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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Join BIG and become an advocate for positive change in workplace. You can also can join the NOW Generation, which focuses on programming for young professionals under the age of 40 looking to enhance their success and become leaders in the workplace. Attend the next happy hour networking event or professional development workshop. There is also the Darlene Young Youth Leadership Academy (DLYA). This pathway for leadership success program is available for GS 5 - 15 and is supported by by the Agency as well as accredited by Morgan State, University. As noted earlier, there is also the annual National Training Institute (NTI) that is usually held in August.

Various leadership positions are open for those who wish to ensure the viably of this chapter. So far this year we’ve had coordinated programs with the BIG, NIH Chapter, FEW, and other department Employee Resource Groups (ERG) The Juneteenth Program was absolutely a winner, as well as the Publishing workshop and Black History program. We are looking for more voices and input from the members. Most of us at ED are working remotely, so continue to be safe wherever you are working.

The NTI this year is in Washington, D.C. At the Gaylord Hotel, National Harbor. From August 28 -31. Hope to see you there. The NTI is just another reason to join BIG, which was established in 1975 and incorporated in 1976 by a small group of African Americans at the Public Health Services of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Parklawn building in Rockville, Maryland. After initially thinking the national organization would address only the problems at the Federal level, it soon became apparent that State, County, and Municipal Black employees were faced the similar wide assortment of racially motivated problems in the workplace. Today and still relevant, BIG and continues to responds to the needs of its membership working in the federal, state, and local sectors.

WHY

BIG?

REMEMBER the past…

…or be doomed to REPEAT it.

BIG GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

1. To be an advocate of equal opportunity for Blacks in government.
2. To eliminate practices of racism and racial discrimination against Blacks in government.
3. To promote professionalism among Blacks in government.
4. To develop and promote programs which will enhance ethnic pride and educational opportunities for Blacks in government.
5. To establish a mechanism for gathering and disseminating information for Blacks in government.
6. To provide a nonpartisan platform on major issues of local, regional and national significance that affect Blacks in government.mer & Current National BIG President