Welcome to CPRS Regina

Welcome new and current CPRS Regina chapter members!

It’s great to see you back and I look forward to meeting you at our monthly Lunch & Learn sessions. First let me introduce our new CPRS Regina board. It's a mix of returning and fresh faces. We are: President – Natalie Tomczak, VP – Tim Tororey, Directors include: Administration – Sabrina Cataldo, Finance – Christelle Tiati, Membership – Ariane Whiting, Recruitment and Retention – Michelle James and Events and Marketing – Rose Brewster. The board looks forward to working with all members to make this another successful year for CPRS Regina.

One of our key roles is to provide regular professional development to our members. For the 2011-12 season we have booked experienced and resourceful presenters to come and speak to us on various topics relating to our jobs as public relations practitioners such as social media, crisis communications, community relations, reactive/proactive communications and other interesting topics.

Talking of social media, we have a Facebook fan page and we urge you to join and “like” CPRS Regina. We will be using Facebook as one of our communication tools as with our website, so make sure to check them out often!

With the healthy proceeds we generated in the last financial year, the board voted and created a CPRS Regina Scholarship to be presented to a deserving student in the public relations certificate program at the University of Regina. It’s set-up to run five years with the opportunity to last longer with the Matching Gift Program at the U of R. The award will commence in the 2011 academic year.

New this season, we will be providing you with a feedback questionnaire at some of the Lunch & Learns sessions. We want to hear from you! Please provide suggestions on how we can improve. We’ll also be sending an e-mail surveying our members on other general matters about the chapter.

On behalf of the CPRS Regina board, we thank you for your continued support.

Natalie Tomczak
President CPRS Regina