Emerging Leaders are young or young-at-heart professionals who join together across varying backgrounds and industries to create lasting change in our community. The Emerging Leaders’ mission is to engage members to make a difference in their community through hands-on volunteer opportunities while providing members with professional and personal development through innovative leadership trainings and inventive networking events.
We had 21 guests at the Emerging Leaders Career Development
Series: Effective Presentation Skills on Tuesday, January
24 at State Street. Our speaker, Jim Meuleners of State
Street, delivered a fantastic presentation and we’ve already
received some positive feedback. Guests were from a variety of
organizations, most of which we haven’t yet directly worked with
through Emerging Leaders, and new relationships and opportunities
were certainly formed. Our Emerging Leaders Liaison and UWCCR
Board Member Rick Young also stopped by to check out the program
in action.
More pictures are on facebook and program
information is can be found here. Please continue to help us spread
the word.
It’s hard to believe that I have been involved in some way with
United Way California Capital Region for the past three years
now. How time flies when you are having fun! Whether
it is Chairing or Co-Chairing State Street’s annual Giving
Campaign, coordinating my office’s always fun Toilet Paper Drive
or being sponsored for the Women in Philanthropy program, I feel
so blessed to be involved in such a great organization. By being
involved in all of these programs through United Way I have had
the chance to meet some amazing people.
There is a certain buzz in Sacramento right now. Perhaps it
is the start of the holiday season, or the excitement surrounding
our ever-expanding organizations and hip events around town. I
have to say, right now is a great time to be a young professional
in Sacramento. I was lucky enough to find out about the United
Way’s Emerging Leader’s Program last month by happenstance. I
joined the Emerging Leaders Program Steering Committee on a
crisp, fall night at Cafe Bernardo, where we talked about the
impressive leadership and community service efforts our peers are
engaging in over our dinner.
November 22, 2011Christine A. Roybal, Sacramento Habitat for Humanity
Anyone that knows me, knows that I love my job as the Director of
Volunteer Services for Sacramento Habitat for Humanity and I LOVE
to rant. So you can imagine my unbridled excitement when
Cole, our Sacramento United Way Go-to, asked if I would be
interested in writing a blog about my involvement in the United
Way Emerging Leaders program. I have a hearty sense of
humor- you have to when your job is managing over 3,000
volunteers a year! Sometimes, even with my 3 kids away at
college, I feel like the Momma Goose of Habitat running around,
wings a-fluttering, just trying to keep all our little geese on
track and on schedule. But all the ranting and the
fluttering are all worth it when our hard working little geese
and I get to hand the keys to the family for their newly
constructed home.
The Emerging Leaders Program Steering Committee shall be charged
with growing and expanding our membership, activities, goals and
projects related to United Way’s Community Impact projects
(Education, Income and Health).
Steering Committee Size
5-7 Emerging Leaders Program members with key areas of expertise.
Members at this time do not have specific functions; rather they
will take on projects on an as-need basis. This is open to change
as the steering committee sees fit!
On November 10, 2011 more than 90 guests enjoyed a mix of drinks, appetizers, networking and ballet at United Way’s Emerging Leaders Fall Event at Lounge ON20. Guests had the opportunity to get acquainted with United Way’s Emerging Leaders and other young professionals. The evening was complete with a sneak peak of “The Nutcracker” by Pamela Hayes Classical Ballet.
3. The longer the name of the organization, the more
important you sound.
Think about it! You know you have met that guy who works with the
“Fight to End World Hunger among Endangered Species and other
Species that may be Threatened due to Habitat Loss and Global
Warming.” What did you think of him? I bet you thought, “Wow, I
stopped listening to that title about five minutes ago but
darn does that guy sound important.” You can sound even more
important than that guy by contacting us about becoming even more
involved by joining the United Way California Capital Region’s
Emerging Leaders Program Steering Committee! It is really
hard to say!
Each year, several tons of trash are removed from the American
River Parkway. On Saturday, June 4th United Way’s Emerging
Leaders hosted a group of 25 volunteers from Emerging Leaders,
IBM and the American River Parkway Foundation to make a
difference in decreasing the amount of trash at Discovery Park in
Sacramento while having some fun and networking with like-minded
volunteers at the same time.
Emerging Leaders are invited to United Way’s Women in
Philanthropy Spring event! We will be collecting towel sets (one
bath towel, one hand towel and one wash cloth), new toiletry
items and new or gently used luggage and/or duffel bags for local
foster youth at this event. For the first time, members of United
Way’s Emerging Leaders program will also be donating and
attending the event.
Women in Philanthropy Spring Event
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
United Way’s offices
10389 Old Placerville Road
Sacramento, CA 95827
