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Dear Members

September marks the end of Summer and also the end of your chapter's Leadership. On October 1st your chapters will have new leaders, who volunteer to lead your chapter and help it thrive. We want to thank all of our chapters' leaders who contributed so much time and hard work in your chapter's growth. Please make sure that you thank them and acknowledge their contribution to you.
Thank you leaders - you make a difference.

We have so many things to celebrate these last 12 months - First we want to celebrate the 3 chapters that joined our region this year. BNI Chevy Chase Online Exchange, BNI National Harbor and BNI Commanders. We are so excited to celebrate your gains.
Since October 1st, 2021 our members have created $15,660,861 in Thank you for Closed Business - Wow!

Our New Leaders are going to join our Live Training tomorrow, Thursday, September 8, 2-4pm. Here is the link. Your chapters' President will share with us their vision for your chapter, and the chapter's goals by October 1st, 2023; How many members in the chapter, how many members in the Green and Grey in the Power of One report and the Annual Thank you for closed business for the chapter. We cannot wait to hear their shares.

Our Regional Vision for the coming year:
"Grow Our Thriving Community". What does Grow mean to you????

Kudos for creating $ 1,604,428 in Thank You for Closed Business in August 2022. A special thank you to the biggest givers in the region:

BNI Alliance	Michael Richards	$ 111,196.00
BNI Wealth Builders	Jeffrey McEvoy	$ 107,187.00
BNI Alliance	Alex Heitkemper	$ 106,966.00
BNI Capital Business Alliance	Trinh Le	$ 46,140.00
BNI Capital Business Alliance	Brian Loebig	$ 37,619.00
BNI Alliance	Barry Hillocks	$ 34,120.00
BNI Bethesda Business	Steven Feys	$ 32,779.00
BNI High Energy Lunch Bunch	Dan Helhowski	$ 29,247.00
BNI Bethesda Business	Christian Zamora	$ 29,060.00
BNI Wealth Builders	Mary Ann Aellen	$ 28,693.00
BNI Bethesda Business	Guy Brami	$ 25,025.00
BNI High Energy Lunch Bunch	Marc Sushner	$ 24,000.00
BNI Bethesda Business	Justin McCarty	$ 23,000.00
BNI Breakfast of Business Champions	Cameron Dorsey	$ 22,008.00
BNI Breakfast of Business Champions	Gail Kahan	$ 19,449.00
BNI Bethesda Business	Greg Ford	$ 19,250.00
BNI Networking Partners	Scott Speier	$ 18,985.00
BNI Solution Providers	Tommy Gray	$ 14,700.00
BNI Capital Business Alliance	Cristin Caine	$ 14,550.00
BNI Breakfast of Business Champions	Debra Friedman	$ 14,500.00
BNI Bethesda Business	Gary Altman	$ 13,414.00
BNI Capital Business Alliance	David Goldberg	$ 12,174.00
BNI Solution Providers	Ian Ford	$ 12,000.00
BNI Solution Providers	David Zeff	$ 11,725.00
BNI Commanders	Dennis Peters	$ 10,850.00
BNI High Energy Lunch Bunch	Lee Gochman	$ 10,000.00
BNI Wealth Builders	Sage Harper	$ 10,000.00

Congratulations to the people who
scored 100% in the
Power of One Report

Nancy Alert	BNI National Harbor
Eric Smalls	BNI Chevy Chase Game Changers
Trinh Le	BNI Capital Business Alliance

Brian Loebig	BNI Capital Business Alliance
Mary Ann Aellen	BNI Wealth Builders

For the complete report, please click here.

The Power of One is our method to keep accountability. In the month of August the majority of our region has been in the Green/Yellow! That's a great achievement. Way to go! Some members have excelled in their activity and scored 100 in The Power of One.

Thank you to all who sponsored new members in the month of August! Sponsoring a new member is an opportunity to help another business owner to grow their business and develop. Inviting them to BNI can be the biggest gift that you can give.

Special thanks to our Regional Leaders - the Volunteers who play BIG and are Givers

Our Regional Directors: Ann Brennan, Brian Loebig, Katrina Schlothauer, Nicoletta Pichardo, Wil Graham

Our Regional Ambassadors: Diamond Chaflawee, Frances Shefter, Jason Weil, Pamela Vines, Reshma Bourne, Sara Evans, Scott Chen, Trinh Le

Upcoming Events

September 8th - 2:00 pm - Regional New Leaders Live Training - Register here
September 12th - 9:00 am - New Member Orientation - Register here
September 14th - 3:00 pm - DEI Panel: Intersectionality: Embracing Identities - Register here
September 15th - 7:15 am - BNI Alliance Visitor Day - Register here
September 22nd - 12:00 pm - BNI Mid-County Connectors Visitors Day - Register here
September 23rd - 1:00 pm - September Business Book Club - Register here
September 27th - 7:30 am - BNI Chevy Chase Online Exchange Visitors Day - Register here

Weekly events
"Launch New BNI Chapter" Interest Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 am - Register here
National BNI Speed Networking every Tuesday at 4:00 pm - Register here
BNI Connect: Deep Dive for Members/Leaders every Wednesday at 12 pm- Register here
BNI Global 3+1 Webinar every Wednesday at 9:00 am - Register here

For regional events please check our calendar here.

Thank you to all the leaders in the region. We had an amazing year and are looking forward to celebrating your journey. Let us "Grow Our Thriving Community" this year.
Keep up the great work

Sarit Arbell

Congratulations to the people who scored 100% in the Power of One Report

Upcoming Events

Congratulations to the people who
scored 100% in the
Power of One Report