BDPA Members and Friends,

As you may all be aware, each year, our Richmond chapter trains a team of high school students to design websites and sponsors their trip to the National BDPA Technology conference to compete for college scholarships in the BDPA High School Computer Competition.  This is a great benefit to our students in that it engages them in healthy competition, allows them to demonstrate their computer prowess, allows them to understand that hard work pays off and, most of all, gives them the confidence in continuing these efforts and, hopefully, furthering their education and knowledge.  Each year we sponsor a competition team of five students and additional students who attend the Youth Technology camp.

Our traditional way of providing financial support is to do fund raising events. Due to our busy schedules and lives at home and work, we all cannot attend and contribute for these types of efforts.  Therefore, we have decided to break tradition and provide a way for our entire Richmond Chapter to help with this great opportunity to send our youth to the National BDPA Technology conference.   With our Richmond chapter member base now exceeding 170 members (approximately 65 full members), we would like to give you a chance to contribute. 

As members of the Richmond chapter, to be true to our Guiding Principle of "Educate to Elevate", we owe it to our youth to support them in what ever means necessary to help them succeed in the High School Computer Competition program, furthering their education, and ultimately increasing their chances to succeed in life.

We are offering 3 ways for you to contribute:

1)  Send a donation to our Chapter’s P.O. Box 
       BDPA RICHMOND
       P.O. Box 26243
       Richmond, VA 23260

2)  You can click here to donate through PAY PAL.
    

3)  Contact a Board member for a donation

President - Jacquelyn Pryor  president@bdparichmond.org
President Elect - Jamar Arvin   presidentelect@bdparichmond.org
VP Finance - Julia Harris finance@bdparichmond.org
Director or Membership - Aaron Bailey  membership@bdparichmond.org
Director of HR – Annette Yates  humanresources@bdparichmond.org
VP of Education - Jacki Davis  education@bdparichmond.org

In using either method, please send me an email using the address below indicating that you have made a donation and the chapter will send you an email receipt.  All of your contributions will go to our scholarship fund.

Here is an easy opportunity for you to support your chapter and our future chapter members and citizens.

Kind regards,
 
Aaron Bailey
Director of Membership - BDPA Richmond Chapter
Daytime Phone 804-284-2041
Email naaron.bailey@capitalone.com

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