Welcome to SPJ Leading Edge, a newsletter designed to provide chapter leaders and officers with the tools and information to help you lead a chapter, grow and retain membership and improve and protect journalism in your communities. Remember, membership is local. How can we help? Communication is a two-way street. Please send your responses, ideas, questions or problems to Heather Dunn.
January 16th, 2012
Resources to help you!
By Heather Dunn
Good afternoon,
We’ve been working hard to put together resources that will help our chapter leaders stay on top of things. Here are a few for you to check out.
Calendar
We’ve complied important dates all in one place. You’ll find due dates for chapter related materials, spring conferences, convention deadlines and SPJ/SDX board meetings. Visit this page to view the calendar. We’ll update it as we become aware of new dates. Be sure to bookmark this page so you can check back often to see what’s going on.
Program Ideas
SPJ Leads has been featuring a Program Idea of the Week for the last couple of months. All of those great ideas have been compiled in one place for you. Visit the program ideas page for ideas from chapters across the country. Have a great program idea you’d like to see featured? Email it to me for consideration.
Model Bylaws
Make sure your chapter’s bylaws hit all the important points! See a copy of the model bylaws put together by the bylaws committee here.
Downloadable Resources
Need SPJ logos or convention banner ads for your chapter website? Check out the list of resources here.
Best Wishes,
Heather Dunn
Director of Events
Society of Professional Journalists