{"id":362259,"date":"2026-07-06T00:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362259\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:52:13","slug":"plano-chamber-of-commerce-accepting-applications-for-leadership-plano-program-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362259\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano Chamber of Commerce accepting applications for Leadership Plano program | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leadership Plano Class 33 members present donation to Lovepacs Director Jenni Tran (fifth from left). From left, Carole Greisdorf, Melissa Sauvage, Angie Pace, Bron Austin Deal, Tran, Charlie Kenney, Ann Whiteman, Angela Fisher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\nThe Leadership Plano program is accepting applications for its next class, which starts in September. The class will be the 34th group to graduate from the nine-month program, which is a partnership between the Plano Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Plano.
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\nFounded in 1983, Leadership Plano\u00a0focuses on leadership styles and techniques while exploring\u00a0different aspects of the local community, including\u00a0education, local businesses, economic development, health, human services, the criminal justice system, arts and government.
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\n“The future success of Plano depends heavily on the leadership from our elected officials, community leaders, nonprofit organizations and businesses,” said Jamee Jolly, president and CEO of the Plano Chamber of Commerce. “Leadership Plano takes an in-depth look at what makes Plano unique, the challenges we face as growing community and how individuals can find a place to plug in and connect.”
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\nAs part of the chamber’s\u00a0program, each graduating\u00a0class adopts a local nonprofit organization to support with time and resources to give back to the Plano community. On May 19, Leadership Plano Class 33 presented its gift to Lovepacs,\u00a0a local non-profit organization that provides boxes of food to families in need over the extended school breaks. The class collected enough food to feed 120 children in Plano.\u00a0Sen.\u00a0Van Taylor, R-Plano, attended the presentation to show support for Lovepacs and to thank Leadership Plano for its\u00a0contribution to\u00a0the community.
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\nIn addition to the food donation, a monetary donation in the amount of $1,400 was also added. Classmates Angie Pace and Anne Whiteman presented Lovepacs with the cash donations from their employers, PepsiCo and Thackeray Partners. Board member Gayle Smith also received a donation from Custer Road United Methodist Church\u00a0for the nonprofit.
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\nThe class kicked the project off by delivering 350 boxes to area schools in March for spring break.\u00a0Class 33 members, who graduate from the program June 2, also plan to continue to support Lovepacs on an ongoing basis.
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\n\u201cLovepacs is an impressive organization, who works hard to feed Plano\u2019s chronically hungry children,” said Melissa Sauvage, project co-chair. “Leadership Plano Class 33 and members of Leadership Plano\u2019s board were honored to support and contribute to their important mission. \u00a0We encourage others to join us in supporting this important cause.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Leadership Plano program is accepting applications for its next class, which starts in September. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,128494,162,161],"class_list":["post-362259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-chamber-of-commerce-accepting-applications-for-leadership-plano-program","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}