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January 2008

The Professional Development Committee

• PYNL's Leadership Lunch Series are back for 2008! Please join us for a Leadership Lunch with Kevin Dow, Mid-Atlantic Community Affairs Manager for Wachovia Corporation. Kevin manages Wachovia's annual foundation budget of $9 million, strategically invested in hundreds of nonprofit organizations in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Northern Virginia. Kevin is passionate about community involvement, volunteerism, and diversity initiatives and serves on numerous community boards. In 2003, both the Philadelphia Tribune and the Philadelphia Business Journal recognized Kevin with their respective annual awards for persons under 40 to watch and in 2005, the Berean Institute recognized him as a Living American History Maker. In 2006, Leadership Philadelphia named him as one of the region's top "Connectors."
  
  PYNL's Leadership Lunch Series are informal brown bag lunches hosted by area nonprofit leaders. Space is limited, to RSVP and to learn more about this event, click here.
  
  
• Join Philadelphia's Young Nonprofit Leaders and Friends of Please Touch Museum on Thursday, February 21st at 4 p.m. for a Leadership Event with Nancy Kolb, President and CEO of Please Touch Museum. Get a Behind-the-Scenes hard-hat tour of Memorial Hall, Please Touch Museum's future home, and meet the museum's leader!
  
  This event is limited to 15 people. RSVP to pynl@pynl.org. You must be 18 years or older to attend. Attendees should dress warmly and wear flat, close-toed, comfortable shoes that you don't mind getting a little dirty. Hard hats will be provided.

The Professional Development Committee is looking for new committee members and we always welcome your ideas and suggestions for new programs and people you'd like to lunch with. For more information, please contact PYNL Internal President Michele Blazer at msblazer118@msn.com.

The Leadership Development Committee
The Leadership Development Committee has many new opportunities for nonprofit leadership this year!

** CALLING ALL NONPROFITS **
If you are a nonprofit organization, association, or board seeking passionate and energetic board members, we need you to contact us by March 1! Board Speed Dating is coming and a new Board Member could be in your future!
For more information contact LDC Co-Chair Denise Buczko @ dflynn23@comcast.net.

• Name Change Contest, we're starting 2008 with a Sweepstakes ... with a real Grand Prize ... PYNL's Emerging Leaders Board Training Program is getting a facelift!! One problem with the name "Emerging Leaders Board Training Program" is that the acronym ELBTP is almost as hard to remember as the whole name. The program needs something shorter and snappier, like PYNL (but that's taken).
  
  First one to produce the name we like best wins $25 gift card to Reading Terminal Market. The subject line must read "NEW NAME." Please email your suggestion(s) to Mitch @ mmalten@gmail.com, by Friday, February 15.
  
  
• The Emerging Leaders Board Training Program (soon to be renamed!) will present its THIRD SEASON this Fall. If you want to learn the ins and outs of nonprofit board service, then you have the responsibility to take our Board Training Workshops. 2008 Applications will be available soon.
  
  For more information contact LDC Co-Chair Karyntha Cadogan @ kcadogan@gmail.com for more details.

** CALLING ALL PYNL MEMBERS **
If you are looking to upgrade your resume, meet nonprofit go-getters, or guide Philadelphia leaders to the nonprofit board of their dreams, JOIN LDC!! This year we have an exciting program line-up, and we always need people like YOU to make it happen. To join contact LDC Co-Chairs Karyntha Cadogan, kcadogan@gmail.com and Denise Flynn Buczko, dflynn23@comcast.net

The Activities and Outreach Committee
The Leadership Development Committee has many new opportunities for nonprofit leadership this year!

• A Big Thank You! To everyone who attended and donated to the 6th Annual Holiday Toy Drive to benefit Project HOME and the Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia. The event, held at Fado Irish Pub at 15th & Locust Streets, was a complete success with over 50 people attending throughout the night and about 15 (very large) bags of toys being collected!
  
  Our toy drive event has been growing year by year and attended by members and non-members of PYNL – the event is open to anyone looking to spread a little holiday cheer. We look forward to an even bigger crowd in December of '08 as we help to bring some holiday joy to children and families in need. Again, PYNL wants to thank everyone who joined us, everyone who sent in their toy donations and give a special thanks to the great people at Fado for donating the toys to us again this year – Kudos! We also like to give another special thank you to Jennifer West (PYNL and member) and her friends, who for the a few years, have gathered at each other's homes to celebrate the holidays by collecting unwrapped toys with them to donate to PYNL – Way to go!

If you are interested in joining the Activities and Outreach Committee please contact Activities and Outreach Committee Chair Naomi Leapheart at naomi@matchstick.org.