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Welcome to the official website of the Houston Chapter of The National Association of Black Accountants, Inc! We are part of a nationwide professional association with the primary purpose of developing, encouraging and serving as a resource for greater participation by African-Americans and other minorities.

Next Event!!!

NABA Jazz & Juice Membership Reception

Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Place: The Downtown Club at Plaza
Address:
910 Louisiana
49th Floor of One Shell Plaza
Houston,TX 77002

Time: 6:00 to 8:30 PM

Free parking in the garage after 5:00 p.m. Enter the garage from Walker St.

A message from the president

Hello to my extended NABA Houston family and friends!  I am extremely excited about fiscal year 2010.  For those of you that weren’t able to join us in New Orleans last month, Houston members in attendance did a wonderful job generating buzz and excitement about next year’s National Convention.  Locally, I would like to continue that enthusiasm and momentum and forge new and stronger relationships with Corporate Partners, other organizations, and our Community in general.

Over the coming year, in addition to our regular general body meetings, we intend to hold an event or function every month.  Later this month your incoming Board will be meeting for our annual Planning Summit and we will iron out a comprehensive calendar that will highlight these events.

For those of you that attended the Ernst and Young sponsored event last month, you have an idea of the types of things we have in store for 2010.  We intend to offer more opportunities for professional development and continuing education, and increased opportunities and exposure for networking and mentorship.

From July 12th - 17th, we hosted our inaugural Accounting Careers Awareness Program (ACAP) on the campus of Texas Southern University.  The Program affords us the opportunity to strengthen the local NABA pipeline by reaching High School students with aspirations of studying Accounting in college.  I encourage those of you that have the time to touch base with Candice Elliott our ACAP organizer at acap@nabahouston.org for additional information about the Program and next year’s plans.

Last year we made huge strides to increase communication through email blasts and keeping our web-site current.  This year we intend to continue to improve that process to share information timely, and we intend to use the web even more with Facebook and similar platforms.

On August 19th we will be hosting our annual membership reception (at the Plaza Club).  I would like to see the familiar faces, but I would also like to encourage each of you to bring a friend or colleague that may like what we have to offer and consider joining.  In addition, I would really like each of us to reach out to past members that may not have been involved with the organization recently.  Houston is the fourth largest city in America, and there’s no reason why our membership can’t exceed the magical ceiling of 200 members this year.

Again, thank you for the opportunity to serve as the Chapter’s President.  I am very excited about the road we have ahead of us and optimistic about our future.

Sincerely,

Gene Padgett
Houston Chapter President