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February 2015 Stay Ahead! The Connection is designed to your leadership journey? Now is your chance to serve NAWIC keep you informed with pertinent Association as a region director. Do you know another NAWIC member news. Read up on timely announcements and who would be a great leader? messages from the NAWIC Board, and learn The NAWIC office is seeking qualified members of NAWIC to about the outstanding activities our regions, submit for candidacy for region director for the new Southeast chapters and members are involved in! Region (2 and 3), the new South Central Region (5 and 7), the new Pacific Northwest Region (9 and 10) and also for ANNOUNCEMENTS the South Atlantic Region. If your chapter has one or more Get connected to what you need to know! prospective candidates for region director, please click here for more information and instructions. Deadlines are approaching WIC Week 2015 is Almost Here quickly, so submit your candidacy today. Get ready ladies. WIC Week 2015, March 1-7, is almost here. Nominate a Member Today for a NAWIC National It’s also your chance to celebrate NAWIC’s 60th Anniversary. Award Visit the WIC Week website for information about WIC Week, forms and to order the 2015 posters and pins. We have limited Each year, NAWIC awards three outstanding members one availability of both, so order today.The posters are two sided of its three national awards. The awards are the Lifetime again this year so you can use them for WIC Week and then Achievement Award, the Member of the Year Award and the turn them over and use the rest of the year. Future Leader of the Year Award. Nomination forms are now available online, so nominate a NAWIC colleague today. Simply Attend Your Region Forum 2015 log into the website at www.nawic.org. Then go to Member Center > Committees > Awards and download the forms. Your region’s Annual Forum is coming to a city near you this spring, and you will not want to miss all that your region has The Lifetime Achievement Award was established to recognize in store for you. Due to the upcoming region mergers, these outstanding efforts of a NAWIC member who has been actively involved throughout their NAWIC membership. A member is will be the last Forums for most regions. Annual Forums offer only eligible to win this award once. educational seminars, solutions for your business and career, networking and more. The Member of the Year Award was established to recognize outstanding efforts of a NAWIC member who has been actively And don’t forget the fun! Forums will be held all over the country, involved throughout the current NAWIC year. A member is only so don’t miss the opportunity to attend a NAWIC Forum near eligible to win this award once. you. Check out www.nawic.org/nawic/Region_Forums.asp for the 2015 Forum Preview Guide. The Future Leader of the Year Award was established to recognize outstanding efforts of a new NAWIC member who NAWIC Seeks NAWIC Region Director Candidates has been actively involved throughout their first two NAWIC years as of May 31 of the current year. A member is only Have you decided that now is the time to take the next step on eligible to win this award once. All nominations and required forms must be received by Dede Rent a Tabletop Display for Your Next Outreach Hughes at [email protected] by June 1, 2015. The winners Event of each award will be recognized at the NAWIC Awards Did you know that the NAWIC offi ce has 6-foot tabletop displays Gala, Saturday, Sept. 5, during the 2015 Annual Meeting and that you can rent for your chapter or region events? 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Get helpful tips and reminders • Small NAWIC Padfolio—regular price $10, sale price here! $5 • NAWIC Pen Gift Set (in box) —regular price $11, sale Chapter Presidents price $7 If you haven’t already, please contact members who have not • Etched NAWIC Key Chain—regular price $5.50, sale renewed. Divide the list among other offi cers, so they can help. price $4 Inform non-renewing members of upcoming events and how • NAWIC Collapsible Can Cooler—regular price $3, sale they can get involved. Encourage them to renew by explaining price $2 their value to the chapter and the value they receive by getting • NAWIC Wine Gift Bag (wine not included)—regular involved. Email the membership department at membership@ price $6, sale price $4.5 nawic.org to obtain a list of non-renewing members in your Hurry and get your NAWIC items while supplies last. Visit the chapter. NAWIC Store online at store.nawic.org. Chapter Treasurers If you haven’t already, please complete your chapter’s IRS Compliance Certifi cation Form and mail it to the NAWIC Offi ce. They were due to us Nov. 1. The NAWIC Office uses the phone. Most of us have had these for years, we love them, information provided on the IRS Compliance Form to report to and we can’t live without them. He wanted nothing to do with the IRS if your chapter must file an IRS 990 or 990T return for them, except that his job was requiring him to change from the the 2014 calendar year. The IRS requires the NAWIC Office to Motorola Razr Flip phone (no, I’m not kidding!) to an iPhone. report which chapters must file an IRS 990 or 990T. To avoid As we stood in the store to get the phone and the customer all chapters being audited by the IRS, it is pertinent we receive service representative tried desperately to figure out how to this form from each chapter. Note: Please do not send copies get his contacts from that type of phone to the new one, my of your tax return to the NAWIC Office. Your IRS 990 or 990T husband became more and more agitated. He finally walked are due to the IRS Feb. 15, 2015. out of the store to get some air, at which point the CSR said, “He doesn’t like change does he?” Ha, understatement of the Chapter Membership Chairs year! Well, to make a long story short, he now has his iPhone and realizes all the things it can do and how it makes his life so When a prospective member calls the NAWIC Office requesting much easier. Siri is now his best friend! The moral of my story local chapter information, we refer them to you by giving them is change can be a good thing making our lives easier and your name and phone number. When you field a call from a affording us more opportunities. prospect, be sure you have information to share with them about upcoming chapter events and available programs. As we all know, we have lots of changes coming up in our Regions on Oct. 1 and we’re all trying to wrap our heads Prospective members are looking for knowledge, education around this change and work through the hesitations and hard and networking opportunities.