Supplier News:
Henry Kenuam to CEO, Engage, a web and mobile solutions provider. He is co-founder and was chief technology officer.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston had exemplary ratings in the 2016 edition of U.S. News and World Report – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” Twenty-two different practices were ranked at the national level, as well as 23 in Baltimore, 11 in Washington and two in Roanoke, Va. The nonprofit practices in Baltimore and DC were honored.
Tampa (Fla.) Convention Center will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Nov. 13. TCC hosts more than 300 events each year. The center features 600,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, including a 200,000-sq. ft. exhibit hall, a ballroom that can accommodate more than 2,000 guests and 36 meeting rooms for breakout functions.
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass., with Centerplate, the MMC’s food service partner, and Spectra Venue Management, which manages the MMC, donated 10 $1,000 contributions to several organizations.
DC Coast, a popular restaurant for business lunches and dinners in Washington, announced it will close on Dec. 31 after 17 years. The restaurant anchored the rebirth of the nation’s capital’s 14th Street corridor, and was popular with lobbyists and other executives.
Direct Marketing Association of Washington announced its DMAW and DMAW/EF 2015 award recipients, including Rick Powell, CEO of the PMG Group as the DMAW Hall of Leaders Award. For the complete list, click here. www.dmaw.org.
The Blackbaud Index today reported that overall charitable giving to nonprofits decreased 3.5 percent and online giving increased 7.5 percent for the three months ending September 2015 as compared to the same period in 2014. Details: www.blackbaud.com/blackbaudindex.
Technology Association of Oregon (TAO) will make available ZOOM+ Performance Health Insurance to TAO member companies. The innovative arrangement provides TAO technology member companies in the tri-county area with the option to buy ZOOM+ Performance Health Insurance at attractive, large company pricing regardless of size.
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Congratulations:
Among the 28 new members to the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee is Brian C. Toohey, EVP of DEKA Research and Development Corp. and the former CEO of the Semiconductor Industry Association.
Ten nonprofits that made Target Marketing’s 2015 Top 50 Mailers report:
1 ASPCA
2 AARP
3 Wounded Warrior Project
4 Republican National Committee
5 World Wildlife Fund
6 Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.
7 Salvation Army
8 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
9 Humane Society of the U.S.
10 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Association News:
International Congress and Convention Association’s new five-year strategic plan, launched before the recent ICCA 2015 Congress in Buenos Aires, focusses on improving the success and value of association meetings and on increasing the effectiveness of ICCA’s relationship with association executives and meeting planners. The plan includes a new vision "to shape the future and value of international association meetings. "ICCA CEO Martin Sirk said: “ICCA should not simply be an observer or an extractor of data from what’s going on in the international association field. This vision places us as a key actor at the heart of what’s going on in the sector. It implies that we will be much more active in helping international associations extract value from their events and to help those meetings deliver the outcomes that the associations are striving for.”
Also, ICCA launched another extension of its Big Data Search tool, which allows suppliers to the international association meetings industry to find potential sponsors for the meetings they organise. The new tool analyses what sponsors have been involved in past or future confirmed events. As a result, 16,000 unique sponsors are identified who have high potential to be a sponsor of new events. Details: www.iccaworld.org.
Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association hired AMC Coulter for full-service management, effective Nov. 1. Coulter VP Amy Lotz, CAE, is the new HCEA executive director.
Professional Convention Management Association Global Medical Meetings Summit will begin Nov. 12 at the Scottish Exhibition and Convention Centre in Glasgow, then head to Gleneagles Hotel, and conclude at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The invitation-only event has attracted the leaders in global medical meetings, with representatives from the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Societe Internationale d’Urologie, American Thyroid Association, World Allergy Association, American College of Emergency Physicians, Scoliosis Research Society and American College of Genetics and Genomics.
The Professional Women in Advocacy annual conference will be Nov. 16-17 at the Marriott Metro Center in Washington. To register, click here.
Baseball Writers’ Association of America is considering whether writers for the Major League Baseball website may join the association. The decision could have come as early as the weekend when the New York Mets hosted the World Series at Citi Field. But not enough writers were at the World Series for a full-scale meeting on the topic. The overwhelming consensus was to table the issue until the annual winter meetings in Nashville. At issue is a 2006 addition to the association’s constitution that made writers for MLB.com ineligible for membership in the association. The proposed change would eliminate the 2006 provision and leave it up to each association chapter to decide whether to accept an applicant for membership.
A $1.5 billion suit over false advertising case has been brought against the Corn Refiners Association and several of its members. The lawsuit alleges that the CRA has promoted corn syrup as corn sugar, while describing it as "natural" and "nutritionally the same as sugar." The defendants’ lawyer argued that one is crystal, the other is liquid versions of sugar.