Gold Coast Future Business Leaders of America

The Southern Section of CA FBLA and USC PBL have organized a campus tour of the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business.  The event is on Saturday November 22 and starts at 9AM.

The University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business is among the most prestigious in the nation. As an FBLA member, you have the exclusive opportunity to gain full access to this storied university:
   
¸ Breakfast in a cafeteria (provided)
¸ Campus tour led by Marshall Student Ambassadors
¸ Inside talk: your questions answered by student panels!

If you are considering USC, this is your chance to get perspectives the admissions officers can't offer. This event is free for all FBLA members! Dress is business casual (no jeans); parking is available on campus and at the Radisson for $8.  Space is limited; first come, first serve.

How to Register:

The attached registration form should be filled out by each chapter and emailed to southerndirector@cafbla.org no later than November 4, 2008.

USC REGISTRATION FORM.doc

Hello Advisers:

Remember, two Gold Seal Chapter Award of Merit requirements are:

    1) paid state and national dues for a minimum of five members by October 20, and

    2) paid section dues by October 20.

To register your members, log on to the FBLA-PBL home page at www.fbla-pbl.org.  Look at the links on the left-hand side of the page and click on Membership.  Then click on Register Now.  You will need to know your chapter number and the password which is "service."  Just read and follow the directions. 

An invoice needs to be printed at the conclusion of your registration session.  Mail the invoice with a check or money order payable to FBLA-PBL.  Section dues are $25 and are added on the first printed invoice.  California members pay $11 ($6 National and $5 State).

Let's see if we can't all register at least five members and pay their dues and the section dues by October 20!!

P.S.  If you need further help, e-mail or telephone me at (949) 551-FBLA or (530) 347-1728.

Judy Nunes
Program Coordinator
California Future Business Leaders of America

October 10 - Send in your Member of the Month (MOM) to mom@cafbla.org along with your adviser's name, school address, and the MOM's name

October 10 - Fill out and send the Progress of Work (POW) form to Mr. Gray at goldcoastdirector@cafbla.org

You can find the POW form here: http://www.cafbla.org/Library%20Documents/2008-2009%20Beginning%20of%20the%20Year%20Mailer/2008-2009%20BAA%20POW%20Progress%20Form%20(revised)--Final.doc

October 20 - If your chapter wants to complete and achieve the Gold Seal Award of Merit, the chapter must paid national and state dues of a minimum of 5 members. (List of required Gold Seal tasks on POW form)

Hello Gold Coast Section Advisers:

The new e-mail address for submitting your monthly outstanding member (Member-of-the-Month) is mom@cafbla.org.  Please make sure you e-mail the State President by the 10th of the month, use the new e-mail address, and include the following information:
        Name of the outstanding member
        Month of recognition
        School name
        Adviser's name
        Complete school mailing address

Let's make September an outstanding month and have all 37 Gold Coast Section Chapters submit a Member-of-the-Month!!

P.S.  I've also attached the revised BAA POW Progress form.

2nd revised 2008-2009 baa pow progress form.doc

Judy Nunes
Program Coordinator
California Future Business Leaders of America

Today is the deadline for the Leadership Development Institute (LDI) room reservations and for general (on-time) conference registration.   All room reservations, including for those chapters registering late, must be made, by phone, by 5PM with no exceptions.  Check the LDI-South registration packet for more  information.

The packet is available on the front page of the California FBLA website: www.cafbla.org under "LDI South -- Registration Packet."

Member of the Month is a California FBLA awards program that recognizes each chapter's most active member for a particular month.  Each chapter can create their own criteria for choosing the most active member.

For those chapters that are sending in Members of the Month to State President Amanda Nguyen on the tenth of each month, please send the member's name, the adviser's name, and school address to mom@cafbla.org, NOT president@cafbla.org.  This is a new change on cafbla.org.

If a chapter participates in the Member of the Month program at least one month, the chapter has completed one of the tasks on the Progress of Work (POW) Form, helping them achieve a Chapter Achievement Award.

Thanks to all the chapters who attended our 2008 Officers' and Advisers' Training Day!  It was a great morning at Exposition Park and I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as the Gold Coast Section Team. 

If you have any awesome photos of today's event, forward them to me at goldcoastdirector@cafbla.org.  We'd like to use them here on the blog and maybe even feature them in "The Gold Post" newsletter in The Californian.

Special thanks goes out to Mrs. Wong who lead our Adviser training session, Mrs. La Croix for helping make all those copies, Eric To (fmr. Gold Coast President) for coming out to visit and help out, all the advisers who helped hand out lunches, and to the many other people who made today's event a success.   I can't wait until we all meet up again at the Leadership Development Institute (LDI).   Until then, keep checking the blog for more updates!  -Matt Gray

*updated* Hey Gold Coast-- It's my fourth year as Section Director and I've never seen so many emails from local high schools about starting FBLA chapters.  This is awesome! We have at least 10 schools that are in the final stages of becoming fully activated and many, many more teachers and students that are bringing together their resources to start chapters.

To all these new chapters, congratulations and welcome to Gold Coast!

For all those established chapters out there, we need "Chapter Siblings" for these new groups.  Adopt-a-Chapter is an official California FBLA State Project.   This is an easy way to get honored at the State Conference (ribbons/certificates), earn points toward the elite "Gold Seal" status for your chapter, and most importantly make a huge impact in FBLA.

Chapters throughout Gold Coast are eligible to participate in the Adopt-a-Chapter program.  We have a special need for help in the South Bay (Torrance) and the west San Fernando Valley / Conejo Valley areas. 

Follow this link (updated) for more information about adopting a chapter.  Email me (goldcoastdirector@cafbla.org) to volunteer today!   -Matt Gray

Information regarding the upcoming Leadership Development Institute is now available online on the front page of the California FBLA website: www.cafbla.org. There you'll find the "registration packet," "registration summary form," and "registration form."

The conference is October 25 & 26 at the Hyatt Regency Irvine.  Registration deadline is October 6, 2008.

We just built a Gold Coast FAQ page. As with all our pages, this is a work-in-progress. Email questions to goldcoastdirector@cafbla.org.