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2014 ChemLuminary Award Finalist Poster Session Reception was Tuesday August 12, 2014 from 8:00 - 9:00 PM and the  awards  were announced beginning at  9:00 PM , Palace Hotel, San Francisco. The Northeastern Local Section was a finalist in five event categories and received three, one of which I organized together with the Division of Environmental Chemistry!  L to R: Tracy Williamson, Chair ACS DIvision of Environmental Chemistry, Tom Barton, ACS President 2014, and Jennifer Maclachlan, ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry Appropriations Committee Member and Northeastern Local Section Public Relations & Communications Team Member  Below are the three posters that I designed for the 2014 ChemLuminary Award Finalist Poster Session. I am the Public Relations Chair for the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses and I prepared this poster by working with members of the Georgia Local Section who organized this collaborative event with SCHB at the rece

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Friday August 8, 2014, before the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, I  implemented the Innovate Project Grant (IPG) that I wrote, in my role as Public Relations Chair for the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses. My IPG was funded in the Fall of 2013.  The goal of Tools for Operational Success is to provide the executive committee of the Small Chemical Businesses Division with dedicated ACS Leadership Development System™ training courses.  We have developed this Tools for Operational Success to assist us as we begin our journey to develop our SCHB strategic vision for 2014 and beyond. Recognizing that we need additional volunteers to fill executive committee positions as well as both engage current members and increase new members, we began to utilize our collective talents as business owners and managers, by incorporating strategies that we each use on a daily basis in running our small chemical businesses and applying these to operating the SCHB. Advance submissi