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GLFD SELECTED BY "REACHING OUT MBA" TO HELP LAUNCH MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN
Last Quarter 2011
GLFD was one of handful of local non-profits selected by Reaching Out MBA to participate in their 14th annual conference held in Dallas. Reaching Out MBA is a national 501(c)(3) that promotes the education, visibility and networking capabilities of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender business leaders in the United States and around the globe. Reaching Out MBA facilitates the formation of communities between and among MBA students from the nation's premier MBA programs (such as Harvard, Wharton, Chicago, NYU and UT Austin and UCLA), and blue-chip companies (including McKinsey & Company, Google, Toyota, Deloitte, PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson, The Boston Consulting Group, and Merck), in an ongoing effort to create the next generation of LGBT business leaders. The organization targets graduate business students and a broad range of corporations as it seeks to increase the awareness of LGBT issues in an increasingly diverse workplace as well as public life.
During their 2011 conference, held in Dallas from October 13 – 16, a strategy was created to broaden the base of GLFD by including families, gay organizations with in local corporations, and increase contact rate and derive more benefits from current technology such as the website, social marketing, and e-mail management tools. GLFD President, Keith Nix, helped create the strategy with participating MBA students. Nix stated, "Both the general sessions and break-out groups carried a lot of power and energy. These very diverse MBAs were professional, brilliant, empathetic, inquisitive and offered dramatic ideas for the benefits of our membership organization."
We were excited and honored to be invited to participate and gained much from the experience!
