If you haven’t already purchased your ticket for Thursday’s Network! Nashville, now is the time! Our friends at Nashville Junior Chamber are teaming up with YLC, Junior League of Nashville, Network Under 40 and Music City Young Professionals to connect, collaborate, and expand our professional and personal network in a non-business like environment. Grab a drink and expand your network at the biggest young professional networking event in Nashville from 6pm-8pm at Sambuca, 601 12th Avenue South. Tickets are $15 for members only and includes 1 drink ticket and appetizers. There are only 150 tickets available so plan ahead and buy today as they will sell out fast! Use access code NETWORKNASH to purchase tickets here. Once you enter the access code, you will see ticket options for each organization. Please select Young Leaders Council if you are a YLC alumnus, upcoming class participant or read about this event through our socials. Hope to see you there!
On August 1, the 13th Annual Nashville Emerging Leader Awards (NELAs), presented by Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and YP Nashville, recognized the 14 industry winners from the 70 finalists announced bacck in May. A committee comprising industry experts, community leaders and past NELA recipients within each industry selected finalists from a pool of more than 900 nominees based on their professional achievements, demonstrated leadership and community impact. Thirteen of the finalists were YLC alumni with two being named winners last night. Congratulations to David Wells (Class 61) with Woodmont Investment Counsel in the Financial Services category and Ashley Northington (Class 62) with DENOR Brands + Public Relations in the Government and Public Affairs category. Read more about David and Ashley here.
Nashville Business Journal recently announced its 2019 Power Leaders of Finance. Nominations were accepted from the public and then an independent panel of judges helped determine who you need to know in Nashville’s finance scene, whether you’re looking for help in accounting, banking, financial planning or you need to go straight to the C-suite. Congratulations to the YLC alumni who made this year’s list: Harry Allen (Class 62), Studio Bank; Russell Bates (Class 18), Deloitte; Tim Bewley (Class 53), Pinnacle Financial Advisors; Lee Blank_w (Class 8), Regions Bank; John Crosslin (Class 56), Crosslin PLLC; Justin Crosslin (Class 53), Crosslin PLLC; Aaron Dorn (Class 50), Studio Bank; Brenton D. Harrison (Class 56), Henderson Financial Group Inc.; and Mickey McKay (Class 3), Fifth Third Bank. All the winners will be featured in the Aug. 30 print issue.
Summer break is almost over with Metro Nashville Public Schools being less than a week away from starting. Our friends at PENCIL had a Back-to-School Celebration this past Saturday to distribute FREE school supplies to ALL MNPS teachers before the school year begins. As an individual or corporation, there is still an opportunity to help stock the LP Pencil Box with more school supplies for our hard-working Metro teachers or purchase supplies from PENCIL’s Amazon wish list to get through the entire school year. You can also donate funds, where every $1 donated allows PENCIL to provide $8 worth of school supplies to Metro Nashville Public School teachers! See all these great ways to help in the blue boxes halfway down the page..
Three YLC alumni were presented awards this past Wednesday night at Franklin Tomorrow’s 13th annual Exemplary Community Volunteer Awards. Presented at The Franklin Theatre, in partnership with Jackson National Life Insurance Company, two of the three awards given in the Volunteer Spirit category, honoring volunteers who are involved either in a variety of community activities or primarily in one organization as a significant volunteer, were for YLC alumni–Patrick Baggett (YLC/Williamson Chamber Class 2013), nominated by Franklin Noon Rotary and Carmen Stanek (YLC/Williamson Chamber Class 2017), nominated by Sydney Ball, for A Vintage Affair, Cards of Care and Young Leaders Council. Sydney Ball (YLC/Williamson Chamber Class 2016) of First Citizens National Bank was the recipient of the Corporate Individual Award for her work with the Next Gen Advisory Board of the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County, Lipscomb University, Youth Leadership Franklin and A Vintage Affair. Congratulations to Patrick, Carmen and Sydney for the great volunteer work you do in Williamson County!
El Jardin de los Niños, East Nashville (The Children’s Garden), a parents day out program at Woodland Presbyterian Church, exists to provide a safe and supportive Spanish language focused preschool option for the Nashville community. The goal of the program is to meet the intellectual, social and developmental needs of each child while simultaneously teaching students about environmental and global responsibility. The program is currently in the process of applying for 501(c)(3) status and is looking for board members. Here is a great opportunity for YLC alumni or upcoming class participants to offer their skills and resources in the very early stages of this emerging nonprofit. If interested, contact executive director Venus Wooten at thechildrensgardeneast@gmail.com.
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