Fellow NEW PATHS members,
Please allow me to introduce myself – I am Marshall Wilmot from Arizona and was elected President of the National Board at our 2021-2022 planning meeting. As I am writing this, the NEW PATHS national board has a lot of uncertainty about what our association will look like when the COVID-19 pandemic is over. The Public Health Emergency has had a profound impact on NEW PATHS. The conference held in August 2021 in St Louis drew less than 50 registrants which has had a big financial impact. This impact has the board embracing the future. For example, the National Board’s fall planning meeting was held virtually for the first time ever. We are also exploring ways to hold more of our conference virtually – for both attendees and presenters. Be looking for announcements of regional virtual trainings, quarterly TED Talk discussions, and other sessions to improve the professionalism of our members.
We are looking forward to our next National Training Conference in Charlotte NC, the Queen City. The NEW PATHS Chapters from Forsyth and Mecklenburg Counties and the NC State Chapters are excited we are coming to visit their state. The Conference Program Committee is hard at work to bring you many interesting sessions. The area of Charlotte in which the conference hotel is located has lots of good restaurants and shops for you to enjoy while you’re there. The hotel has already set up a special link for our attendees to make reservations (BOOKING LINK), so please make your reservations early.
Can I be blunt? If our 2022 conference is not well attended, we may not be able to have a 2023 National Training Conference (planned for Phoenix, Arizona). We took out a COVID-19 Small Business Administration (SBA) loan to keep paying our office manager this past year and we are now applying for forgiveness of that loan. The board has brainstormed different grants and fundraising ideas and we will be rolling those out during 2022. One thing you can do NOW is to add “NEW PATHS Education and Professional Development Foundation” as your Amazon Smiles charity. LINK Also, please encourage two or more of your coworkers to join NEW PATHS or to renew their membership.
Please help us keep our Professional Association going through these dark times. We appreciate your support.
Sincerely,
Marshall Wilmot
Please allow me to introduce myself – I am Marshall Wilmot from Arizona and was elected President of the National Board at our 2021-2022 planning meeting. As I am writing this, the NEW PATHS national board has a lot of uncertainty about what our association will look like when the COVID-19 pandemic is over. The Public Health Emergency has had a profound impact on NEW PATHS. The conference held in August 2021 in St Louis drew less than 50 registrants which has had a big financial impact. This impact has the board embracing the future. For example, the National Board’s fall planning meeting was held virtually for the first time ever. We are also exploring ways to hold more of our conference virtually – for both attendees and presenters. Be looking for announcements of regional virtual trainings, quarterly TED Talk discussions, and other sessions to improve the professionalism of our members.
We are looking forward to our next National Training Conference in Charlotte NC, the Queen City. The NEW PATHS Chapters from Forsyth and Mecklenburg Counties and the NC State Chapters are excited we are coming to visit their state. The Conference Program Committee is hard at work to bring you many interesting sessions. The area of Charlotte in which the conference hotel is located has lots of good restaurants and shops for you to enjoy while you’re there. The hotel has already set up a special link for our attendees to make reservations (BOOKING LINK), so please make your reservations early.
Can I be blunt? If our 2022 conference is not well attended, we may not be able to have a 2023 National Training Conference (planned for Phoenix, Arizona). We took out a COVID-19 Small Business Administration (SBA) loan to keep paying our office manager this past year and we are now applying for forgiveness of that loan. The board has brainstormed different grants and fundraising ideas and we will be rolling those out during 2022. One thing you can do NOW is to add “NEW PATHS Education and Professional Development Foundation” as your Amazon Smiles charity. LINK Also, please encourage two or more of your coworkers to join NEW PATHS or to renew their membership.
Please help us keep our Professional Association going through these dark times. We appreciate your support.
Sincerely,
Marshall Wilmot