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Earth Day worldwide will be celebrated on April 22nd. This global initiative was simply promoted in the New York Times on Sunday, November 30th, 1969 in an article by Gladwin Hill "A national day of observance of environmental problems is being planned for next spring when a nationwide environmental 'teach in' coordinated from the offices Senator Gaylord Nelson is being planned." stated Hill. The first Earth Day was organized in 1970 in an effort to promote environmental citizenship worldwide. Millions of demonstrators and thousands of schools and communities participated. This year, organizers are preparing for the biggest Earth Day ever!
 
In Clermont County, we are celebrating Earth Day on Saturday, April 18th and Saturday, April 25th from 9am - Noon.  Clermont County Earth Day celebrations began 12 years ago with the very first spring litter pickup and Roadside Rainbow event organized by Clermont 20/20, Inc. Litter and debris was removed from roadsides in Clermont County and in its place thousands of daffodil bulbs were planted! We feel, just like other Earth Day event organizers, ours will be the biggest and best yet!  There will be at least 14 different staging areas in Clermont County where volunteers can register and pickup safety equipment and litter collection supplies.  Recyclables will be separated from the rest of the litter and recycled it appropriately.  T-shirts and refreshments will be available while they last for all of our hardworking volunteers.
 
I would like to thank our major contributors for making this year's spring litter pickup possible: Adams Clermont Solid Waste District, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, United Dairy Farmers, Allscreen, Duke Energy, H.J Benkens Florist and Greenhouse, Kamphaus, Henning and Hood CPA, Ace Hardware-Withamsville and Murphy Supply Company in West Chester.  We really couldn't do it without you!
 
But ... I am looking forward to the day that this event is no longer needed.  I am looking forward to the day when passengers traveling though Clermont County are astonished by just how clean, green and litter free our county is.  I am looking forward to the day that residents realize that littering of any sort is not socially acceptable in Clermont County.  I am looking forward to the day that it is easier to enforce current litter laws.  Yes, I am looking forward to the day that I have worked myself right out of a job!

Clean and Green Spring Litter Pickup

Please contact Becky Ploucha, Clermont 20/20 Clean and Green Program Director, at cleanandgreen@clermont2020.org or 513-753-9222, with questions.

Golf is great for your business because it's a perfect way to get people out of a structured office environment and into a more relaxed atmosphere where everyone shares the same passion.
 
How can you use golf as a reward?
How can you align your business with the game of golf?
        
SPONSOR A CHARITY GOLF EVENT!
 
6. The event usually includes spots into outings at premier golf courses.
5. A great opportunity to support your community, plus allow key employees and clients to play!
4. Gives employees another recreational perk.
3. Builds your pool of golfing employees to represent your company when opportunities present themselves.
2. It's a great way to create visibility and good will!
1. It creates value for your business with your clients and the community!

 

Clermont 20/20, Inc. A Vision for Leadership is a private,
non-profit 501(c) (3) organization. 
 

On Monday, June 22, 2009, we are hosting our annual golf outing. 
This year's event will be held at the Legendary Run Golf Course in Pierce Township. The event will have a noon shotgun start. Lunch and Dinner will be provided.
 
Funds from this event allow Clermont 20/20, Inc. to continue its mission as a catalyst, bringing people together to improve the quality of life in Clermont County and support our programs, like the Clermont 20/20 Inc. Clean and Green, Leadership Development, Community Development, Mentor Program, and Clermont Educational Opportunities.
 
In addition to being an incredible day of fun and networking opportunities, the sky is the limit on the ways your organization can gain from supporting this popular event.

