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The Ronald McDonald House has been fortunate enough to be selected as a charity of choice for the Infiniti Challenge. Help secure the most votes and the Ronald McDonald House of Central Ohio will be awarded $100,000! 

Right now RMHC is trailing the “team up north” by a slim margin.  This is a micro volunteering opportunity and is very simple.  All you need to do is text CoachMatta (one word) to 90210 or visit  http://promo.espn.go.com/espn/contests/infiniti/2012/ and vote for Coach Matta.  It is that simple. 

Voting runs until Feb 27 and you can vote once a day if you would like. Thanks for voting!

In an effort to better understand the needs of our members, we are asking you to complete a brief personal profile. Your response is very important in helping us continue to enhance our organization and should take less than 10 minutes to complete!

Simply log into your YPC account with your email address and password. Click on the "View Profile" link in the upper right hand corner to get started.

At YPC, we strive to create personal, professional and community development opportunities within Columbus.

Please feel free to contact Becky Bibbo at Memmbership@YPColumbus.org with any questions. Thank you for your participation!

YPC is currently recruiting organized, ambitious and experienced young professionals to join one (or more!) of our committees.

Membership: Becky Bibbo (Membership@YPColumbus.org.)
Philanthropy: Chad Kernell (Philanthropy@YPColumbus.org.)

Professional Development: Dace de la Foret (Professional_Development@YPColumbus.org)

Contact one of our committee chairs and get involved today!

YPC is currently recruiting for a Membership Chair on the 2011-2012 Board of Directors. If you are looking to gain more experience with a non-profit organization, give back to the community, and meet new people this is the opportunity for you! The Membership Chair is charged with recruiting new members, enhancing the current member experience and taking on special projects. If you are interested in this position, please email Katie Murphy Hamilton at VP_Operations@ypcolumbus.org.

Congratulations to our newly elected YPC Board of Directors for 2011-2012:

Nick Newnham, President
Katie Murphy Hamilton, Vice President of Operations
Michelle Staffen, Vice President of Programming
Ilene Onieal, Treasurer
Dace de la Foret, Professional Development Committee Chair
Jandie Dieringer, Philanthropy Committee Chair
Tim Maly, Development Committee Chair*
Carl McCoy, Marketing & Communications Committee Chair*
Anne Swedberg, Membership Committee Chair
Nick Mears, At Large Board Member

*Newly elected member

Please reach out to any of the new board members and congratulate them on their new role!

Thanks to everyone who attended this year’s annual meeting. And special thanks to the Gateway Film Center for hosting this fantastic event.

Congratulations to Robbie Banks, YPC’s 2011 Distinguished Citizen Award

Robbie Banks, Young Professional Manager, Columbus Chamber, was recognized as the 2011 YPC Distinguished Citizen Award during the event. For more information, please click here.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 16, 2011 – Robbie Banks, Young Professionals Manager, Columbus Chamber, has been voted by the Young Professionals of Columbus (YPC) Board of Directors as the unanimous choice for this year's Distinguished Citizen Award.

YPC serves the Columbus community by connecting its members with the pulse of the city while developing and advancing the potential of its members. That’s why YPC is pleased to introduce the Distinguished Citizen Award to recognize the contributions of our vital community leaders.

The Distinguished Citizen Award is awarded annually by YPC to a person who has demonstrated extraordinary involvement in the community and inspires others to make Columbus a better place.  This can be any member of the central Ohio community: a neighbor, co-worker, friend, or business leader.

To say Robbie Banks has been a tremendous asset to the YP community in her four years of service as the Chamber’s YP manager would be putting her legacy lightly. She constantly goes above and beyond in her day job, committing her time and effort in a way no one else can. She is reliable in everything she does, thorough, friendly, knowledgeable, bright, intelligent, collaborative, and the perfect representative of YPs in Columbus.

She has successfully created a network of YPs and YP organizations and fostered a cooperative environment for all YP groups in Columbus. With all of these organizations working independently, it is monumental to create a certain level of continuity among them, resulting in productive partnerships and a better city for young professionals as a whole.

On top of it all, she lives and breathes Columbus unlike anyone else. And she has gone leaps and bounds to make it a better place to be.

The YPC Board is proud to recognize Robbie at the YPC annual meeting for her hard work and dedication on May 25, at 6 p.m. at the Gateway Film Center. The event is open to anyone who would like to attend.

We don't want to sound like we're bragging, but we will anyway: Heath Hughes (YPC board member) is being honored next month as one of Columbus Business First's Forty Under 40. This annual award recognizes the "up-and-comers to be watched for their business, professional and community contributions." (CBF) Despite some pretty tough competition (hundreds of nominations this year), Heath joins a group that includes past winners such as Mayor Michael Coleman, Andrea Cambern, Cameron Mitchell, Mary Jo Hudson, and other notable figures in our community. This is just another example of how YPC recruits only the top talent in Columbus to sit on its Board of Directors.

The award ceremony takes place on May 26th and a full spread about the winners will be published on May 27th. Please join us in congratulating Heath, and if you'd like more information, go to: http://www2.bizjournals.com/columbus/event/26431.

Follow in Heath’s footsteps and run for a board position in the upcoming elections at YPC’s Annual Meeting on May 25th!

Young Professionals of Columbus (YPC) has unveiled a new look and feel to the organization that better reflects its core mission of personal and professional development and civic engagement of its members.

YPC’s makeover includes a total refresh of YPColumbus.org as well as a new logo, giving the organization a recharged brand identity. All of this is aimed to better define YPC’s niche within the city’s fabric, and to further spread the organization’s message across the Columbus community.

Through research and member surveys, YPC's 15-person Board of Directors and its Marketing & Communications Committee assessed the organization's past brand and web presence. The resulting information helped YPC to develop a refreshed look that better communicates the organization's identity and further clarifies the ideals that differentiate YPC from other young professional organizations. These ideals are reflective of the organization at large and are depicted with the new logo and refreshed web-site:

• Connectivity: YPC is focused on fostering a strong, well-connected YP community in Columbus
  
• Professional Development: This is the hallmark of YPC
  
• Community: Civic involvement is critical to the YPC mission
  
• Conversation: YPC encourages open dialogue and represents the YP voice in Columbus
  
• Distinction: The mission of YPC is development, which is what differentiates it from other YP groups
  

New features of YPColumbus.org include:

• An updated home page prominently featuring upcoming events, member benefits and other activities
  
• Better online discussions through a news feed, event blog and feeds from Twitter directly to the site
  
• “Members-only” features such as an RSS feed of exclusive discounts and promotions, a job board and a directory of current YPC members
  

Nominations for the YPC Board of Directors are now being accepted. If you might be interested in nominating yourself or someone you know, please check out our election page, or contact Nick Newnham, at secretary@ypcolumbus.org. 

The YPC board is interested in increasing their membership renewal rate. The best way to do that is by making sure we are meeting the needs of our current members. In order to do that we have created a
short survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/239LCKD

Please take a few minutes to answer a couple questions about your YPC membership. Your feedback will help us better serve our membership and the YP community at large in the future.

Thank you for your time!