The Family Business Special Interest Group of USASBE will strengthen family business teaching and research as well as service to the entrepreneurial family firm by providing its membership with innovative pedagogical techniques through a variety of means and by encouraging research and outreach activities and dissemination of the best results.

1. Survey Family Business SIG membership by April 1 to determine who they are and how best the SIG could serve them. Share the results with USASBE leadership and post the results on the website by May 1.
   
   
2. Plan and execute a pre-conference workshop focused on teaching family business with at least 20 attendees.
   
   
3. Support USASBE efforts to explore the possibility of offering certificates for attendance at pre-conference workshops in family business by establishing a SIG committee to develop a certificate proposal and send it to the USASBE board by June 1.
   
   
4. Encourage SIG membership to post videos, syllabi and exercises on the USASBE website with the goal of adding at least 10 video links, 10 exercises and 20 syllabi by November 1.
   
   
5. Increase paper submissions focused on family business to 25 and workshops proposals to 10 by encouraging SIG membership to submit papers and workshops to the 2012 meeting through monthly email reminders and networking, and by supporting member efforts to organize a significant panel discussion at the meeting on intergenerational collaboration in a non-traditional family business.
   
   
6. By September 1, identify and encourage at least three SIG members to take leadership roles of the SIG for 2012 and beyond.
   
   
7. Send a monthly information item to the USASBE V-P of publications for use in the USASBE newsletter. SIG members will be solicited monthly to submit items of interest.