ALUMNI
Class XVIII Celebrates Graduation... "Woo Woo!"
How Can Alumni Stay Involved in the LMC Program?
First, please read our monthly E-newsletters! If you are not currently receiving monthly newsletters via email, please contact our Program Coordinator, Michael Shields, with your current email address. His email address is info@leadershipmonroecounty.org.
Also, PLEASE PAY YOUR ANNUAL ALUMNI DUES. (see the link on the Home Page) $50 gets you a very useful Alumni Directory (with the BEST connections in Monroe County!). Plus you will receive invitations (and often major discounts) to our festive socials, parties, and celebrations where you can not only keep in touch with old friends and classmates but also meet new class members and current, former, and future Monroe County leaders!
Also, you are invited to participate in leadership in three additional ways. The first is through sponsorships. Go to the "Sponsors" link to learn more. The second is through recruiting and socials. As alumni, we should always be on the look-out for new people that you think would bring something unique to LMC and... bring them to the recruiting socials at the end of June and beginning of July! The last is to join one of our committees (listed below) or become a member of our newly formed ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. All three areas of participation are ways to have direct impact and fun while contributing to the program and keeping in touch with fellow alums. Please contact Michael Shields, our Program Coordinator, if you are interested in sponsorship, working on any of the committees, or becoming a founding member of the ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Development Committee The Development Committee shall assist the staff in identifying and assessing potential sources of financial contributions, sponsorships and grants for LMC. They shall additionally work with staff in the solicitation of contributions from potential donors. (essentially fundraisers and fundraising ideas)
Alumni Relations Committee The Alumni Relations Committee shall be responsible for the engagement of the past, present and future Alumni after their graduation from Leadership Monroe County activities. The Committee shall be responsible for communication, education, training and mentoring. ( This is a way to become part of the planning committee to make our alumni socials more fun and succesful and to get graduates re-involved)
Positioning Committee The Positioning Committee shall be a subcommittee of the Alumni Relations Committee and shall be responsible for the visibility of our Alumni in the community and the establishment of a speaker’s bureau of Leadership Monroe County to the Keys Community.( This consists of media ie the website, facebook, newspaper, etc.)
Programming Committee The Programming Committee shall be responsible for the development and implementation of all pre-session, session and field assignments for the class year including all speakers and activities. (get to assist in making each session better)
Alumni Achievement
I would like to take this moment to thank everyone for your support and encouragement while I was attending Leadership Florida. Leadership Florida turned out to be the experience of a lifetime. I met so many wonderful people and learned so much about our great state. One thing I learned was that we are not the only ones that are having workforce issues. How would you like to be a cattleman, trying to hire an experienced cattle person? Requirements for the job: you must have at least three years experience working around cattle, you must have your own cattle dogs, (three to four), along with three cattle horses and of course you must have a pickup truck with a horse trailer. So as you can see, we don't have it so bad!
Leadership Florida is made up of five sessions that are spread out over 10 months. Each session is held in a different city and the class learns about the issues and problems that they face and how they plan to solve them. Some of the issues facing cities throughout our state are water shortages and the need to improve infrastructure. Freshwater is the major crisis; the fear of coastal cities is salt-water intrusion into freshwater wells. The League of Cities, and leaders from all across the State are working together to come up with solutions to these pressing issues.
I encourage each and every one of you, if you have an opportunity to attend Leadership Florida, to do so. Every session left me with the desire for more information about our great State. Leadership Florida challenges you to go back into your community and do more. I again want to thank all of you and I look forward to seeing all of you this year at one of our recruiting socials.