WFTDA Seeking Community Feedback on Potential Name Change
As the WFTDA continues to grow and evolve, so does the work of ensuring our organization reflects the community it serves. Over the coming winter, the Board of Directors will be engaging our membership in a broader organizational values and priorities initiative to better understand where our community is today and where we want to go together. This work will help inform future strategic planning, educational opportunities, programs, and organizational initiatives so they are grounded in the needs and values of our membership.
While that larger effort is still to come, one important conversation is already underway with the formation of a diverse ad hoc committee to develop, review, and implement for member vote a name for our organization that is more inclusive of our membership. The Name Change Committee has begun exploring whether our organization’s name continues to reflect who we are as a diverse and evolving community. This project represents an opportunity to consider how our name communicates our values and welcomes everyone who contributes to our sport.
We encourage everyone to participate in the on-going and future conversations that will help guide our organization into its next stages. In the spirit of living our “by our community, for our community” value, we welcome our broader community to share your ideas for the values that our community should embody and display in a new name, as well as ideas for potential new names.
Please visit the following forms to let us know any ideas you have for new names and values that should be considered in this conversation as we work to move our sport forward:
Both forms are set to close on July 31st.
WFTDA Member Leagues can participate further in this discussion via their representatives on the WFTDA Online Community [more info about the online community at resources.wftda.org/membership/wftda-online-community/].