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September 5, 2019
Volume 1, Issue 2
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In
This Issue
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- Chapter Support Grants
- Financial Literacy Grants
- Registering Members
- Calendar/Upcoming Dates
- . . . and much more!
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How Many Students Can You Fit Into an FBLA Chapter Meeting?
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Do you know how many students
you
can fit in your chapter meeting? That was the question Central Section Director and Redwood Chater adviser, Jacob Avila, was asking himself prior to Redwood High School's first FBLA meeting of the school year. When we spoke earlier in the day, Mr. Avila was wondering how the 225 students rumored to attend would all fit into the room. Somehow, Mr. Avila's two adjoining classrooms managed to accommodate a whopping 249 student attendees! There is nothing like a mini-mob of students to get everyone fired up about FBLA! I can't wait to see the results of this mega-dose of enthusiasm throughout the coming year.
With section OAT Days just around the corner, and LDIs North and South right on the heels of September, we have a ton of program information and opportunities to share with you in this issue of
Adviser News
. You'll want to read the whole enchilada at least once just to get a handle on the information and links to grant opportunities, CA FBLA important dates, a message from the Management Team President, Mr. Graeme Logie, and other information that will keep you informed and up to date. You can refer back to this issue often on the website
www.cafbla.org
.
Remember . . . you are invited to send your chapter news and notable happenings to me for future editions of this newsletter. We're all rooting for you, your chapter, and your students' success and amazing memories with CA FBLA in 2019-2020.
Have a great CA FBLA month!
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Laura T. Martin, Executive Director
California Future Business Leaders of America
559-381-2078
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Conference Attendee Mobile App Coming Soon!
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Beginning with our LDIs, CA FBLA members and advisers will be able to stay plugged in to the conference using their mobile devices and an app called
Guidebook
. If you attended the FBLA National Leadership Conference, you have already used this app to keep track of events, your schedule, participate in games and surveys, and to connect to other attendees.
Guidebook
is a simple, powerful, and intuitive tool that you will soon come to depend upon. Watch for more information on our conference web pages. In the meantime, encourage members to proactively download the free
Guidebook
app from their device's app store before the conference.
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A Message From the CA FBLA Management Team President
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Welcome to the 2019-2020 FBLA Year!
I would like to welcome you to another exciting year of California FBLA where "Your Future is Our Business!"
There have been, and there will continue to be, changes taking place within the organization, so please be sure to read through all linked information and become familiar with what is going on in 2019-2020.
First, to sign up for FBLA this year, you must complete and submit a
Chapter Affiliation Form
that gets submitted to the California Department of Education for approval. The form is going to ask about your level of compliance with the CDE requirements. If you are a chapter that is not quite in compliance yet, you will need to submit a plan that informs the CDE of how and when you will become compliant. For this year, and this year only, that plan will get you one more year of participation if you are not yet compliant. Failure to be compliant in 2020-2021 will mean that you cannot affiliate with FBLA at all. Chapters that will not be compliant in 2019-2020 will also not receive any chapter grant monies. I will not be able to answer your questions about which classes are acceptable, you must go to the CDE,
moanderson@cde.ca.gov
to get those questions answered. Chapter Affiliation approvals will be determined by the CDE.
Sue Christensen, CA FBLA Communications Manager, has taken on some additional responsibility this year as she will be administrating the CA FBLA Cy-Pres Personal Finance Grant that FBLA was awarded in August. Guidelines and details about how you can participate and access funds are located on our web site under
RESOURCES--Adviser/Teacher Resources.
Laura Martin, CA FBLA Executive Director & Program Manager, will be sending out a monthly newsletter to all CA FBLA chapter advisers. Please be on the lookout for those newsletters, as they will have feature stories, announcements and deadline reminders.
Money earned by students as travel awards at SLC for travel to the 2019 NLC will be sent out to chapters in mid-to-late September.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, challenges, or just want to say hello! Thank you, and have a great year!
Best regards,
Graeme
Graeme Logie
Management Team President
Bay Section Director - California Future Business Leaders of America
Chapter Adviser - Homestead High School Future Business Leaders of America
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Two Grant Opportunities for CA FBLA Advisers
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CA FBLA Cy-Pres Financial Literacy Grant Program
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As the result of a legal settlement of a major financial institution, CA FBLA has been awarded a grant to support learning opportunities and experiences in the area of
Financial Literacy
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Governor's CTE Initiative Funds
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Great news!
California FBLA, in conjunction with The Governor's CTE Initiative Funds and with support from the CDE, will once again award
Chapter Support Grants
of $850 this coming year to as many as 100 FBLA Chapters. Grants will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, so apply as soon as you can.
This year as promised, the application utilizes an online form. You will access the link to the application in the Grant Guidelines document.
