| December 19, 2003 Register today for the Legislative & Leadership Conference . . .For the full agenda of the 2004 Legislative and Leadership Conference, click HERE. Registration materials are available HERE. Hurry -- registration fees increase on December 20! Registration is underway for CANYS' January conference, to be held the 20th and 21st in Albany. There’s something on the agenda for each staff person at your chamber, from membership to communications to government affairs … and everyone in between! Confirmed presenters include:
The conference committee has designed this condensed, 30-hour conference to provide you with a blast of invaluable programming, networking and lobbying that gets you back home to your chamber quickly, with the right tools to succeed! Register your chamber's staff members today! Membership data requested . . .If you haven't already returned Joan Testa's request for statistics on your chamber, please do so today! Chamber Development Services, Inc. is compiling information on dues structures, saturation rates, retention rates, and income sources, which will be compared to national data and presented in the workshop, "Growing Your Chamber" at the Legislative and Leadership Conference, January 20-21. In order to have complete data, please take a moment to complete the SURVEY and fax it to Joan at 800-584-0321, or e-mail the information to joan@chamberdevelopment.com. Chamber names, cities and executives will be kept confidential -- but Joan needs them to avoid duplication when compiling the results. Of interest to your members in agriculture . . .The New York Department of Agriculture and Markets has announced several programs to assist Food and Agricultural Producers in growing their sales. Northeast Buyer Mission: Buyers from 20 countries will visit Pennsylvania and New York in mid-January. The buyers have been pre-qualified by the Foreign Agricultural Service and In-Market Representatives. Each buyer represents a key distributor, retail or food service chain. They have provided a list of products they are interested in buying from US and Northeast Suppliers. One-on-one meetings will be scheduled in Harrisburg, PA on January 12, Philadelphia on January 14, and Manhattan on January 15. Participation fee for suppliers is $75. To register or for more information contact Kathryn Bamberger at the Department or Doug Resh at Food Export USA Northeast (215-829-9111) or visit www.foodexportusa.org. The MAP Branded Program is now accepting applications for export marketing expenses now through September, 2004. The program will reimburse up to half of qualified marketing expenses including trade show displays, brochures and catalogs, advertisements, and more. A list of approved domestic trade shows including the FMI and the NRA can be viewed at www.brandedprogram.org. For more information, please contact Kathryn Bamberger at the NY Dept. of Ag. & Markets (518-457-4383), or Suzanne Milshaw at Food Export USA Northeast (215-829-9111). Tell us about it . . .Congratulations to Charlie North, President of the Poughkeepsie Area Chamber of Commerce, who was recently awarded the Dale Carnegie Leadership Award for his strong leadership in supporting the Hudson Valley. Fewer than 20 people worldwide receive this award each year. Congratulations to Marsha Gordon, President/CEO of The Business Council of Westchester (formerly the Westchester Chamber of Commerce) who was recently honored with a Corporate Recognition Award from the Institute of Applied Human Dynamics, Inc. and St. Jude Habilitation Institute. It’s time to start thinking about submitting your entries to the 2003 ACE Awards! The Awards for Communications Excellence recognize those professionals who excel in the communications field while celebrating the importance of chamber communications. The American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) recognizes the following categories: Electronic Communications, Graphic Design, Publications, Reports/Special Publications, Strategic Programs and Writing. The winners in each category, along with the Best of Show award winner, will be recognized at the Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, August 10-15. For more details and a timeline for submitting your entries, go to http://www.acce.org/profdev/awards/ACE/default.asp. The deadline for the 2003 ACE program is March 1, 2004. Got a question you’d like to ask other CANYS members? Job opening in your chamber? Great idea you’d like to share? Send it to maggie.moree@bcnys.org. |
