Engaging our community partners is extremely important to ensuring the continued success of Florida DECA. Annually, our organization partners with hundreds of organizations to provide you a better experience. However, the impacts from these organizations aren't always provided directly to our members or maximized. Over the past year, our state officer team has taken time to build relationships with a collection of different organizations on our Advocacy Board. These relationships can be leveraged to find ways to better assist our chapters. For example, one of our organizations, the Florida Public Relations Association, has thousands of members across the state that they've volunteered to help out at our chapters. This connection hasn't properly been utilized to help any chapters, yet. I hope to change this situation and ones like it to give back to our members.Â