Please alert us to grads (including yourself) in the news for future issues of the log.

Susan Kerr, LDI VII is quoted in the July 3, 2008 issue of the City Paper for her work in Foster Care. Kerr serves as Community Outreach Liaison for Family Services of Western Pennsylvania. Click here for the full article.

Patricia J. Raffaele, LP X, was recently elected President of the Pittsburgh Society of Association Executives. Raffaele also recently joined the Board of Directors of the Washington County Health Partners, Inc.

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LDI XVI Welcome Reception
Please join us in welcoming the newest partcipants in Leadership Development Initiative LDI XVI! A reception will take place on October 2nd, 2008 at the National Aviary on the Northside from 5:30- 8:00 PM. If you would like to attend, please call 412.392.4504 or email office@lpinc.org.

The class will embark on an overnight retreat at Camp Kon-O-Kwee on the evening following the reception. October 3rd and 4th will be a weekend of low-ropes and leadership learning experiences for our latest group of emerging leaders.

LP XXV Retreat
On Friday, September 19 through Saturday, September 20, 2008, the 60 participants of LP XXV will convene for their overnight Opening Retreat at the Mountain View Inn in Greensburg. The Opening Retreat experience will focus the class on their roles as Influential, courageous, and exemplary leaders who can impact the regional agenda at the leadership level. We are proud to partner with Development Dimensions International, through Leadership Pittsburgh Graduates Tacy M. Byham, Ph.D., LP XXII, Senior Consultant, Executive Solutions, DDI and Eric Hanson, LP XXIV, Executive Consultant, DDI, to deliver this key experience that will provide the foundation for their 9 month intensive study of our community's critical issues and challenges and their responses to them.

     

A Story, a Challenge, a Promise . . . And Leadership --LP XXIV and the Future of Our Children
As part of the Leadership Pittsburgh 25th Anniversary Celebration in May, Leadership Pittsburgh Inc. issued a challenge to individual LP and LDI classes to have as many of their own cohort as possible attend the festivities. In the spirit of leadership, LPInc. awarded the class with the highest number of attendees a mini-grant of $1000.00 for them to utilize in bettering our community and region. Our most recent graduating class, LP XXIV, championed the challenge and received the grant. (Congrats again LP XXIV!).

Not content with meeting that challenge, LP XXIV decided to meet it with another! Members of the class utilized the grant as challenge money to motivate and inspire their classmates to raise money to support the efforts of The Pittsburgh Promise, a community commitment to both help students and families of the Pittsburgh Public Schools plan, prepare, and pay for education beyond high school and enhance the growth, stability and economic development of the Pittsburgh region. The Pittsburgh Promise program was launched in December 2007 with a $100 million commitment from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), which included an initial $10 million to implement the scholarship program in time to support the 2008 graduates of the school district. The remaining $90 million is a challenge grant, intended to spur a community-wide campaign to raise an additional $135 million ($15 million per year over the next nine years). As national research indicates, the prosperity of a region is dependent on the prosperity of the city at its core. Like many urban centers, Pittsburgh is facing a decline in its city school population, residents and businesses. A healthy, well-performing school system is vital to the success of a city, contributing economic and social stability, discouraging population loss, helping to inspire urban growth, attracting families back to the urban core and producing the qualified workers that local businesses need in order to prosper. The Pittsburgh Promise supports both Pittsburgh Public Schools and the vision of a healthy, vibrant, city core for our region.

$1000.00 in hand, LP XXIV took to the internet and in three short weeks and largely through the power of a grassroots, email campaign amongst their class, LP XXIV turned that $1,000.00 into nearly $9,000.00! (They certainly have a better rate of investment return than the stock market!). The class experiences throughout their LP curriculum informed their decision to support The Pittsburgh Promise and influenced this act of truly exemplary leadership.

Not content with challenging only each other, LP XXIV has decided that they want to spearhead efforts to challenge OTHER LPI classes to meet or exceed their contribution to The Pittsburgh Promise. LP XXIV has committed $500.00 of the funds they raised as a challenge grant for another LP class! Within the next month, LP XXIV will be issuing a formal challenge to an additional LP class (watch your email boxes!) to help make the vision of The Pittsburgh Promise a reality. LP XXIV hopes to start a movement that finds all LP classes challenging each other to support our kids (as The Pittsburgh Promise refers to the students it serves in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.)

LPInc. applauds LP XXIVs vision, efforts and their willingness to strengthen our region in a truly meaningful way!

Opportunity Connections Featuring Dr. Bill Byham: Leadership Success in China October 8, 2008 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM Rivers Club, Downtown Pittsburgh RSVP at: http://www.lpinc.org/community_events.asp

$12 for LPI Connective members, $15 for others
price includes breakfast.

If you are not an LPI Connective member, please consider joining at http://www.lpinc.org/.

Join us for breakfast and learn from an expert on US-China relations. Bill Byham, Cofounder and CEO of Development Dimensions Interanational, will discuss his work on the book Leadership Success in China: An Expatriate's Guide. He will share his insights on how to develop your business to succeed, be it in Pittsburgh or China.

Athena Award Recipient and Nominees

Congratulations to this years Athena Award recipient, Kate Dewey, LP VIII, Principal, Dewey & Kaye A McCrory & McDowell company.

Congratulations to these graduates, whose leadership was recognized by the community as nominees or finalists in this prestigious award program:

Heidi Bartholomew, LP XXIII, Vice President & Controller, FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. Lynn Brusco, LP XXIV, Vice President, Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse Doris Carson Williams, LP XVI, President & CEO, African American Chamber of Commerce of Western PA Helen Fallon, LP XXV Gretchen Haggerty, LP III, Executive Vice President and CFO, United States Steel Corporation. Judith Olsen, LP XX, Partner, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP

Pennsylvania Governor's Conference for Women

Get Ready to Begin the Next Chapter of Your Life!
The 5th Annual Governor's Conference for Women
October 2, 2008 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center

Hosted by Governor Edward G. Rendell and the Pennsylvania Commission for Women, the Governor's Conference for Women is a non-profit, nonpartisan, one-day annual conference that features more than 75 reknowned speakers sharing inspirational stories and leading seminars on the issues that matter most to women, including health, personal finance, business and entrepreneurship, career resources, work-life balance, media, and more. The conference offers incredible opportunities for business networking, professional development, and personal growth. Learn more and register at http://www.pagovernorsconferenceforwomen.org/.

2008 Racial Justice Awards

Awards will be presented at the 17th annual Racial Justice Awards Dinner, to take place on Wednesday, November 19, atthe Westin Hotel, downtown Pittsburgh. Sponsorship opportunities available by calling 412-255-1258.