Nutrition Entrepreneurs (NE) DPG

Nutrition Entrepreneurs (NE) DPG

NE members are shaping the future of dietetics by pursuing innovative and creative ways of providing nutrition products and services to consumers, industry, media and businesses. Our mission is to help members achieve their professional and financial potential by providing the tools to build and maintain a successful nutrition-related business.

 
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Nutrition Entrepreneurs (NE) is a dietetic practice group that offers numerous business-related resources for its members including quarterly teleconferences, a cutting-edge newsletter, informational tool kits, national and local meetings, and formal networking opportunities to build and maintain a successful business. Our members are dietitians with diverse entrepreneurial interests including authors, coaches, corporate health specialists, private practitioners and technology experts, as well as those exploring other entrepreneurial possibilities. "NE members share their expertise in private practice and other areas with those wanting to start their own business and those who are well established," says Past Chair Nancy Collins, PhD, RD, LD/N. In keeping with this philosophy, NE has 6 specialty groups: Corporate Health, Private Practice, Authors, Speakers, Internet and Business Technology, and Coaches. Each of these groups offers great opportunities for networking and sharing. 

Additional services offered by NE to support the entrepreneur include:

  • Mini NE meetings around the country to provide the opportunity for entrepreneurs to network, obtain advice and socialize with NE colleagues.
  • 7 Electronic mailing lists where members can exchange information, ideas and opinions.
  • Advertising on NE's web site, www.nedpg.org/, to promote the entrepreneurs' products and services.
  • Quarterly teleconferences on business related topics available to all members.   
  • Mentoring program.
  • Networking events at ADA’s Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE).
  • Outstanding Nutrition Entrepreneur Award.
  • Brand new Student membership rate.
  • Brand new Student Award. 

NE Executive Committee

  • Chair: Lauren Swann, MS, RD, LDN 
  • Chair-elect: Marjorie Geiser, MBA, RD, NSCA-CPT 
  • Past Chair: Robin Plotkin, RD, LD 
  • Secretary: Shelley A. Rael, MS, RD, LD
  • Treasurer: Jennifer Neily, MS, RD, LD

Membership Total:
2,593 (June 2009)

Specialty Groups — Communicating through newsletter articles, electronic mailing lists, conference calls, and an annual meeting at FNCE

  • Corporate Health: Provides support and networking to NE members with a focus or interest in providing wellness and MNT directly to employees with services reimbursed by corporate endorsement.
  •  Internet and Business Technology: Assists NE members with an interest in increasing their presence on the Internet. This might include using the web to generate business to improve client communication or involvement in commercial web sites to improve the quality and accuracy of information communicated.
  • Private Practice: Provides NE members with support and networking for those interested or already practicing as nutrition therapists.
  • Authors: Shares information and provides guidance to their peers and aspiring authors. Through e-mail communication, authors have easy access to mentors who can help them write and promote their books and enhance their writing careers.
  • Speakers: Shares their experiences and helps members improve their speaking and marketing skills.
  • Coaches: Provides a forum for NE members to remain state of the art in the issues relevant to the RD as Coach.

Newsletter Name and Unique Features
Ventures, NE’s quarterly publication: Each themed issue provides inspirational, practical and unique information for nutrition entrepreneurs about business issues including coaching, financial planning, media and business plans and more. Back issues are available for $10 each. For subscription information for interested parties who are ineligible for ADA membership, contact Joanne Gibbons, phone 360/956-1367 or 800/861-9406 or e-mail at nedpg@aol.com.

Other Publications

NE Professional Tool Kit: Practical, comprehensive information handouts on business and practice-related topics:

  • Specialized or Flexible Practice?
  • Where to Hang Your Shingle: Home or Rented Office
  • Discover the choice of Coaching vs. Counseling
  • Creatingand mastering the world of blogging
  • Keeping up with technology 
  • Determining the Cost of Doing Business
  • Setting and Discussing Fees
  • Billing and Accounting
  • Guide to Medicare MNT Benefit
  • Marketing Your Services and Products
  • Marketing Yourself to Health Clubs and Spas: Tips to Get Started
  • Expanding Your Career as a Nutrition Writer
  • What are PDAs?
  • Breaking Into Media and Spokesperson Work

For more information and an order form, visit the NE web site at www.nedpg.org.

Awards, Grants, Scholarships and Stipends (for NE members only)

  • NE Outstanding Nutrition Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
  • NEW NE Professional Development Dietetic Student Award.

    For more information, visit the NE web site at www.nedpg.org/.

Networking, Business Meetings, Continuing Professional Education Events, Receptions

  • Mini NE-meetings around the country. Local NE meetings are held providing the opportunity to network and share with colleagues. For meetings in your area visit the NE website, Members-Only section. If you would like to hold a meeting, email Joanne Gibbons at nedpg@aol.com for a list of members in your area.
  • Specialty group conference calls are held several times a year.
  • Enhance and Promote ADA’s Strategic Plan and Campaigns

Member Goals
Many of the above mentioned products, services and events support ADA’s member goals.

Public Policy Goals
The NE Reimbursement Chair attends the ADA Public Policy Workshop and communicates updates to DPG members via articles in the newsletter and the NE web site.