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The Niagara Frontier Chapter is an independently-incorporated, nonprofit organization that is affiliated with ASTD. Our chapter is over 140 members strong and represents many different industries including but not limited to healthcare, manufacturing, retail, banking, insurance, sales & marketing, education, not-for-profits, as well as independent consultants, and students. This mix affords many opportunities for our members to network and collaborate on a variety of different projects. A good number of our members are also National ASTD members.

Call for Volunteers!

Various ASTD Niagara Frontier committees are looking for volunteers! Please support your chapter by volunteering to help with any of the following:

2010 ASTD Niagara Frontier Annual Awards Breakfast

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to assisting in venue selection, award nomination process, sponsorships, guest speaker selection, and event promotion. If you are interested in helping with the coordination of this program, please contact Frank Ciccia, Vice President of Chapter Services for our Chapter by email at chapterservices@astdniagara.org.

Membership Committee

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to greeting members and meetings, calling renewing members to welcome them, calling members with expiring or expired memberships to invite them back. If you are interested in volunteering for the Membership Committee, please contact Sue McMullen by email at membership@astdniagara.org.

Request for Proposals

The New York Leadership Educators Consortium is now accepting presentation proposals for its annual conference to be held Monday, June 14, 2010, at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. This year’s conference theme is “Leadership: The Good, the Bad, and Beyond.”

The conference will highlight different models, approaches, theories, and styles of positive leadership development as well as some of the negative consequences of poor leadership. Also to be explored is the future of leadership development training programs. Some possible session topics include: civic leadership, toxic leadership, industry leadership, training programs, and best practices. The conference attendees include faculty, staff, administrators, consultants, and others with an interest in student leadership development within higher education. The conference registration fee will be waived for presenters. No other honorarium is offered.

We invite you to submit a proposal to present a workshop or to facilitate a round table discussion. The attached proposal form is to be submitted no later than March 1 to malegre@niagara.edu. Please send this RFP to others you think may be interested in submitting a proposal.

Mitchell Alegre
Member of the NYLEC Conference Planning Committee