YGL National Newsletter - June

This is the YGL National Newsletter, the e-mail digest highlighting the what's going on in YGL as a whole! This newsletter will help connect you explore a wealth of information related to your personal and professional lives as young public servants. 

In this edition...

1. Webinar: The Government has vast amount of valuable data - how can it best be used?
2. New YGL Chapters
3. What Motivates You to Give? 
4. Join us for Happy Hour!
5. NextGen 2013
6. YGL Chapter Highlights

 

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Join YGL & Public Private Innovations for a Free Webinar!

Public Private Innovations invites YGL Members to participate in a virtual webinar event hosted by former CIO of the Department of Transportation and current CEO of Launch Dream, Nitin Pradhan.

This event will give individuals an opportunity to participate in the solving of a critical government problem and see a potential solution as selected by Public Private Innovations.

The problem: The Government has vast amount of valuable data -- how can it best be used?

The Government has vast amounts of valuable content and data. If it “exposes” the right information through an “API Strategy and Automated Platform” both internal and external developers could utilize this feed, and perhaps combine it with other feeds from private sources to create innovative apps, new online products and citizen centric services – all without any additional cost to the government!

Those who use data on a daily basis and are curious about how technology can help them do their jobs better and make it easier to provide significant value to their agencies. 

Those with access to vast amount of government data and are exploring ways to create value from it for internal audiences, external audiences or both should attend this educational webinar strategy session and the API platform demo that will follow.

Additionally web and new media experts will benefit from this event.

Space Limited to First 20 to Respond, so RSVP today! http://ppiwebinar.eventbrite.com 

 

 

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Welcome to YGL!

We recently welcomed 5 new chapters into the YGL family! Congratulations to Kansas City, Pittsburg, and South Florida on their provisional status, and Dallas/Ft. Worth and Honolulu who are newly chartered! If you know anyone in these cities who might want to be involved in YGL, please direct them to the YGL website, and to check out our chapters here: http://younggov.org/chapters/

 

 

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Survey: What Motivates You to Give?

Young Government Leaders, a professional organization of almost 5,000 men and women, is committed to providing the authentic voice for our generation of aspiring government leaders. 

Civic engagement and government service are ideologically linked, and YGL members contribute to the improvement of their communities in several ways—at the office and outside of it. The goal of this survey is to ascertain what motivates giving, and how YGL’s members prefer to give to their community.

This survey should take less than 5 minutes. Your contribution is very valuable and will provide powerful insight into the choices young government employees make when serving their communities. Please note that all responses are confidential and we do not tie individual responses to personal information.

Click here to take this short survey!

 

 

Join Us for Happy Hour!

Have a new intern in your office this summer? Make a new friend at your kickball/softball/bocce ball/drinking game last week? Know someone who's been dying to meet young professionals in DC?

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NextGen 2013: Coming Soon!

The Next Generation of Government Training Summit began in 2010 and has enhanced the working and personal lives of 1000+ Generation X and Y government employees. The sessions and workshops presented during the two day summit are jam packed with information focused on educating, inspiring and training emerging government leaders to further enhance their day-to-day career and the betterment of government overall. 

The When: July 25, 2013 @ 8:00 AM — July 26, 2013 @ 5:00 PM 
The Where: JW Marriott, Washington DC 
Sponsored by: GovLoop & YGL 

DON'T WAIT: Register Today! Visit the conference website http://www.nextgengovt.com/.

 

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YGL Chapter Highlights

Let's celebrate recent successes in YGL chapters across the country!

Albuquerque solidified a new partnership with a Hispanic society, which provides professional development and mentorship opportunities. They also participated in a volleyball tournament to benefit a local children's hospital!

Baltimore partnered with Big Brother/Big Sister for a successful 1 year anniversary event in April. They were also successfully accepted into CFC, and coordinated their quarterly volunteer event at Habitat for Humanity! 

Bethesda recently hosted a great happy hour, and have many fun events planned for the summer! 

Boston 's membership exceeds 300, with 10 new members acquired from the GSA event.

Denver has also attained 300 members, and hosted a successful bowling event!

USC LA successfully registered 41 members in their first year! They are in the process for creating a standard operating procedure for other YGL university chapters to follow, and are focusing on professional development for students who want to work in government.