| ca fbla end-of-year mailer
The California FBLA Board of Directors mailed the following documents to chapters on May 26, 2009.
ca fbla seeks applicants for southern and gold coast director positions
The California FBLA Board of Directors will be accepting applications until June 1 for the positions of Southern Section Director and Gold Coast Section Director. Both positions have a starting date of July 1, 2009.
sb70 grant applications available to chapters
The Governor’s Career Technical Education Initiative (SB70) was recently approved to provide California Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) with financial resources to accomplish the following outcomes:
- Promote chapter growth, expand student membership, and improve chapter adviser leadership.
- Support new chapter growth at the Middle School Level.
- Increase the involvement of business and industry representatives in FBLA operations.
- Develop multi-media resources to support FBLA goals and objectives.
Your FBLA Chapter will receive a grant of $550 to support Outcome #1, identified in the above paragraph, if your adviser completes and submits the one-page application for funds. The following Information Memo explains the details. Completed applications must be forwarded by e-mail to: programcoordinator@cafbla.org by June 30 , 2009. (Downloads: Information Memo (Revised), Application Form, Sample Filled-In Application Form)
2009 leadership development institute dates/locations
- LDI North--October 23-25, 2009, Santa Clara Marriott
- LDI South--November 21-22, 2009, Irvine Hyatt
accessing perkins funds to fund fbla activities
The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), in conjunction with the career technical student organizations, has published a booklet which explains how advisers can tap into federal Perkins funds granted to their school districts. Check out this booklet soon and work with your principal to make sure that FBLA is written into the next Perkins application and plan for your District:
CTSO Guide for Accessing Federal Perkins Funds for the Support of Career Technical Student Organizations.
professional member recruitment how-to kit
The Professional Division has supplied us with a very useful recruitment kit. It includes sample letters, ideas for activities for recruitment, and ideas for activities to incorporate professional members into the life of the chapter. Check it out:
chapters--nominate an outstanding member each month for state recognition!
Each month, a chapter has the opportunity to recognize one of its outstanding members as a part of the California FBLA Member-of-the-Month recognition program. By the 10th of the month (the 20th of September for the summer months' report), just email the State President using the email address of mom@cafbla.org, the following information: the name of the outstanding member, the month of recognition, the school name, the adviser's name, and the complete school mailing address. |
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