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East Tennessee Leadership Chapter The National Management Association Developing the Leader in You! |
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East Tennessee Leadership Chapter
Purpose
The purpose of the Community Services Committee is to encourage leadership development through programs designed to provide opportunities to gain leadership for future leaders and to interface with the community in positive roles.
Objective
Develop an outreach program to promote leadership skills development among students. Promote community activities that emphasize the development of strong leaders for the year 2000 and beyond. Conduct community activities that will demonstrate a willingness to give back to the community in which we live and work.
Activities
The Community Services Committee will work with various local schools to provide needed equipment or materials to enhance the schools' abilities to provide students with marketable skills. The primary emphasis will be on a new initiative "Science in Schools." The tools used for this effort may be donations of funds to purchase needed equipment, coordinating the donation of equipment or supplies from vendors, other local organizations like ETLC NMA or local area companies. This initiative is being conducted in cooperation with various local non-profit organizations of the America's Promise. This is viewed as a long-term project to bring substantial quantities of science laboratory equipment into the schools. It is an ongoing effort focused on the younger grades to gain the most from the investment. Campbell County is the focus of the initial effort. Other counties will be brought into the initiative as the needs are identified.
Other activities will be undertaken to foster a continued positive interface between the local NMA chapter and the surrounding communities. These will include, but are not limited to activites such as
- trash clean-up/beautification of the chapters' adopted section of Highway 95,
- co-sponsoring the "Help the Great Smoky Mountains National Park" effort,
- supporting school children through the cooperation with America's Promise to assist in providing adequate school supplies to all children,
- and in cooperation with the Aid to Distressed Families of Anderson County to provide Christmas gifts for disadvantaged teens.