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AGM :: CPRS-VI Annual General Meeting
Join us for speakers, a year in review and to elect the 2012-2013 Board of Directors.
May 17, 2012 11:30am-1:30pm
Magnolia Hotel & Spa
The program for the AGM will include a presentation on Victoria's Vital Signs - Building a Smart and Caring Community.The Victoria Foundation's Vital Signs program is a great public relations success story. Foundation CEO Sandra Richardson and Sharlene Smith, the program's project manager for its first six years, will share the building blocks that made it successful and the impact it's had on the Foundation and our community.
About Sandra Richardson
Sandra Richardson, CEO of the Victoria Foundation, is in the business of both giving and receiving. The community foundation gives grants to charitable initiatives. It also receives and stewards donations. Sandy, whose background is in nursing and fundraising, embodies key principles of the Victoria Foundation. That is: a long-term view, a broad perspective, and above all, commitment to community service. This commitment has been widely honoured. For example, Sandy has received the Vancouver Island Public Relations Professional of the Year Award, the Royal Roads University Chancellor’s Community Recognition Award, the Rotary Community Leadership Award and she has been invited into the Order of St. John. She currently serves on the Board of Community Foundations of Canada and is an active participant with the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network.
About Sharlene Smith, APR, FCPRS
Sharlene Smith is the owner/operator of CommPlan Canada, a communication management consulting firm based in Victoria. She is a founding member of the University of Victoria and Royal Roads public relations certificate programs where she has taught hundreds of public relations practitioners from across Canada. Sharlene brought the Vancouver Island CPRS chapter out of hiatus in 1991. She served as its president, accreditation chair and education chair. She has sat on the national board of CPRS, co-chaired a National Task Force on Volunteerism, chaired bylaws and regulations for four years, co-chaired the highly successful 2001 national conference in Whistler and was on the National Accreditation Council for eight years, the last two as its presiding officer. She was inducted into the CPRS College of Fellows in 2003 and is a recipient of the Society's Lamp of Service - Canada's most coveted public relations honour for an individual member.
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