?  Coming soon! 

 

At its 2009 National Council Meeting in Boston in November, HI-USA awarded a Certificate of Appreciation to the NC Council for hosting two successful 75th anniversary events.   Judye Adkins and Sandy Preston received the Certificate.  Julie Beck, at right, also received recognition as HI-NC's Volunteer of the Year.

 

The Houston Hostel is now #1 on the nationwide hostel development priority list and negotiations may result in a closing very soon.   A Miami hostel is #2 on the priority list.   Potomac Council is working hard on a Richmond, VA hostel.

HI-NC Annual Report
will be published in the NCM Briefing Book
but you can read it now!
 
HI-NC volunteer serving on National Task Force
 
Board President Mark Skender asked longtime HI-NC volunteer, Lynn Wilson, to fill a recently-vacated spot on HI-USA's Optimum Organizational Structure Task Force.  HI-USA intranet users are following the Task Force's work there. 
 
Anyone read Wikinomics?  Another reading assignment for the group is "Convergence:  How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Factor".  They don't even mention the drive to sustainability.  Is sustainability an important motive for re-shaping our organization?  Lynn asks.  Send your ideas and visions to wilsonls@esinc.net right away! 

 

 

International Federation
 
You'll be on your way in a hot minute after you check out this website with info on skiing in Les Arcs and Serre Chevalier, and new hostels San Pedro de Atacama and Espinosa de los Montanas...Hostelling Internationally!