Jul 15, 2010 through Jul 18, 2010

Clifford Bell, Senior Business Counselor - Small Business Development Center

Securing Your Future-Planning For Retirement
Brother Clifford Bell, author of A Full Life, has more than 55 years of experience in church, public, business and community involvement in Buffalo, N.Y., and around the world. Over the years, his roles have included businessman, poet, father, grandfather, philosopher, community leader, counselor and selfless contributor. Most of the community knows Bell for his work as a Buffalo, N.Y., City Council member, but his activities have extended to several different areas, including business and church organizations.

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Darrin Strickland - Darrin Strickland Organizational Management

Basic Grant Writing and Management
As a seasoned consultant of Organizational Management, Grant Writing and Public/Media Communications, Darrin M. Strickland has over 19 years of real world experience and passion of serving on neighborhood/community, city of Buffalo, Erie County and State of New York boards and working for various, established non-profits organizations. Darrin has coordinated and collaborated with staff members, board of directors, clients, and public/private foundations and administrators to research, develop, and prepare grant proposals that advance the mission and goals of the organization/project. Becoming more efficient and effective to attain goals and objectives is his core belief.

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Elliott T. Boyce,Sr - Investigator - New York State Police

Off-Duty and Plainclothes Police Encounters
Elliot T. Boyce, Sr. has been an outstanding asset to the New York State Police for the twenty-three plus years he has been with the organization. He began his career with the New York State Police in 1987, stationed at SP Oneida – Troop D Headquarters in Oneida, New York, as a Trooper. In 1996, he was appointed to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation as an Investigator, where he was assigned to the Community Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET), working undercover throughout much of the Central, Southern and Western New York areas. In 1998, Investigator Boyce was cross-designated a U.S. Customs Officer by the U.S. Department of Treasury. In addition, Investigator Boyce was assigned to New York State Police Division Headquarters, Planning and Research section to assist with the establishment of Minimum Standards for Gun Locking Devices and Combined Ballistic Identification System (CoBIS), a pistol and revolver ballistic databank. He has also served as a New York State Police Recruiter in an effort to maintain and increase diversity within the ranks of the NYSP. In the spring of 2004, Investigator Boyce successfully completed Crisis Negotiations School to join the elite group of New York State Police Crisis Negotiators.

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Patrick W. Welch, Director - Erie County Veterans Services

Law Enforcement and Veterans
Dr. Welch, the Director of Erie County Veterans Services in Buffalo, NY is an adjunct professor at Daemen College and has been an international hospitality industry executive for the past 44 years. A former US Marine Corps Infantry Squad Leader in Vietnam, he serves as chair of the Government Affairs Committee and a nationally elected member of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Veterans of America. He holds degrees from Rochville University, the University of Buffalo, and Niagara Community College

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