MESSAGE FROM BONG R. OSORIO, PRSP President-Elect 2014 -2015 Dear PRSP Colleagues: Greetings! First, I would like to thank the President’s Council for their wisdom in addressing the issues that stalled the elections last 16 January 2014. Pursuant to the Advice made by the Presidents’ Council (Annex A), the Board of Directors met last night, 29 January 2014 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. to elect the officers of the Board of PRSP. Your PRSP officials are: RAMON R. OSORIO – President EDWIN P. GALVEZ – Vice President, Internal RONALDO F. JABAL – Vice President, External MA. LOURDES N. TIQUIA – Secretary JURIS UMALI SOLIMAN – Treasurer LOURDES S. DE GUZMAN (APR) – Internal Auditor MARIA LOURDES L. ESPINA (APR) – Director ROCHELLE G. HILARIO – Director DR. DANTE M. VELASCO (APR) - Director We had a productive meeting where your Board passed eight (8) Resolutions: Resolution No. - Subject - Action Taken 2014-1-29-1 COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD AND APPROVED ELECTION OF OFFICERS, 2014-2015 (Resignation of Tiquia not accepted; Directors for 2014-2015; Resignation of Dalupan accepted; Tie broken by Resignation of Dalupan; Final Directors) 2014-1-29-2 ELECTION OF OFFICERS, 2014-2015 APPROVED 2014-1-29-3 APR ACCREDITATION APPROVED (Reappoint the previous chair of Board; Seed APR in the Committee; Invite a chair and ten members for APR Committee and Submit the names of the non-APR Directors to the Accreditation Committee) 2014-1-29-4 AUTHORIZED SIGNATORIES TO THE APPROVED DEPOSITORY ACCOUNTS OF PRSP 2014-1-29-5 REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE BOARD APPROVED (First meeting of the 2014-2015 Board scheduled on 4 February 2014 with agenda on transition between outgoing and incoming Board and official turn-over of all documents) 2014-1-29-6 STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES, APPROVED 2014-2015 2014-1-29-7 AD-HOC COMMITTEE FOR THE PERMANENT APPROVED HOUSING OF PRSP 2014-1-29-8 STRATEGIC PLANNING AND APPROVED FELLOWSHIP NIGHT (31 January 2014 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Linden Hotel) Pursuant to our commitment to transparency and accountability as well as running the affairs of our Society in a professional manner, all members will be receiving updates from your officers. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any of your officers on suggestions and proposals. We have open shop and our door will remain open to all. This is our Society and we should claim it. If there are problems along the way, we will also inform you so together we can find solutions to it and move forward. We will be sending invites to some of you for the chair and members of the Accreditation Committee and our advisers. As we rise up to the challenge, we hope you can join us and build a better PRSP. We will likewise communicate with regulatory agencies on matters affecting our organization so that we settle things and get our acts together. Moving forward, your officers will have a strategic planning on 31 January 2013 since our Fiscal Year begins 1 February 2014. I want to share with you my 12-point plan, which I have shared to the Board: 1. Stronger membership engagement and participation (increase presence in GMMs and all PRSP events, carefully chosen topics and speakers in GMMs); 2. PR for PRSP (heightened projection and publicity of PRSP activities and projects in appropriate media); 3. Identification of social responsibility engagement; 4. Professional Development (3 to 4 activities for the year: PR in the New Media Environment, Crisis Response Planning & Management, PR as a Management Function); 5. PR Congress (Relevant to the times topics, high caliber speakers, increased number of registrants); 6. Student Congress (Increased number of school participation, encourage other schools to participate, more relevant competition piece, tighter selection of judges and competition judging); 7. Anvil Awards (It’s the 50th year of the Anvil. Aim for bigger participation, and bigger awards show; consider other peripheral activities like the Anvil book – a collection of 50 Grand Anvils written as case studies that can be used as reference materials in schools offering PR and other related courses); 8. Accreditation (form accreditation and ethics committee, identify APR candidates, implement procedural activities and identify date for APR conferment); 9. Buy the PRSP office; 10. Identify ways and means activities to add up to traditional sources of funds; 11. Better fiscal management and reporting (transparency in all disbursements and reporting); and 12. Initiate discussion with other PR and related groups (IABC, IPRA, LCF, Ad Foundation, etc.) in the creation of the PR BOARD. Our PRSP will be 57 this coming 19 February 2014. Let us all join hands in making our 57th truly an inspiring one. Thank you very much on behalf of your officers. And see you at the ANVIL Awards ceremonies on February 26, 2014 at Solaire as well as our first GMM in March 2014. Very truly yours, BONG R. OSORIO President-Elect 2014-2015 Board
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:41:05 +0000