12:00 - 2:00

2:00 - 4:00

5:00 - 8:00

Volunteer Kickoff

7:00 - 10:00

Hors D'oeuvres Reception

8:00 - 8:45

8:45 - 10:15

10:30 - 12:00

Breakout Sessions

• CMP Bootcamp — Janet Sperstad, CMP
• Hot Technologies — James Spellos
• Effective Business Emails — Franklin Billerbeck

12:00 - 1:15

1:15 - 2:45

Breakout Sessions

• CMP Bootcamp — Janet Sperstad, CMP
• Effective Business Emails — Franklin Billerbeck
• Working with your CVB/VCB — Mae Ibe, CMP (Fox Cities CVB), Sara Brish (Stevens Point Area CVB), Helen R. Wick (Wisconsin Dells Visitor & Convention Bureau), and Paul Sienko (Visit Milwaukee)

2:45 - 3:00

Closing Reception & Raffle

Volunteer Kickoff

Want to learn more about your chapter, how it works, and what volunteers do to make a difference?  Want to gain some very important leadership skills, earn points towards your CMP, and help your chapter succeed?   Join us as we get ready to kick off another MPI year!  The volunteer kickoff will provide you with information on the many volunteer opportunities available in your chapter.  Please join us as we begin planning for the 2008-2009 MPI year. 

Wednesday Night Reception

Following the volunteer kick off, all members are invited to join your MPI friends and colleagues for a reception from 7 to 10pm.  Hula dancers to perform and give lessons!

Outreach for America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin

With the timing of schools releasing for the summer at the end of May, the MPI Wisconsin Chapter  will be having a non-perishable food drive for the America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin food bank.  This food drive will be held throughout the May 15th, Spring Education Day event in Brookfield, Wisconsin.  We hope that by having the food drive at our Education Day Event it will help those that have had supplemented food through the school systems and will now have to come up with food for their children who will be home throughout the summer.

We'd like to ask that if you can hold a food drive at your location of work in the end of April or the first two weeks of May, that you bring the food drive offerings with you to the May 15th Spring Education Day to help us make the MPI Outreach be successful.  If you can't actually hold a food drive at your location, we'd like to ask that you fill a grocery bag with non-perishable items and bring them with you to the May 15th Spring Education Day to help us help the America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin food bank.  Monetary donations will also be accepted.

America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin has warehouses in Milwaukee and the Fox Valley, where they distribute 13 million pounds of food a year to more than 1,100 pantries, meal programs and other non-profit agencies that serve nearly 235,000 people in the eastern half of Wisconsin.

Through the Milwaukee distribution center, they provide more than 11 million pounds of food to nearly 800 non-profit programs in nine counties.  More than 172,000 people depend on food supplied by America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin's Milwaukee warehouse.

Through the Fox Valley branch, they provide more than 2 million pounds of food to nearly 300 non-profit programs in 27 counties. More than 62,000 people depend on food supplied by American's Second Harvest of Wisconsin's Fox Valley distribution center.

American's Second Harvest of Wisconsin was founded in 1982 by the Rotary Club of Milwaukee.  Starting with their first donation of a bushel of apples, they have distributed more than 160 million pounds of food to the hungry in our state.