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Meet our new National Associate Board!

by Rachel

Easter Seals inaugural National Associate Board with staff liaisons.

Last week the Easter Seals National Associate Board (NAB) held its inaugural meeting. The NAB is a group of young professionals and leaders from many different backgrounds. Each NAB member has made a personal financial commitment to Easter Seals’ work and will continue to fundraise through fun, social events and whatever creative tactics they dream up!

The idea for a National Associate Board came from an innovation initiative we worked on last year. Easter Seals Headquarters staff submitted more than 300 ideas. A team of staff innovation champions evaluated the ideas to determine whether we could make them come to life, and the National Associate Board was born!

When it came to forming the NAB, Easter Seals headquarters staff sorted through our personal contacts and asked ourselves, who do I know who’s a younger generation business leader or professional? Do they stand behind Easter Seals mission? Are they philanthropic? Have they demonstrated fundraising skills? We were honored to get representation from companies including U.S. Cellular, Accenture, CNA Insurance, Goldman, Sachs & Company, WGN-TV & CLTV, Franczek Radelet, McDonald’s Corporation, Namaste Charter School, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, American Dental Association and Graystone Consulting. I’m personally honored to serve as a staff liaison to an NAB member (shout out to Brad!) and have been part of a group working on the formation of the NAB for many months.

The highlight of last week’s meeting was going around the room and hearing about each person’s journey and how they came to know Easter Seals. Each person was looking for an opportunity to give back to their community and I was amazed at the number whose lives had been touch by someone with a disability. I got butterflies thinking that this meeting was the beginning of something wonderful!

This group is without a doubt going to do great things and make a huge footprint for Easter Seals in becoming visible to younger generations and more. Welcome to the Easter Seals family, NAB!


 

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  1. Steve M Says:

    August 27th, 2012 at 9:19 pm

    What an awesome group for such a great cause!