Lincoln Young Professionals Group / August Consent Agenda

Marketing Committee
The next Marketing Committee meeting is Thursday, August 5.  They did not meet in July.  The email for Coopetition went out last week and the online registration form and website was updated.  A Coopetition reminder will be sent later this week. We are working on a Netperking email to get out this week.  The committee will also be designing a save the date card template for Netperkings.   

Education Committee
Wisdometry Mentoring Program
Participants - 6 mentors and 6 mentees applied for the program.As soon as the kick-off event location is secured the Wisdometry committee will be in contact with the matches to provide them with the necessary details of the program.Each match has a specific committee member assigned to them as their contact throughout the program to ensure success from mentor/mentees and to gain info to improve the program.

Wisdometry Calendar:

September - Kickoff event first week in September at Venue at 4pm. Still working on confirming location and obtaining Dan Sedor from Leadership Resources as the speaker to speak on leadership qualities and provide inspiration for a successful mentee/mentor experience.

November – Committee follow-up with participants

December - Event

January 15 – Application deadline for second round of the program

April - Event

April – Committee follow-up with participants

July – Event

July – Program review/survey

July 15, 2011 – Deadline for the second year YPG to YPG Wisdometry Program

July 15, 2011 – Deadline for the first year YPG to Non-YPG (40 and up with 20 + years of profession experience) Wisdometry Program

Event Topic Ideas – work/life balance, staying motivated, climbing up the corporate ladder, positioning yourself for the position you want, getting you and your company involved with your community

Action Items – the committee is looking for articles/videos/etc that we can share with the program participants to enhance the educational piece of this program. If the council has anything please forward to us.

Education Committee Calendar:

October - Researching possible event for October with LES. Event would consist of a tour of the Power Generation Facility, learn what LES is doing in terms of clean energy, efficiency and resource conservation. The facility is in northeast Lincoln (just north of the two wind turbines).  Time and format are currently being researched.

 February 2011 – Future Education Event -  Topics being researched.

April 2011 – Annual Event – Speaker being researched.

Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Committee hosted a July event with Dave Hall of Restore a Muscle Car.  They will be meeting the first week of August to plan for the remainder of the year.

Political Voice
The PVC took the month of July off.  Our next meeting is an “in lieu of” meeting on August 19^th, the Legislative Summit at the SAC Museum.  We are scheduled now to have a Joe Kelly/Rick Boucher “I’d like to Have a Beer With’em” event on Tuesday, August 31^st.   We also are planning on having the same type of event with Governor Heineman at Marz Bar on Sept. 30.  Both events will be YPG wide events, and we’ll work with Marketing to get copy written and on the web. 

Netquirking Committee
July Event Recap - Lincoln Saltdogs– Great event with low attendance but understandable in July.  Some kids did come with the family even though they did leave to go to inflatables.  July is a tough month, a lot of families going on vacation. 
2010 Netquirking Events                  
August 5^th: No Netquirking event, July joint BAH event took the place
September 2^nd: Toast at Fallbrook. 
October 14^th: Sportscasters (Please Note Date Change) 
November 4^th: Sheldon Art Gallery

Netperking - Will begin having coffee’s the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. at traveling locations. The first coffee will be in August 18^th at the Sheldon Art Museum. Tentative after that are as followed:

September 15^th: Memorial Stadium

October 20^th: Nebraska Wesleyan Murder House Tour

November:  Matt Talbot’s Kitchen

December 15^th:  Indigo Bridge

January 2011: Looking into opportunities at Lincoln Airport

January 2011: WRK Haymarket Vision

Next Committee Meeting Date –Monday, August 9^th, 11:30 a.m. at Sportscasters

Philanthropy / 2010 Special Olympics
The philanthropy committee is finalizing plans for Coopetition on Aug 14. We are again challenging other committees and companies to form teams of volunteers. This time, we’ll be handing out backpacks to children at Center for People in Need. Our next project will be deciding on a nonprofit to support for our annual holiday fundraiser.