• Best opportunity to create visibility, good will, and value for your business with your clients
  • Event Sponsor
• Better opportunities to create visibility, good will, and value for your business with your clients
  • Drink Cart Sponsor
  • Lunch Sponsor 
  • Dinner Sponsor
• Good opportunity to create visibility, good will, and value for your business with your clients
  • Major Raffle Sponsor
• Good opportunity to support your community, plus allow key employees and/or clients to play!
  • Golf Scramble Foursome Sponsor
    • a company that enters 2 or more foursomes in the golf scramble will also receive a complimentary hole sponsorship in the company's name
• Opportunities to create visibility and good will
  • Hole Sponsor
  • Putting Green Sponsor
  • Driving Range Sponsor
  • Door Prize Sponsor

• promote the outing to area businesses,
• develop an action plan to bring in raffle and door prize donations,
• encourage local organizations to support the event through hole sponsorship and foursome participation.

Partners in the Clermont 20/20 Garnering Resources for Access and Success Program (GRASP) are organizing an event for the Clermont Northeastern School District and the community on Tuesday, May 19th at 6:00pm. The event will take place in the ECEC Building located on the CNE High School and Middle School Campus.
 
Clermont 20/20 - Clermont Educational Opportunities, Clermont County Educational Service Center, Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development, Ohio College Tech Prep Greater Cincinnati Consortium, Southwest Ohio Educational Opportunity Center, University of Cincinnati - Clermont College, TRIO Educational Talent Search and TRIO Upward Bound are all partners in the GRASP program and will be represented at the event.  The event will be an opportunity for parents, students and adult learners in the community to learn about the services offered through each program and how these partners can assist them in realizing their post-secondary education goals.
 
For more information about post-secondary education resources and the Clermont 20/20 GRASP Program visit the GRASP website at www.clermont2020.org/grasp. Please contact Becky Ploucha, Clermont 20/20 GRASP Program Coordinator, at grasp@clermont2020.org or 513-753-9222 for additional information.

As a graduate from a Clermont 20/20, Inc. leadership program,
if you have an announcement you would like to share
please send your information to officemgr@clermont2020.org
This effort is brought to you by the LEAD Class of 2008.

• April 3 - Robin Casada, LEAD Class of  2005
• April 7 - Gene Bishop, Senior Leadership Class of 2002
• April 24 - George Brown, Clermont Senior Services, LEAD Class of 1994
• April 24 - April Thompson, National City Bank, LEAD Class of 2008
• April 29 - Ed Humphrey, Clermont County Commissioner, LEAD Class of 2001

Please click on the link below and enter your birthday for us. We are creating a birthday calendar for Clermont 20/20. Don't worry, it'll take less than a minute (and you don't have to enter your year of birth).

http://www.birthdayalarm.com/dob/15681568a985647404b363

• The Butler Foundation 
• Christ Church Cathedral
• The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation
• The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati
• The Andrew Jergens Foundation
• Macy's
• The Mayerson Foundation
• PNC Bank
• Procter & Gamble Fund of GCF
• William Cooper Procter Fund 
• Scripps Howard Foundation
• United Way of Greater Cincinnati
• Women's Fund of GCF 
• Craig Young Family Foundation

1. Create constancy and purpose on an on-going basis so everyone knows why and what they are doing.
2. Teach all to adapt to change, and work to keep ahead of change, because change needs to happen to ensure quality.
3. Stop micro managing quality; instead, build quality self-assessment into the process and company culture.
4. Build on long term relationships vs. going with the lowest priced person.
5. Commit to daily improvement, with an understanding that this is an on-going process that never ends.
6. Institute job training and on-going professional development.
7. Offer leadership development; do not assume promotions make leaders.
8. Remove all fear from the organization.
9. Remove and break down any barriers between groups within the company.
10. Eliminate targets from the workforce; they need to be driven by the employees, not management.
11. Eliminate numerical goals for production; instead, work on developing methods for improving production and quality.
12. Eliminate barriers that removed workmanship pride.
13. Institute a program of company-wide self improvement and development.
14. Develop company-wide action plans that involve every employee, with the goal of creating a company-wide transformation to quality.

These are the fourteen critical factors that W. Edwards Deming created (professionally accepted philosopher and process developer).

From: Howatt, W. A., (2008, p.14).  Leadership vs. management.  Kentville, Nova Scotia: Howatt HR Consulting Inc.