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    <title>NC Association of Fire Chiefs upcoming events</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:51:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Sponsorship Registration for NCAFC Regional Workshops (03/21/2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;p data-pm-slice="1 1 []" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 25px;" color="#5483C4"&gt;PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;" color="#5483C4"&gt;to Members of the&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;" color="#5483C4"&gt;NC Association of Fire Chiefs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;The NC Association of Fire Chiefs, in coordination with NCSFA and OSFM, will be hosting &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#5483C4"&gt;Business Functions for Non-Profit Fire Departments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; workshops&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;in each region&lt;/strong&gt; this year. These workshops will be taught by an HR professional, accountant, and an attorney who are subject matter experts in non-profit fire department business functions. &lt;em&gt;The workshop is free for NCAFC members.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We expect 50-100 Chief Officers and Board Members at each workshop.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 25px;" color="#5483C4"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 25px;" color="#5483C4"&gt;THREE SPONSORSHIP LEVELS&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Please Note:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Sponsorships are for&lt;/font&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;one of the three&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;regional workshop dates (listed at the bottom). On your registration form, you will select which workshop date you would like to sponsor.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p data-pm-slice="1 1 []" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 20px;" color="#000000"&gt;GOLD&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;$5,000&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;10 Mins of Speaking Time&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Display Your Promotional Materials&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Verbal Recognition&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Logo (Linked to Website) Listed at Bottom of&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Registration Page&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 20px;" color="#000000"&gt;SILVER&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;$3,000&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Display Your Promotional Materials&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Verbal Recognition&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Logo (Linked to Website) Listed at Bottom of&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Registration Page&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 20px;" color="#000000"&gt;BRONZE&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;$1,000&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Verbal Recognition&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000"&gt;Logo (Linked to Website) Listed at Bottom of&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Registration Page&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p data-pm-slice="1 1 []" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 25px;" color="#5483C4"&gt;WORKSHOP DATES&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EASTERN REGION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#808080"&gt;Took Place Saturday, March 21st&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIEDMONT REGION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;Saturday, July 11th&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;9 AM - 5 PM&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;Location: Forsyth Technical Community College&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="https://membercenter.ncafc.com/event-6690219" target="_blank"&gt;Attendee Registration Page &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WESTERN REGION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;Saturday, September 19th&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;9 AM - 5 PM&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;Location: Haywood Community College&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="https://membercenter.ncafc.com/event-6690224" target="_blank"&gt;Attendee Registration Page &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 20px;" color="#5483C4"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 20px;" color="#5483C4"&gt;Questions?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Feel free to contact our support team:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;1-888-50-CHIEF (2-4433) opt. 1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:support@ncafc.com"&gt;&lt;em&gt;support@ncafc.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.​​&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <link>https://membercenter.ncafc.com/event-6589708</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Business Functions for Non-Profit Departments (Piedmont Region) (07/11/2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;" align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="https://membercenter.ncafc.com/resources/Pictures/iStock-183321983.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 style="margin-bottom: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;font face="helvetica-w01-roman, helvetica-w02-roman, helvetica-lt-w10-roman, sans-serif" style="font-size: 24px;"&gt;Business Functions for Non-Profit Departments (Piedmont Region)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;h4 style="margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font face="helvetica-w01-roman, helvetica-w02-roman, helvetica-lt-w10-roman, sans-serif" color="#BD8D46"&gt;FREE to NCAFC Members (&lt;a href="https://www.ncafc.com/join" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Join Today for Only $5&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;0)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top:0px !important;margin-bottom:0px !important;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 style="margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font face="helvetica-w01-roman, helvetica-w02-roman, helvetica-lt-w10-roman, sans-serif"&gt;Saturday, July 11th | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Forsyth Technical Community College&lt;br&gt;
Northwest Forsyth Center&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;3111 Big Oaks Drive&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;King, NC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The NC Association of Fire Chiefs, in coordination with NCSFA and OSFM, will be hosting Business Functions for Non-Profit Fire Departments Classes in each region this year. These classes will be taught by an HR professional, accountant, and an attorney who are subject matter experts in non-profit fire department business functions. Learn from these experts all that you need to know to operate the business functions of a non-profit fire department in 2026 in North Carolina. There will also be time for you to have all of your questions answered.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These classes are FREE to members of the NC Association of Fire Chiefs, however pre-registration is required.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <link>https://membercenter.ncafc.com/event-6690219</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Business Functions for Non-Profit Departments (Western Region) (09/19/2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;" align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="https://membercenter.ncafc.com/resources/Pictures/iStock-183321983.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 style="margin-bottom: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;font face="helvetica-w01-roman, helvetica-w02-roman, helvetica-lt-w10-roman, sans-serif" style="font-size: 24px;"&gt;Business Functions for Non-Profit Departments (Western Region)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;h4 style="margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font face="helvetica-w01-roman, helvetica-w02-roman, helvetica-lt-w10-roman, sans-serif" color="#BD8D46"&gt;FREE to NCAFC Members (&lt;a href="https://www.ncafc.com/join" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Join Today for Only $5&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;0)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top:0px !important;margin-bottom:0px !important;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 style="margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font face="helvetica-w01-roman, helvetica-w02-roman, helvetica-lt-w10-roman, sans-serif"&gt;Saturday, September 19th | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haywood Community College&lt;br&gt;
Hemlock Building / Lower Level Auditorium&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;185 Freedlander Drive&lt;br&gt;
Clyde, NC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The NC Association of Fire Chiefs, in coordination with NCSFA and OSFM, will be hosting Business Functions for Non-Profit Fire Departments Classes in each region this year. These classes will be taught by an HR professional, accountant, and an attorney who are subject matter experts in non-profit fire department business functions. Learn from these experts all that you need to know to operate the business functions of a non-profit fire department in 2026 in North Carolina. There will also be time for you to have all of your questions answered.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These classes are FREE to members of the NC Association of Fire Chiefs, however pre-registration is required.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;" color="#BD8D46"&gt;BRONZE SPONSOR&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.lifewaytoday.org/blank" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;" color="#BD8D46"&gt;&lt;img src="https://membercenter.ncafc.com/resources/Pictures/lifewayhealth1.png" alt="" title="" border="0" width="320" height="97"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <link>https://membercenter.ncafc.com/event-6690224</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>2026 Chief Officers Executive Development Program (09/21/2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src="https://membercenter.ncafc.com/resources/Pictures/484807794_1063280249156588_5744269742169325141_n.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hosted by Winterville Fire-Rescue-EMS Department and Pitt Community College&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#851D0F"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DATES:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#313A3D"&gt;WEEK 1:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;September 21 - 25, 2026&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font color="#313A3D" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;WEEK 2:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;October 26 – 30, 2026&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#74140C" style="font-size: 18px;" face="helvetica-w01-roman, sans-serif"&gt;COST:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 17px;" color="#4C585D" face="helvetica-w01-roman, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;NCAFC Member&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;- $600 (Member Login Required)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;font style="font-size: 17px;" color="#4C585D" face="helvetica-w01-roman, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Non-Member&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;- $7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 17px;" color="#4C585D" face="helvetica-w01-roman, sans-serif"&gt;00 (&lt;font color="#851D0F"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.ncafc.com/join"&gt;Join Now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;amp; Save!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Membership open to all Fire Service Officers &amp;amp; Professionals)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a preliminary application subject to approval, with no payment required at this time. If approved, you will then be registered and invoiced for payment, based on my NCAFC membership status.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click &lt;font color="#9E0B0F"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.ncafc.com/2026-executive-development-program" target="_blank"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt; for full event details&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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