If you have any questions regarding the grant application process, please contact me at
lmartin@cafbla.org
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A Message From Your State Adviser
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Affiliation…. Affiliation…. Affiliation…. As part of our new normal, an affiliation agreement is now required each year from your chapter. The agreement must be received before you can register students or participate in FBLA activities and events. We were unable to make the National Website route you to the affiliation form upon activating your account (as I told you in last month’s newsletter--sorry!) Instead, the National Office posted the agreement on their dues web page
HERE.
Also,
HERE
is a direct link to the agreement:
FBLA Affiliation Form 2019-20
. You will need your CalPads course codes and your principal’s e-mail address and cell phone number (required for after-hours contact in case of an emergency), the form takes only about a minute to complete – please make sure yours is submitted before you show up for OAT
Day. Thank you!
Funding! As you know, California has made a significant commitment to supporting CTE programs – including CTSO’s. Approximately 56 million of ongoing dollars are being allocated to the field. The next round of CTE Incentive Grant (CTEIG) applications will be made available this month – September 2019 with a due date of November 2019. PLEASE make your needs known to the CTEIG Coordinator at your site and/or District Office. I have seen applications come into our office with no mention of you, your pathway, or your CTSO. CTEIG funds are intended to support your programs. You can use these dollars to pay affiliation fees/dues, pay for travel in or out-of-state, registration fees, etc. etc. Applications will be due November 15, 2019, and funds are expected to reach your districts by March for the 2019-20 school year – so, just in time for SLC travel.
There are lots of exciting changes happening in CA FBLA this year. Change also brings questions and, sometimes uneasiness, right along with it. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns you may have. If I don’t know the answer, I promise I will look to find one in a timely and professional manner.
Happy New School Year – go work with our students and do what you do best! Happy OAT Day, too!
Molly
Molly M. Anderson, Education Programs Consultant
State Adviser for FBLA and DECA
Phone: (916) 445-6217
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Mark Your Calendars
Bring your officer teams to your Section OAT Day. Check your section's page at www.cafbla.org for details:
September 9 - Northern
September 14 - Bay, Gold Coast, Inland
September 21 - Central
September 28 - Southern
LDI Online Registration OPENS on Monday, September 9. Be on the lookout for the LDI Guides and links in your inbox as well as at
www.cafbla.org
under CONFERENCES. We are slightly delayed as the national office puts the final touches on our brand new conference registration portal!
- LDI-NORTH, October 18-20 at Santa Clara Marriott
- Hotel Reservations Close on September 27
- Registration Closes on September 30
- LDI-SOUTH, November 16-17 at the DoubleTree Anaheim-Orange
- Hotel Reservations Close on October 15
- Registration Closes on October 18
Did You Know?
If you click
CALENDAR
on our web site at
www.cafbla.org
, you will access a single, printable calendar with all section, state, and national events listed. AND . . . by clicking the hyperlink icon in the top area to obtain the calendar's link, you can
subscribe
to that calendar by using the ADD CALENDAR function in your own Google, Outlook, Apple, or Yahoo Calendar! Being a calendar subscriber will assure that you always have the latest calendar information.
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Adviser New
s
is positioning to be the No. 1, go-to resource for CA FBLA Advisers with important dates and deadlines, state and chapter news you need to know, as well as links, opportunities, and ideas you won't want to miss!
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Adviser News
are due by 12 Noon Pacific Time on the
Last Friday
of the month for publication on the
First Friday
of the month. Please submit your content as a WORD attachment using Arial font, 12 pt. Please include your cell phone or 'weekend contact' phone number for clarification purposes. Thank you!
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State Project Submitting Via Digital Badging System
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This year, for the first time, members and advisers will be submitting evidence of individual and chapter state projects work via our new digital badging system. At this time, state project guidelines are all posted on our web site at
www.cafbla.org
under the STATE PROJECTS menu, so that chapters can review necessary steps and get started on the hard, but fun work and collection of evidence. Project submission deadlines are in February and March 2020, but we know you all will want to get started well before deadlines since advisers now will be monitoring and approving their students' individual projects, and advisers will also be submitting the chapter projects for review by the State Office.
Instructions, screenshots, and recorded webinars for submitting in the new digital badging system for both students and advisers, as well as how advisers monitor and approve individual project submissions by their students
will be posted HERE
in the next few days and will be updated as needed. Please be aware that instructions for submitting chapter projects will be delayed until October as we wait for finishing touches on that part of the system being made right now by the programmers.
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CA FBLA members are invited to take part in a Sports Career Day with the San Jose Sharks on Saturday,
November 9
, 2019.
The day will feature a Sports Business Speaker Panel of Sharks executives who will share their experiences working in the industry. The day's activities will include a College Fair and the opportunity to see the Sharks game at SAP Center that night!
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National Database Update #1: How to Register Membership
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Need a little help registering your members up using the new national database portal? You aren't alone! A great big thanks to Ashley Witherspoon, Customer Service/Database Associate at the National FBLA Center in VA, for putting together FAQs, Step-by-Step instructions with screenshots, and a video of the webinar on Adding Members.
Find all these support resources linked on our web site HERE.
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Clovis, CA 93611
(559) 381-2078
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