
Conference details to come. http://www.aabpa.org/
The National Professional Development Institute (PDI) is a premier training event for resource managers in the Department of Defense and US Coast Guard. Each year, more than 3300 attendees converge for a four day event, which includes a full day of service activities, seven general sessions, more than seventy workshops, and many special events. http://www.asmconline.org/development/pdi8.shtml
Enjoy a complete program of special events benefiting The Children’s Inn at NIH at Lakewood Country Club, Rockville, Maryland including: 18 holes of golf (captain’s choice format) including cart, prizes for each player, putting challenge on practice green, longest drive contests, closest to the pin challenge, hole-in-one shootout for a fabulous new car, chip’n challenge during evening cocktail hour, dinner and awards banquet hosted by Paul Berry. http://www.childrensinn.org/site/c.kkI1KiMXIvF/b.3596431/k.D092/Golf_INNvitational.htm
The GMN Annual Conference brings together grants management professionals from across the nation to discuss important trends and learn new skills. Participants will receive concrete ideas and resources to improve their organization’s grantmaking operations. The professional connections made at the conference will create a peer community that offers advice, problem solving support, ideas, and resources long after the conference ends. http://www.gmnetwork.org/annual-conference/2010/home
Government financial managers are deeply committed to producing timely, reliable and useful financial information, with the goal of running government programs more efficiently. At AGA’s National Leadership Conference (NLC), those sentiments are more than just words. The NLC brings together government financial management and accountability leaders to share leadership secrets, provide “how-to” lessons, discuss the newest management techniques, and the most recent information on always-changing standards and regulations. http://www.agacgfm.org/NLC_holder/index.htm
Awarded to Ken Fang, Chairman, the Minority Business Leader Awards honor the Washington area’s top minority business leaders and owners who exhibited outstanding performance for their companies within the last 12-18 months. The finalists are profiled in a special supplement of the Washington Business Journal.
In 1982, Inc. introduced the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. Since then, this prestigious list of the nation’s most successful companies has become the hallmark for entrepreneurial success and one of the places where future household names first make their mark: Domino's Pizza, Microsoft, Go Daddy, and Zappos.com have all been honorees.
In 2007, the list expanded to the Inc. 500|5000, giving readers a deeper, richer understanding of the entrepreneurial landscape and capturing a broader spectrum of success. The list is a distinguished editorial award, a published celebration of innovation, a network of modern entrepreneurial leaders, and an esteemed public relations showcase published by the leading entrepreneurial advocate for 30 years running.
The 50 Fastest-Growing Asian American Businesses recognizes the 50 fastest-growing Asian American-owned companies, based on percentage revenue growth over three years: 2004 to 2006 (2005 to 2007 for FYE between January and June).
The IAC Collaboration and Transformation SIG’s seventh annual Excellence.Gov awards program focused on Leveraging Technology to Enhance Collaboration, with a focus on how government organizations achieve their objectives by more effectively working together by using innovation technologies. Altum received this award for its Scientific Coding System OnDemand solution implemented at the National Institutes of Health.