This is a work in progress, one that all our volunteers will be involved in building and contributing to. Bottom line: we are going to build this thing together.

We start with an overview of the new Chapter Support structure that provides information on key components of the "Chapter and Region Realignment Initiative." That is followed with a clear statement of the BI South Region's Mission, Goals and Annual Plan for achieving our shared mission. This is a key area where the Region's board of directors will contribute ideas on how we can better support our BI membership and guidance on what our priorities for support initiatives should be.

Next we have a section providing overview information on each chapter in the region. Each chapter's information tab provides summary data on their chapter, volunteer team information (who's doing what), demographic information on the BI membership being supported by the chapter and other useful information. Through this we hope to share among our volunteers information on how other chapters are operated and what lessons and best practices we can adopt to improve our own chapter's operation and support effectiveness. Volunteers in each chapter are encouraged to share with others in the volunteer community their ideas and best practices by either direct contact* with their counterparts in other chapters or by sending in their ideas to add to the South Region's Library (send to betterinvestingsouthregion@gmail.com).

A growing section of the website is the South Region Library where we curate a variety of information that our volunteers tell us they'd like to have just a "click away." In most cases, this is content that our volunteers have questions on so, after researching the answer, we included it in the library. As more volunteers use the library we expect there will be more sharing of best practices and other ideas on how we can better achieve our support mission to the BI community.

We've included a Volunteer Training Guide developed through collaboration of the Emerald Coast, Southeast and Space/Gulf Coast Chapters for your use (and constructive improvements). For those seeking ways to further contribute to our organization's training mission we've included materials under the Region Policy Guidelines tab to help guide you on service opportunities beyond the Chapter level.

We have a Calendar and Announcement web pages to provide when and where information on chapter activities and highlight things we need to know.

As we work together, inevitably, there'll be the need to further explain things. We'll post these (yet to be developed) things on the FAQ tab or other areas of this website where it makes the most sense.

Future improvements to this BI South Region Leadership Support website will be a collaborative process that we plan on building together. Those who are interested in getting training on how to develop and administer this website should contact the webmaster at betterinvestingsouthregion@gmail.com for information.

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* due to privacy concerns personal contact information is not published but can be obtained from the volunteer in each chapter who has been entrusted with the chapter's membership files